Lo-Fi Emulation
- Tape modulation effects (wow, flutter, crinkle, dropouts) carefully modeled after spectral and waveform data collected from numerous functioning and non-functioning tape players.
- Dedicated dry/wet mix to dial in complex vibrato and chorus sounds.
- 24dB/octave, four-pole virtual analog low-pass and high-pass filters modeled after the filter of a classic 1970’s synthesizer.
- Compression inspired by a vinyl simulator found in a famous sampler from the early 2000’s.
- Static tape hiss and clicks & pops.
Reverb
- A beautiful stereo reverb designed from scratch, with controls for wet/dry mix, decay time, and where the reverb goes in your signal chain (pre or post tape effects).
- Capable of infinite sustain.
Touch Modes
- Four playful performance modes that can be activated momentarily or latched, and interact with all of the stereo tape effects:
- Magnetic Dance – Creates a drone of sound using a micro-loop. Tune it to chords; play it forward or backwards.
- Tape Stop – Slows down and bends the pitch of your audio in real-time, then picks it back up, with separate controls for stop and start times up to 10 seconds.
- Broken Machine – Makes a garbled mess of your incoming audio. Use subtly for some added tape modulation or at extreme settings for rewind effects.
- Repeater – Captures a small slice of audio and divides into tiny subdivisions for glitchy effects. Synchronizable via MIDI clock. Includes a resampling option that can sample new audio by detecting transients.
- Crushed Cassette – Provides continuously variable sample rate reduction as well as bit depth reduction down to 4 bits with µ-law companding.
- Disintegration Loop – An experimental looper with controls for loop decay, speed, and direction. Each time your loop repeats, it gets re-run through all of the tape effects.
Presets, MIDI Control, CV
- Use 8 onboard preset slots to save your settings, or queue them up using your favorite preset device.
- All parameters are fully controllable via MIDI, CV, or an expression pedal.
- Directly compatible with all of your favorite MIDI controllers – no external MIDI box required.
- Internal jumpers available to switch between TRS MIDI A, B, or CBA.
- CV control up to 500Hz.
- Download our handy Max for Live devices to control Ribbons via MIDI using Ableton.
Four-Track Looper, Sine Wave Synth
- Four-track looper mode
- Allows up to four stereo loops
- Length per loop: 40 seconds at 0.5x speed, 20 seconds at 1x speed, 10 seconds at 2x speed
- Each loop has separate controls for: playback direction (forward or backwards), playback speed (continuously variable from 0.5x to 2x), track volume, and track speed scale (quantization).
- Synchronizable via MIDI clock.
- Overdubbing possible at any speed.
- Looped sounds can be processed by the tape effects.
- Allows up to four stereo loops
- Four-voice sine wave synthesizer
- Connect your favorite MIDI controller and start playing.
- +/- 5 semitone pitch bending.
- Includes controls for attack and release.
- Synth voices can be modified by the tape effects and used in looper mode.
