Fractal Audio FX8 - Spillover

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SPILLOVER
Spillover allows delay and reverb tails to ring out when an eect is bypassed or when you change scxenes
or presets. This section covers how to set up spillover in dierent scenarios.
WHEN MANUALLY BYPASSING OR CHANGING SCENES
This is easy and requires only one setting change. For tails to ring when an individual eect is bypassed by a
scene change, simply change its BYPASS MODE to “MUTE FX IN.”
If an eect is set to parallel, use “MUTE IN” instead.
WHEN CHANGING PRESETS
Setting up spillover that works across dierent presets is a bit more involved. The rst step is to set the
SPILLOVER setting on the SETTINGS page of the GLOBAL menu (page 62) to determine whether Delays,
Reverbs, or “BOTH” will spill over when you change presets. (“Delay” does not include Multi-Delay or
Megatap blocks).
When you want spillover to happen between presets, you also need to ensure that the same delay or reverb
blocks exist in each of them. These need to be the same block and the same INSTANCE (i.e. Delay 1 spills
only through Delay 1 and Delay 2 spills only through Delay 2).
Ideally, the corresponding blocks in each preset should have the same settings as well. This is because the
moment you change to a new preset, the parameter settings for its blocks “take over” processing the tails.
If you change from a preset where delay has a time of 500 ms to one where the time is 100 ms, the tails will
be “inserted” into the new eect and be heard as 100 ms echoes (with possible glitches if certain settings
change). For spillover to work perfectly then, the pair(s) of blocks in both “starting” and “landing” presets
must have essentially identical settings and be placed in similar routing architectures. You would hear quite
a sudden dierence in the tail, for instance, if a delay was placed after a clean amp in the rst preset and in
front of a heavily overdriven amp in the second.
Bypass states and
BYPASS MODE settings must also be considered. Switching from a preset where delay or
reverb is engaged to one where it is bypassed with a BYPASS MODE setting of “MUTE FX OUT” will prevent
the tails from being heard. Switching to a preset where the block is bypassed with a setting of “MUTE FX IN”
however, will cleverly allow the tails to ring while material you play after the preset change will be heard
without the eect. See page ask for more on BYPASS MODE.
For a simple spillover preset experiment, create a preset, then save an exact copy to a new
location and test spillover. Then begin making changes as needed to settings outside of the
blocks you want to spill over.