Touch Modes
Ribbons has a number of playful Touch Modes that can
be activated momentarily or latched. Touch Modes can
interact with all of the other stereo tape eects.
The functionality of the Touch footswitch depends on
which mode is selected. The T1 and T2 knobs on
page 4 provide controls. To change between Touch
Modes, hold down the push button and press Touch.
The Touch LED lights up to indicate your Touch Mode:
• Magnetic Dance (green) — A granular micro-looper
that you can tune to chords and play forward or
backwards. You can use it to freeze a grain of audio or
create stunning drones to play along with.
• Tape Stop (dark blue) —Slows down and bends the
pitch of your audio, then picks it back up, with controls
for stop and start times up to 10 seconds.
• Broken Machine (light blue) — Makes a garbled mess
of your incoming audio. Use it subtly for some
added tape modulation or at extreme settings for
rewind eects.
• Repeater (ickering green) — Endlessly repeats a tiny
loop that you can divide into smaller subdivisions for
glitchy eects. Includes a Resampling option that can
sample new audio when transients are detected.
• Crushed Cassette (ickering dark blue) — Provides
continuously variable sample rate reduction as well as
bit crushing down to 4-bits with μ-law companding.
• Disintegration Loop (ickering light blue) — An
experimental looper that disintegrates and
transforms your sounds over time.
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