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6.1.4 Control Area
In the Control area, on the right in the Effect Window’s upper section you can select one of
the Macro Controls and dene how the effect should react to the arriving control information.
You can regulate two parameters: Depth control ne-tunes the modulation depth, that is, the
intensity affecting the incoming control information. The depth of this modulation can be
regulated through the several Sensitivity controls, which will be described in the next para-
graph. The Lag controls determine the sluggishness with which the effect parameters react
to the control information.
You can use the Macro Control function to modulate certain parameters depending on the
effect type, for example the delay time in the types Multitap and Echoes. Related details can
be found in the following section.
You can assign the parameters of each effect type in the Master section independently of
special parameters to a Macro Control. Right-click and select the desired Macro Control from
the context menu.
6.1.5 Modulation and Sensitivity Control
The Sensitivity controls limit the signals received via Macro Control to a certain value. With
the Sensitivity controls sitting in the column Ctrl Sens, you can set the inuence of the control
signal on the parameter value.
This can be best explained through an example: In case of the Effect type Echoes the set-
tings could be:
• Master Time control = 0.5 second
• Time control Echo 1 = 50%
• Sensitivity control Echo 1 = 75%
This has the following consequence: Echo 1 has a delay of 50% of the value of half a second
set in the Master Time control, i.e. 0.25 second. The modulation signal received through the
Macro Control can change this value to 75% (that is: 0.25*0.75 = 0.1875 second). Hence, the
minimum delay value that can be reached via the control signal is 0.25 - 0.1875 = 0.0625
second. If you click on the Inversion switch, the parameters act in exactly the opposite fash-
ion: a minimal value of the control signal sets the delay to 0.25 second, the maximum signal
value results in a delay of 0.0625 second.
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