How It Works
Technical view
The current `Modulated Delay` patch uses short moving delay taps on each channel and brightens the wet branch with a high shelf before adding it back over the dry source. `time` sets the base delay lengths, `feedback` actually raises the LFO speeds that move those taps instead of creating a feedback loop, and `tone` brightens the modulated repeat branch.
- Delay & Echo
- waveshaping / saturation
- delay processing
- oscillator / LFO modulation
- DC blocking
Signal Path
Compiled preview chain
Preview source: An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it hits the delay core.
- 1internal picked-string demo phrase
- 2stereo spread with a short right-channel delay
- 3independent moving delay taps
- 4post-delay high-shelf shaping
- 5repeat branch added over the dry source
- 6DC blocker
- 7output gain trim
- 8final tanh limiter
Preview source
An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay and slight left/right shelf-EQ offsets before it hits the delay core.
Effect core
Stereo moving-delay repeat engine with high-shelf-shaped wet taps and no true feedback loop.
Signal path
The static waveform and the live player both reflect this compiled signal chain.
- internal picked-string demo phrase
- stereo spread with a short right-channel delay
- independent moving delay taps
- post-delay high-shelf shaping
- repeat branch added over the dry source
- DC blocker
- output gain trim
- final tanh limiter
Controls that matter
These are the currently active controls detected in the FAUST source for this effect.
- mix: Scales the repeat branch above the always-present dry phrase.
- output_gain_db: Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
- time: Sets the base delay times that the modulation moves around.
- feedback: Raises the speeds of the delay-time LFOs rather than creating a feedback loop.
- tone: Adjusts the high shelf on the moving repeat branch.
Code-backed analysis
The generated description is tied to the active helper blocks and routing found in the current DSP.
- demo
- fx
- outputStage
- leftDemo
- rightDemo
- leftFx
- rightFx
- phraseMono
Controls
Audible controls in this DSP
Scales the repeat branch above the always-present dry phrase.
Raises repeat level without fully removing the original attack.
Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
Matches loudness without changing the actual delay structure.
Sets the base delay times that the modulation moves around.
Moves the echoes from shorter motion into longer trailing repeats.
Raises the speeds of the delay-time LFOs rather than creating a feedback loop.
Makes the repeat motion wobble faster.
Adjusts the high shelf on the moving repeat branch.
Makes the moving repeats darker or brighter.
Analysis
Code-derived notes
Current implementation uses moving delay taps without a recirculating feedback loop, and the feedback control is repurposed as modulation speed.
Active blocks
- demo
- fx
- outputStage
- leftDemo
- rightDemo
- leftFx
- rightFx
- phraseMono
- previewShiftSamples
- combLP
- delayA
- delayB
- pickedVoice
- maxDelaySamples
- fund
- pickEnv
- ampEnv
- triggerAt
Inactive helpers
- synthVoice
- organVoice
- bellVoice
- softsat
- quantize
- echoOnly
- diffuser
Warnings
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
Source
- library/delay-echo/modulated-delay.dsp
- Output stage: DC blocker -> output gain trim -> final tanh limiter
- Library position: 136