INSTRUMENTS / GENERATORS

PoiZone - Effects

Effects

The effects are important to add 'polish' to your sounds. PoiZone offers a DELAY and CHORUS effect bank, To activate the effect, click on the 'ON' button (it will light-up red).

Values for controls may be seen in the top left display of PoiZone.

DELAY

Delay is an echo-based effect. Very short values of the delay time controls can produce a 'reverb' like sound.

  • ON: Turn the effect ON/OFF.
  • LEFT: Delay time for the left channel. Changes in 1/16th note tempo-synced units.
  • RIGHT: Delay time for the right channel. Changes in 1/16th note tempo-synced units.
  • FDBK: Feedback, the level of the delay feedback. Greater levels produce more echoes.
  • MDPTH: Delay Time Modulation Depth. The delay has an internal LFO that can control the delay time.
  • LO-CUT: Low Cut, determines a high-pass filter amount applied to the delay feedback loop. That is, the longer the tail of echoes, the less low frequencies they will contain.
  • HI-CUT: High Cut, determines a low-pass filter amount applied to the delay feedback loop. That is, the longer the tail of echoes, the less high frequencies they will contain.
  • WET: The amount of wet (effect) added to the dry sound (i.e. Full-Left is 100% Dry + 0% Wet, Full-Right is 100% Dry + 100% Wet).

CHORUS

The Chorus effect results from the interaction of several copies of the original sound that are detuned by a very small and constantly variable amount. It is called 'Chorus' because it can make a single voice sound like that of a chorus of singers (all slightly out of tune relative to each other) to create a thick and lush texture. The Chorus in PoiZone does not have delay time control, rather delay time is modulated with the main LFO, so it varies from zero to "depth" in range. With rate at which the pitch variations occur is controlled by "rate" knob.

  • ON: Turn the effect ON/OFF.
  • DEPTH: Depth of the chorus effect.
  • RATE: The speed at which the chorus voices change pitch (in Hz).
  • WET: The amount of wet (effect) added to the dry sound (i.e. Full-Left is 100% Dry + 0% Wet, Full-Right is 100% Dry + 100% Wet).