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FRIZZ Manual

Every control in FRIZZ. For a first session, start with the Quick start.

Contents

Section titled “Contents”

Getting started

Section titled “Getting started”
  • Install: Put FRIZZ on your CHOMPI, update it, and go back to stock firmware.
  • Quick start: Your levels, your first loop and your first effects, in ten minutes.
  • Overview: What FRIZZ does, and how this manual names things.

Basics

Section titled “Basics”
  • Panel: Every control at a glance.
  • Playing basics: SHIFT, the pages, the VOLUME knob and what the LEDs say.

Looper and tempo

Section titled “Looper and tempo”
  • Looper: Record, play and erase a loop, and change its speed.
  • Tempo and transport: One tempo for every effect: the loop’s, a MIDI clock’s or tapped.
  • Loop loader: Your own loops and TAPE’s recordings from the SD card.
  • Playing loops: The Loops and Cubbi pages, and switching between loops.
  • Loops and scenes: Loops switched with a scene change, or crossfaded by hand.

Effects

Section titled “Effects”
  • Sound architecture: From the input through the looper and the effects to the outputs.
  • Punch-in FX: Playing the effects on the white keys: hold, latch, select, knobs.
  • Freezer: Grabs a slice of what’s playing, from a whole bar down to a 16th, and repeats it while you hold the key. Turn up the roll for a beat repeat’s build-up.
  • Shifter: Shifts the pitch in semitones, with big steps at fourths, fifths and octaves. Feedback shifts again on every pass.
  • Folder: A wavefolder: past the fold point the signal mirrors back on itself, for bright, gritty overtones.
  • Crusher: Fewer bits and a lower sample rate, down to 480 Hz, with a dive on every press.
  • Filter: A DJ filter, lowpass one way and highpass the other, with an LFO on the cutoff that follows the tempo.
  • Flanger: A swept short delay with feedback: the jet sweep, a chorus, or at the top a vibrato.
  • Phaser: Sweeping notches with resonance, free-running or locked to the tempo. Hold SHIFT and tap key 7 twice for its other mode, a frequency shifter.
  • Resonator: A tuned comb loop that rings at a note you set. Latch the crusher or the shifter and the ringing goes through them on every pass.
  • Slicer: Chops the sound in 16th-note patterns, locked to the tempo.
  • Wow & flutter: Tape warble: a slow drift in pitch and the fast wobble of a capstan, with worn tape’s dropouts.
  • Tape stop: Winds the tape down to a standstill while you hold the key, and spins it back up when you let go.
  • Delay: Echoes in time with the tempo, with random events and shimmer. They keep ringing after you let go.
  • Reverb: From a room to a long wash. The tail rings on after you let go.
  • Chaos key: Makes no sound of its own: drops your latched effects out at random and scrambles the steps of the loop.
  • Finalizer: A master section on key 15: input and drive, a 3-band EQ, compression and width, and a limiter that makes it loud.

Scenes and settings

Section titled “Scenes and settings”

Reference

Section titled “Reference”