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You're reading the manual for FRIZZ v1.5.0-beta.4, a pre-release. Stable manual (v1.0.1) →

Shifter

White key 2. Shifts the pitch in semitones, with big steps at fourths, fifths and octaves. Feedback shifts again on every pass.

The white keys from above, the shifter lit on key 2; its knobs 1 to 4 are shift, feedback, swoop, grain

Knob Page 1 Page 2
1 Shift: -12 to +12 semitones, one step per 3 detents; centre off (default 0, off) Mix: the dry sound under the shifted one, a harmony
2 Feedback: the shifted sound spirals (default off) Stereo: the right channel up to a semitone higher; SHIFT + turn in quarter semitones (default off)
3 Swoop: on the key press, the shift pushes up to 2 octaves further and falls back over 1 s (default off) Band
4 Grain: the window the shifter reads in, 10 ms (glitchy) through 30 ms (the centre, the default) to 50 ms (smooth) Level
  • Swoop: each press pushes the pitch further in the direction of the shift, up to 2 octaves, over 0.1 s, and lets it fall back over 1 s.
  • Feedback sends the shifted output back in, so each pass shifts again: a fifth stacks into fifths.
  • Two overlapping taps keep the pitch within about a cent of the interval, without wobble or buzz. The grain is how long each tap reads before it starts over.
  • LEDs: the key is indigo; the shift and the grain go blue (down) through white (the centre) to orange (up), as every knob with a centre does, feedback and swoop indigo to red.