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Chorus, flanger and phaser

MotionRate · Depth · Delay · Feedback · Notches

These effects mix the sound with a copy that moves. A chorus delays the copy 5 to 20 ms and sways that delay slowly: the pitch wavers a few cents and the sound thickens. A flanger does it at a few ms with feedback, a sweeping comb. A phaser moves notches through the spectrum with allpasses instead of a delay.

SEE IT MOVE

THE EFFECT ITSELF
THE SOUND · ONE LOOP
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Computed in your browser with KINSPIRATION's effects, sample by sample, with the values the program's own controllers give its chains. The phrase going in is a simple stand-in for the program's layers.

WHAT TO KNOW

THE CHORUS

Its rate (0.2 to 2 Hz) and its depth in cents of detune; the two sides out of phase widen it. Dual Chorus 1 runs a chorus a side, each panned away.

THE FLANGER

Short taps swept by an LFO whose period counts in beats; feedback deepens the comb into a metallic whoosh.

THE PHASER

An allpass summed with the dry sound makes a notch; CenterFreq and the LFO's depth in cents set where it sweeps. LFO Phaser Twin runs two in a row.

WATCH OUT

Summed to mono, a wide chorus partly cancels. And these effects want a sustained, rich sound: a sine or a dry click shows little of them.

IN THE FACTORY PROGRAMS

692 programs play a chorus, a flanger or a phaser: St Chorus+Delay (its chorus) in 316, Chorus<>Reverb in 229, Dual Chorus 1 in 151. The median chorus rate is 0.48 Hz.

THE MOTION EFFECTS THAT PLAY

St Chorus+Delay (its chorus)316
Chorus<>Reverb229
Dual Chorus 1151
Manual Phaser67
LFO Phaser Twin34
Chorus+Delay (its chorus)32
LFO Phaser26

CHORUS RATES

under 0.3 Hz300
0.3 to 0.6 Hz247
0.6 to 1 Hz85
1 to 2 Hz34
2 Hz and up30

FIND THEM ON YOUR K2700

7 Sizzle Pianoinsert · LFO Phaser Twin
49 Steely Dyno 77insert · LFO Phaser Twin
70 Phase EPinsert · LFO Phaser Twin
83 No Quarter Pntinsert · LFO Phaser Twin
102 Hybrid DX & Padinsert · Dual Chorus 1
108 TrampledUnder D6aux1 · Chorus<>Reverb

HOW TO ON YOUR K2700 · 490 Deeper Water

Deeper Water plays Orchestral 02's chorus and its LFO Phaser, the chain's Motion. Switch the phaser out and in.

  1. In Program mode choose 490 Deeper Water (KEYPAD, 490, ENTER).

    Program mode with 490 Deeper Water

  2. Press EDIT, then PARAMS. INS Motion Enable is on Button 5, at 127: the phaser is in.

    The PARAMS page of 490 Deeper Water, the cursor on INS Motion Enable (127)

  3. Press Button 5 to switch it out (0) and hold a chord: only the chorus moves now. Press it again and the sweep comes back.

    The PARAMS page of 490 Deeper Water, the cursor on INS Motion Enable (0)

  4. INS Chorus Amount is on Slider 7, at 97: how much of the chorus is mixed in.

    The PARAMS page of 490 Deeper Water, the cursor on INS Chorus Amount (97)

  5. Press EXIT and answer NO to leave the factory program as it was, or SAVE to keep your version on a USER ID.