Re: vortex

["Todd Pafford" <calenlas@gmail.com>]

Just to clarify on the Vortex Morphing capability for those entirely
unfamiliar with the device...

The Vortex doesn't just morph between settings on similar effects,
e.g. 100ms delay time -> 200ms delay time, but can actually morph
between two completely unrelated effects chains and all relevant
settings.

As a simplified example, imagine having one chain that goes
    instrument > chorus > delay1 > amp,
and another chain that goes
    instrument > delay2 > flange > amp.
The Vortex morph gives you the ability to morph between these two
chains so that in the middle of the morph you've got some strange
chain like
    instrument > (chorus) > (delay1 + delay2) > (flange) > amp

Now, add to that the truly insane effect chains that make up each
Vortex preset and you've got some really fun audio chemistry to play
with.  I recommend downloading a copy of the Vortex user's manual as
it contains descriptions of all of this and detailed diagrams of each
preset's effect chain.
<http://www.lexiconpro.com/Product_Downloads/vortex/Vortex_User_Guide.pdf>
(The preset diagrams begin on page 26 of the manual, the 29th page in
the PDF file.)

Todd


On 10/12/07, Goddard, Duncan <goddard.duncan@mtvne.com> wrote:
>
> >>The vortex seems very popular with loopers and experimentalists.
> In a nutshell,  what does it do?<<
>
> warped time-domain stuff, things that they had to make up new names for,
> based on extreme flanging & delay modulations. it can "morph" from one
> complete lot of settings to another (switch channels on y'r amp too, if
> you want it to) provided they live in the A & B "versions" of a memory.
>