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This is a degree of control that quite frankly wouldn’t be possible with hardware tremolo effects. These allow for some refinement of the effect and can help lock in a cool rhythmic pattern by placing the tremolo ahead of or behind the beat, or by accenting the volume peaks of the effect. These controls are augmented by some pretty cool extra features, specifically the groove, feel, and accent controls. You could also set it manually with the knob. The rate controls can be synced to MIDI or tapped to get the tempo. And it’s also really cool when added to an aux bus or send and blended in with a dry signal, as this can add clarity while still giving you the option of cranking the effect. Much like the original effect itself, it sounds good on a number of sources. The input and output gain controls just add some extra overdrive and saturation to the effect.
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Considering the multitude of wave shapes (of which there are several, including more traditional ones like sine, triangle, and saw), you have a lot of options here. Since these are all painstakingly modeled after the original components, they are remarkable in their accuracy. So if you really wanted to make it sound like the “vibrato” from a Fender Amp, or the tremolo of a Wurlitzer electric piano, you can choose those waveforms specifically, among others. With that in mind, the wave shape menu lets you take the oscillation waveform patterns from different pieces of vintage gear, all of which had their own signature shaping patterns. These controls would be enough for you to go on if you wanted it to work just like it does on an old Fender amp or Wurlitzer. The two controls that you’d find on an amplifier or other simple tremolo effect are rate (the speed at which the oscillator controls volume) and depth (how much of the signal is processed). First, the basics controls of the effect are at the top of the menu.