Audio Damage Replicant 1.5 - Manual (Page 8)

Operation
Replicant is essentially a tempo-based delay effect. The primary feature that distinguishes Replicant from
standard delays is its notion of beat triggers, or simply triggers. Replicant divides each measure into 16 slices;
each slice has a trigger. If a slice‟s trigger fires, Replicant loops and repeats some amount of audio of that
slice. (In contrast, a standard delay loops and repeats all of the audio which passes through it.) Replicant has
controls which determine how long the repeated audio segment is and how many times it is repeated.
Replicant also has controls for filtering, panning, reversing and distorting the looped audio, creating rhythmic
timbres not present in the original signal. Replicant can automatically create random variations of its own
actions, and you can randomize all of its parameters at once with the click of a single button.
Replicant can be used in a mono, stereo, or mono-to-stereo context. In a mono context, the panning controls
have no effect. In a stereo context, no summing of the input channels happens, and the panning effects are
created by adjusting the levels of the two output signals with respect to each other (rather like the balance
knob found on most stereos). In a mono-to-stereo context the panning effects move the mono output signal
back and forth between the two output channels.
Replicant is useful as either an insert effect or a send/return effect. The FX MODE switches (described in
greater detail below) allow you to choose different combinations of the unprocessed and processed signals.