Audio Damage Automaton - Manual (Page 18)

causing the repeated audio to sound darker or duller. The amount that the filter closes is set with the FILTER
knob. The setting of this knob determines the frequency of the filter used during the final repetition.
The FILTER knob has a range of 40Hz to 20kHz. At high settings the filter won't close much and you'll hear
little or no effect. At low settings the filter's frequency may go below the lowest tones in Automaton's input
signal and you may hear nothing at all after the first few repetitions.
The DECAY knob determines how much, if any, the repeated audio diminishes in loudness each time it is
played. If the DECAY knob is rotated fully counter-clockwise, the looped audio is played back with the same
loudness with each repetition. If you rotate the knob clockwise from this position, the looped audio becomes
quieter each time it repeats. At the fully clockwise position, the audio usually fades out altogether before you
hear the last repetition. You can use this control to make the Replicate processor sound more like a traditional
delay effect. This control has a range of 0dB (no decay) to -6dB per repetition.
The Replicate processor's last control is the TRIGGER switch. If you've been paying careful attention, you
might have realized that Replicate is the only processor in Automaton whose effect on the incoming audio can
persist for longer than a single generation after receiving only one trigger. (This follows when you consider
that the length of the audio segment that the Replicate processor records and repeats can be greater than the
SEQUENCE LIFESPAN duration, since the REPLICATE LENGTH knob has a number of settings greater than
one.) So, this question naturally arises: What happens if Replicate is triggered, starts merrily repeating some
audio, and then receives another trigger before it finishes repeating? The answer is that it depends upon the
setting of the TRIGGER switch. If the TRIGGER switch is set to IGNORE, the second trigger (and any
subsequent triggers) is ignored until the Replicate processor finishes repeating the audio that it's currently
playing. If the TRIGGER switch is set to RETRIG, Replicate will start recording and repeating a new segment of
audio every time it receives a trigger.