Expert Sleepers Augustus Loop v2.4.1 - Manual (Page 30)

Levels
Dry
Controls the amount of the input signal
that is fed directly to the plug-in's output.
The level meter to the left of the ‘Dry’
knob shows the level of the signal enter-
ing the plug-in.
The slider to the left of the meter sets the trigger level (see below ). The small button at the
bottom right of the meter increases the meter sensitivity, which can be useful when setting
the trigger level on signals with a low noise floor.
Effect
Controls the amount of the effect signal that is output from the plug-in.
The level meter to the right of the ‘Effect’ knob shows the level of the signal after the filter
section, but before the effect level has been applied (see the
overview diagram ).
Input
Controls the amount of the input signal that is fed into the delay loop.
PISIL and POSIL
The two buttons to the right of the Levels group are rather cryptically labelled PISIL and
POSIL, which stand for “Punch In Set Input Level” and “Punch Out Set Input Level” re-
spectively. The names are historical - the functions used to be linked to the punch in/out
controls (
below ).
These buttons allow the loop input level (the 'Input' knob) to be automatically set by the
beginning and end of tap recording. The input level is set to 1.0 at the start of recording if
PISIL is activated; it is set to 0.0 at the end of recording if POSIL is activated.
POSIL is useful to emulate the behaviour of certain other looping devices, where ‘closing’
the loop puts you into a mode where what you just recorded forms the loop and what you
continue to play is not overdubbed, until you explicitly ‘re-open’ the loop i.e. set the input
level back to 1. Without POSIL enabled, Augustus Loop’s default behaviour is, in the par-
lance of these other loopers, to immediately enter overdub mode after recording a loop.