| Balance | Single-knob macro across Spread and Focus. 0 = full Spread / no Focus (ethereal, dissolving). 0.5 = balanced soliton. 1 = full Focus / no Spread (sharp, locked, aggressive). Moves both Spread and Focus with it; the slider thumb itself also follows whenever either underlying dial moves, so the macro view stays accurate. 0 – 1, default 0.50. | Use when you want one gesture between diffusion and crystallization. |
| Drift | Allpass coefficient modulation depth. The dispersing field gains its own slow life. 0 – 1, default 0.20. | Raise for shimmer and movement inside sustained repeats. |
| Width | Stereo decorrelation between L/R allpass coefficients. 0 – 1, default 0.50. | Raise for wide beds; lower for mono-safe or center-focused work. |
| Return | Stabilizer correction speed. Three regimes: slow / organic, quick-lock, pumping. Renamed from Recovery in v1.1 — same parameter. 0 – 1, default 0.30. | Lower for organic settling, higher for tighter lock or pumping motion. |
| Duck | Sidechains the wet/dry mix to the dry input envelope. Wet ducks while you play, swells back when you stop. Modulates the mix ratio, not the wet signal — keeps the stabilizer out of a feedback loop with the ducker. 0 – 1, default 0. | Vocals, leads, and busy parts where repeats should stay out of the way. |
| Freeze | Locks the current loop state indefinitely. The delay line stops accepting new input and the stabilizer holds the captured tone. The propagation panel gains a frosted border while Freeze is on. On / off, default off. | Engage after the tone blooms, then perform Mix, Output, or the XY pad. |
| Ping-Pong | Square-wave gain modulation at the delay frequency, applied to L/R. Pseudo-stereo bouncing from a mono core, with smooth transitions. On / off, default off. | Rhythmic stereo motion without adding another delay. |
| Clear Buffer | Momentary button beside the visualisation panel. Instantly empties the delay line, wrapped in a 5 ms cosine ramp so the wipe is click-free, with a short hold so the cleared state lands cleanly. Re-trigger safe — rapid clicks restart the envelope without artefacts. New in v1.1. | Use as a panic during runaway, or as a performance gesture during heavy Sustain passages. |
| Smear Density | Picks how many cascaded allpass dispersion stages the loop runs through. Light (2 stages): preserves transient attack, yields coloured discrete echoes at high Spread. Medium (4 stages): hybrid. Dense (8 stages, default): the canonical continuous soliton wall. Independent from Spread intensity. New in v1.1. | Light for articulated coloured echoes; Dense for continuous gauzy smear; Medium for the middle ground. |
| Filter Slope | Steepness of the Lo Cut and Hi Cut. 6 dB/oct (default): transparent, no resonance peak — matches v1.0 Tone character. 12 dB/oct: standard biquad — Lo Res and Hi Res handles start to bite. 24 dB/oct: steep cascade with strong resonance, for fully-sculpted vocal-like tails. New in v1.1. | 6 for transparency, 12 for everyday filter feel, 24 for aggressive sculpting. |
| Lo Res · Hi Res | Resonance peak at the Lo Cut and Hi Cut frequencies. At 12 or 24 dB slope, raises a peak right at the cutoff. At 6 dB slope the resonance handles are inert by design (a 1-pole filter has no Q). 0 – 1 each, default 0 each. | Drag the curve handles vertically on the filter visualisation. Use sparingly at the top — gets pingy. |
| Shape | Saturator family inside the feedback loop. Tanh Warm: soft, classic. Asym Tape: even-harmonic grit. Sine Glass: crystalline, opens the high end. Fold Metal: wavefolding cascade. Per-mode drive scaling. Default Tanh Warm. | Warm for utility, Tape for grit, Glass for brighter edge, Fold for destructive sound design. |
| Pulse · Pulse Rate | Rhythmic scaffold. When Pulse depth > 0, every Pulse Rate division the dispersion drops and the freeze gate opens — the line surges and gates in time. Independent grid from Delay Rate. Always tempo-locked. 0 – 1 depth, default 0. Nineteen rate divisions, default 1/8. | Use when the repeats should surge, gate, or destabilize in time. |
| XY pad | Performance surface for moving two assigned parameters at once. Default X = Spread, Y = Focus. Reassignable from the corner dropdowns. Modifier keys: Shift = fine, Cmd = snap. Double-click resets. The dot follows external param changes (Balance drag, preset recall, host automation). Assignable axes. | Record it as automation once the base delay is stable. |