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You can keep your taps ordered and use Chop to shape that character with watery and metallic results, but the Slurm control's 'smearing' of taps is one of this pedal's most addictive calling cards. Once you've decided on your tap number and time between them of course because this is what they manipulate. Slurm, Chop and Speed/Rise/Release are your tickets into deep ambience. Add some subtle short-length texture for character. Keeping the Tap at 1 like a standard delay, Slurm on 0 and Length at around 4 pm for a slapback is a good starting point to investigate out from. The Slurm control's 'smearing' of taps is one of this pedal's most addictive calling cardsīut like the MicroPitch, there are also more subtle textures to be discovered that aren't just for the cinematic show-stopping moments. Turning the Chop off and turning up the Length with Spread set at noon allows long moody sustain to be unleashed and it's great for single note atmospheres. Hence, the Presets are great starting points for experimenting with each parameter. The Chop control's Trigger can cut off the end of your notes to dramatic effect but set it to the saw LFO waveform while on Preset 5's Trembience and it sounds just like the synth intro to the Stereophonics' Dakota! For example, Preset 3's Ultraswole sounds like an eerie slow attack in reverse with the Taps and Slurm controls maxed and Chop set to Swell. Preset 4's Glitchtrigger has the Chop parameter set to Trigger and Taps to around 6 for a watery texture on sustaining notes. Like the MicroPitch, each onboard preset has a template card that slides over the UltraTap to show you what level each of the 12 settings is at.

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The five onboard presets give a good indication of the range it's capable of (though there's 50 more to download via connection to Eventide's Device Manager software). This is a pedal that dives deep into ambience with its multi-tap editing the way note attack and taps can be manipulated makes the UltraTap the delay sibling to the Blackhole reverb pedal for us. Truth be told, there are a lot of delays bringing their own bespoke parameters to the market, but Eventide's depth of editing on the character of repeats here is notable. Mix and Taps (repeats) will be familiar to delay users but there's plenty here that highlights just how distinct Eventide's offering is Slurm, Chop, Spread, Taper… all suggest a new world for many of us. (Image credit: Eventide) Performance and verdict Use the UltraTap in Mono or Stereo mode utilising one or both of the 1/4 -inch outputs.

Speed, Rise, Release: Affects the Chop – Speed changes LFO speed, Rise adjusts Swell rise time and Release is for Chop Trigger – setting the amount of time after triggering before the gate kicks in and chokes off the sound.

These both have 0-9 sensitivity levels you can set. The auto-volume processor will either do volume swells or a gating effect, called Trigger, that chops off the end of sounds.

Chop: Pre-tap-machine chopping tremolo OR auto-volume processor with several waveform choices: Off, Triangle, Sawtooth, Ramp, Square, or a randomised sample and Hold.

Slurm: Slurring/smearing/ modulation – 'Adds juicy tap slurring/smearing and modulation,' says Eventide.

Tone: Negative values for darker sounding taps, positive for brighter.

Taper: Controls the fade of the taps with negative values increasingly giving a fade-up over the taps and more positive giving a fade-up .

More positive values will group taps towards the end for a 'speeding-up' delay sound.' Eventide states, 'More negative values (anti-clockwise from noon on the dial) will group taps towards the beginning for a 'slowing-down' feeling.

Spread: This is the rhythmic spacing of the taps.

Feedback: Repeats of a Length-valued delay that is fed back around the entire multi-tap machine.

Pre-delay: The amount of time before the taps start, this can be set up to one second.

Length: Total time over which the taps are spaced, up to 10 seconds.

Taps: The number of delay taps, from 1 to 64 .

Mix: The Wet/Dry mix, so fully turned up is an all wet signal.

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