# ER-301/Grain Delay

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## Description

### Maximum Delay Time

This menu setting allows you to expand (or shrink) the pre-allocated buffer for the delay line. The size of this pre-allocated buffer determines the maximum delay time accessible in real-time via the delay parameter.

Delay units are created with a default buffer length of 1s.

## Parameters

### delay

 Control Type Has Sub-chain? Sub-chain Parameters Fader Scale Gain/Bias yes gain (-3 to 3) bias (0s to Ns) linear time

This parameter dictates the length of the delay line. In other words, how long it takes for a sound to pass from the input to the output of the Delay unit. The maximum value of this parameter (N) is determined by the Maximum Delay Time setting in the unit's menu.

When this unit is placed in a stereo chain, then the delay parameter is split into separate parameters for the left and right channels.

### V/oct

 Control Type Has Sub-chain? Sub-chain Parameters Fader Scale Pitch yes transpose (-3600¢ to 3600¢) logarithmic ratio

This parameter is used to transpose the pitch of the grains up or down according to an incoming modulation value (typically one of the calibrated inputs from the ABCD matrix). Its effect multiplies the speed parameter like this:

$\displaystyle \text{Playback Speed} = (\text{base speed}) * 2 ^{\text{V/oct}}$

For example, if the speed parameter is equal to 0.5x and this V/oct parameter is set to 2400¢, then the resulting grain playback will be 2x (i.e. 2400¢ = 2 octaves which is 4x and the base speed was 0.5x for a total of 2x). The V/oct parameter is identical to the pitch (or exponential FM) control on a VCO.

### speed

 Control Type Has Sub-chain? Sub-chain Parameters Fader Scale Gain/Bias yes gain (-3 to 3) bias (-3 to 3) linear

The speed parameter controls the base speed of grain playback. It is called the base speed because the final playback speed will be affected by the V/oct parameter described above. It is similar to the linear FM control on a VCO. If the V/oct parameter is zero then the grain playback speed is exactly equal to the value of this parameter. See the V/oct parameter for a complete description of the calculation of sample playback speed.

### wet

 Control Type Has Sub-chain? Sub-chain Parameters Fader Scale Gain/Bias yes gain (-3 to 3) bias (0 to 1) linear

This parameter controls the amount of the input signal and of the affected signal which is passed to the output. A value of 1 (i.e. 100% wet) means you will only hear the affected signal. A value of 0 (i.e. 100% dry) means you will only hear the signal received at the unit's input. However, the cross-fade curve is not linear but rather lifted to counteract the tendency for loudness to dip in the center of a linear cross-fade curve. The actual cross-fade curve looks like this: