Centrifuze Block Diagram

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This is how sound flows through Centrifuze:

• “Dry” signal (A) enters Centrifuze and is sent to the Delay Modulation section where modulated delay is added, producing signal (B)

• Additional straight (non-modulated) delay is added to signal (B) in the Delay part of the Delay-Feedback loop section, producing signal (C)

• A percentage of this (C) signal is fed back via the Feedback part of the Delay-Feedback loop and mixed in with input signal (A)

• All of signal (C) is sent to the Amplitude Modulation section, which produces the final “wet” part (D) of the output signal

• Dry signal (A) and wet signal (D) are mixed and leveled in the output section, producing the final output signal (E)

(1) The Modulator section provides LFO and Amplitude Envelope modulation for the Delay Modulation and Amplitude Modulation sections

(2) The Tempo/Sync section sends user tempo & meter and Pro Tools tempo, meter, and MIDI beat data to the LFOs in the Modulator section and the delay depth in the Delay section

(3) The Preset section changes the values of various controls in other sections to achieve factory preset effects

Of course as few or as many sections can be used together at the same time. If you bypass everything else, and use pure delay modulation with an LFO (low frequency oscillator) waveform as its modulator, you'll get vibrato. Go with pure amplitude modulation, you'll get tremolo. With pure delay, you'll get a delay or slapback echoes. Add feedback to delay and you'll get infinite/decaying echoes. Add feedback to a vibrato effect and turn it into a wave flange. Modulate your flange from the fully tunable on-board ampltude envelope generator instead of an LFO, and you have amplitude envelope flange. Turn the delay up and add 100% feedback, and you now have a delay loop.

You can think of Centrifuze as an "all-in-one" modulation and delay effects unit that gives you all these classic effects in one product.

Or you can think of it as a plug-in that combines delay, delay mod, amp mod, feedback, and Pro Tools synchronization that gives you the ability to make your own effects and sync them with each other and Pro Tools.

Some of the sounds you can get out of Centrifuze can be pretty spectacular and sometimes pretty weird. Check out the last sample on page 5 of Centrifuze's audio samples, the result of chaining 3 instances on one RTAS track (it make take a few moments to load!). Centrifuze is much more than a vibrato pedal!

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