Hidden treasure

At the bottom of the Animate interface are a small series of contextual controls for tweaking the response of each module. These can be hidden behind a slide-up panel if you don’t want to see them – not only is this totally pointless, but it’s all too easy to accidentally close said panel while aiming for the mute or solo buttons. Annoying…

Common to all four modules are their Attack/Release envelopes, setting the onset time of each effect after the Threshold is exceeded, and how long it takes to ‘let go’ when the input signal drops back below it again. The Attack stage ranges from 1-100ms, while the Release covers 1-300ms.

Alongside the envelope, the rest of the controls consist of Knee (Hard to Soft – 1-20dB) and Ratio (1:1-1:4) for Expand, Sensitivity for Punch (determining how hefty a transient needs to be for detection), and Width for Grow (the delay between left and right, ranging from -30 to 30ms).