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## Features & Quickstart

- **Midi rhythm delay**
- [Midi rhythm delay](#Recording-a-rhythm)
You record a delay rhythm by playing midi notes into the plugin.
The first note starts counting, and each note after that creates a delay tap, with a maximum of 16.

- Independent **effects per tap**
- A **moog style filter** with creamy drive
- Independent effects per tap:
- A [Moog style filter](#Filters) with creamy drive
The parameters are (optionally) linked to velocity and note.
- **Panning**, linked to the note
- Four **midi triggers:**
- **mute input**
- **mute output**
- **clear taps**
- **lock taps**
- There are two modes for the input and output mute: "toggle" and "direct":
- **Toggle-mode** is how most mutes work: the triggers turn the mute on when it's off and vice versa.
- **Direct-mode** is more like an instrument: the mute is on by default and the trigger turns it off only as long as you hold the trigger note.
- [Panning](#Panning) linked to the note
- Four [midi triggers](#Triggers):
- mute input
- mute output
- clear taps
- lock taps
There are two modes for the input and output mute: "toggle" and "direct":
- Toggle-mode is how most mutes work: the triggers turn the mute on when it's off and vice versa.
- Direct-mode is more like an instrument: the mute is on by default and the trigger turns it off only as long as you hold the trigger note.
- The rhythm pattern is saved alongside the other parameters in the preset and DAW session.
- Stereo from end to end
- [Stereo from end to end](#Faux-HRTF-panning).


## Manual

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The **center** slider allows you to change that to another note.
**panning amount** controls how much each note is panned.

Not just the delay and the filter, but also the panner is fully stereo.
Instead of turning down the level for one channel a lot, when you want tox pan to the other side, these panners ad a tiny bit more delay to one side, and they make that side slightly duller and quieter.
The overall effect is that the sound seems to be coming from the opposite side.
The signal retains it's stereo-width: sounds that where coming from the opposite side of where you panned, will still mostly come from there.

#### Faux HRTF panning
Normal panners operate on the level of each input.
Let's say we want to pan left.
A regular stereo panner would either turn down the right channel, or mix some of the right input into the left output.
When you hard-pan, the first method will turn off the right input, and the second method will have a mono mix of both channels in the left output.

The panners in DEL2 work differently.
When you pan left, they do three things:
- Add a bit more delay to the right input.
This is called the [Haas Effect](https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/what-is-the-haas-effect.html).
- Make the right side slightly duller
- Make it a bit quieter.
Together they emulate a [HRTF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function)".

The upside is that the signal retains it's stereo-width and sounds that where hard-panned in the input don't get lost.
The downside is that you get comb filtering when you listen in mono.
Since this panner is only on the delay and not on any of the main channels of your mix, the stereo width you get is more than worth it.


### Triggers
To set which note controls the trigger, just click the button and play a note.
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