Audio Morphing - Lexicon Vortex Mode D'emploi

About Morphing
One of the most exciting controls that
Vortex gives you is the ability to continuously
transform one effect into another. This fea-
ture, which we call Audio Morphing,™allows
you to transform closely related, or wildly
dissimilar effects — and to set the time period
over which the transformation occurs.
As this concept is completely new to audio
effects, it will be helpful to keep a few things
in mind when using this control.
Morphing is accomplished with the A/B
switch.
When you press A/B, Vortex doesn't simply
switch back and forth between Banks A and
B. It transforms one effect into another.
The rate at which this transformation occurs
is determined by the MORPH A/B param-
eter.
MORPH A/B allows you to determine the
time it takes for one effect to transform into
another when A/B is pressed. Morph rates,
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like other parameters, are stored as part of
the effect.
Morphs are performed between register
pairs. To set up a morph, store one effect into
an A register, then store another effect into
the corresponding B register. You can store
any preset, or any modified preset into any A
or B register.
Because you can store any effect you want,
in any register, you can select morphs to
perform subtle, smooth parameter changes,
or radical shifts between effects.
When you morph between two versions of
the same effect, all of the parameter values
move smoothly from one version to the other.
When you morph between two different ef-
fects, the entire structure of the effect trans-
forms to the other effect. Everything changes
— rates, levels, audio routing, routing of the
LFOs and envelope, etc.
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Audio Morphing™

An expression pedal gives you dynamic con-
trol of morphing — and allows you to create
dramatic new effects.
The ability to morph from any effect, or effect
variation, in the box to any other effect gives
you an infinite number of possible new ef-
fects, as a new effect is created at virtually
every point in the morph. Assigning control of
the morph to an expression pedal allows you
not only expressive control over the morph,
but allows you to halt the morph at any point.
This is one of the most dramatic features of
pedal control and is explained in detail in the
next section, Pedal Control.