Microcosm

This is your main 'browse the sounds' dial. Turn it to move between effects; an amber light shows which effect is active and a moving cursor shows which of the four variations you're on. Push it in to make the effect play backwards. Hold it down to start saving a sound.

tip: You can set it (in Global Configuration) to scroll in a loop/circle or as a straight list down the two rows — pick whichever feels more intuitive for finding sounds quickly.

A quick press flips the effect so it plays your sound backwards, which instantly makes things more dreamy and disorienting. Press again to go back to forward.

tip: Reverse is fantastic on the ambient/granular presets (Haze, Tunnel) for swells that seem to bloom out of nowhere.

Think of this as the 'more or less' knob for whatever the effect does. Turn it up for busier, thicker, more complex results; turn it down for something sparser and simpler.

tip: Because it does something different in every preset, sweep it slowly while playing to discover each preset's personality. On some presets (like Seq B and D) turning it fully clockwise unlocks a special extra layer.

This controls how long the effect keeps going or how often it repeats. Combined with Activity, the two knobs together shape the whole character of each preset. Hold Shift and this same knob sets how deep the pitch wobble is.

tip: Activity gives you 'how much,' Repeats gives you 'how long' — nudge both together rather than maxing one out for the most musical results.

This shapes how each sound event swells and fades — from sharp plucky attacks to soft slow-rising swells. Hold Shift and this knob sets how fast the pitch wobble moves.

tip: Turn Shape toward slower/softer contours for pad-like, breathing textures; use it plus Shift-rate to dial in anything from gentle chorus to seasick vibrato.

This is your tone/brightness control for the effect. All the way right, it's off and everything sounds full and bright. Turn it left to get darker and more muffled, and all the way left it silences the effect entirely. Hold Shift and turn it to add resonance — a vowel-like emphasis right at the cutoff point.

tip: Great for expression-pedal or knob swells: sweeping Filter down as a loop plays creates a natural fade into darkness. Add a touch of resonance for a more vocal, synthy filter sweep.

This decides how much of the raw untouched you versus the processed effect you hear. Center for a mix of both; turn up for more effect. Hold Shift and turn it to set the overall output volume of the effect.

tip: For the Interrupt effect specifically, setting Mix to 100% makes the effect truly cut out (mute) your dry signal during glitches — a dramatic stutter. Use the Shift/master-volume to match effect loudness to your bypassed level.

This sets the rhythmic feel. In Subdiv mode it picks how fast the pattern divides the beat (from 1/4 up through 8x). In Tempo mode it becomes a manual speed dial you can smoothly slow down or speed up. Hold Shift while the looper is running and this knob changes how fast your loop plays back (and its pitch).

tip: Tap tempo still works even in Tempo mode. For dramatic tape-stop-style effects, hold Shift and slowly turn Time while a loop plays — 1X returns it to normal speed.

This is your reverb amount — turn it up to bathe everything in space and ambience; all the way right is fully drenched. Hold Shift and turn it to pick which flavor of reverb you get, from a small bright room up to a huge ambient wash.

tip: The reverb mode setting (and filter/mod settings) persists through power cycles. For giant ambient beds, use Large Hall or Ambient mode with Space cranked and Repeats high.

This controls how loud your recorded loop plays back against everything else. Hold Shift and turn it to set how gradually loops fade in or out.

tip: Set a longer fade time (via Shift) for smooth, gentle loop entrances and exits instead of abrupt starts and stops.

This changes where the looper sits. Normally it records the finished effect sound. Switch to Pre-FX and it records your clean playing, then runs it through the effects live — so you can change the effect on a loop after you've recorded it.

tip: Try recording a loop in normal post-FX mode, then re-feeding it through the effects — the two routings give very different results, and the routing is saved with each preset.

This makes the pedal behave like a plain, normal looper with the wild effects switched off — though reverb, filter, and pitch mod still work.

tip: Handy when you just need a clean loop to play over, without granular chaos on top.

This makes looping instant and momentary — hold the footswitch to record, let go and it loops immediately. Great for quick stutters and on-the-fly grabs, but you can't overdub in this mode.

tip: Perfect for glitchy live performance grabs. If you want to keep a Burst loop in a saved preset, turn Burst off after recording it.

This snaps your loop length to the beat so it stays perfectly in time with the effect's rhythm. Ideal for building complex layered patterns that all lock together.

tip: Set your tempo first, then record. You can change the effect's subdivision freely while staying in sync, but changing global tempo will break sync until you switch presets.

Tap it to switch what the Time knob does. Hold it down to unlock the hidden 'second job' printed in gray under each knob — like pitch mod rate/depth, filter resonance, effect volume, reverb mode, and loop fade time.

tip: Remember: a quick tap = switch Time modes; a hold = access secondary functions. The gray text under each knob is your cheat sheet for what Shift does.

This family builds new rhythms and harmonies from tiny loops of your playing. Mosaic makes octave-shifted layered patterns, Seq makes rearranged rhythmic sequences, Glide makes pitches slide up and down over time.

tip: Mosaic A adds octave-up harmonies, B goes an octave down, C doubles speed, and D spans two octaves below to above — great for instant harmony textures.

This family shatters your sound into tiny grains and rebuilds them into clouds, drones, and sparkly cascades. Haze is a soft ambient wash, Tunnel is a droning hum, Strum spits out chains of your recent notes like a music box.

tip: Tunnel is the go-to for hypnotic drones — Activity sets how deeply the drone is modulated, and Repeats sets how long it takes to decay. Reverse it for extra otherworldliness.

This family chops and scrambles your playing into stutters, glitches, and arpeggios. Blocks rearranges and adds runs, Interrupt cuts into your sound with glitchy bursts, and Arp turns recent notes into automatic arpeggio patterns.

tip: On Interrupt, remember Mix at 100% makes the glitches actually replace (mute) your dry signal. Arp's Activity sets how many steps are in the arpeggio.

This family is echo/delay with a twist. Pattern gives you rhythmic multi-tap delays (variation A is a normal echo), while Warp filters and pitch-shifts the echoes into lush, evolving textures.

tip: Activity controls how many delay taps (echoes) are active in both Pattern and Warp — turn it down for simpler echoes, up for dense rhythmic clouds.

This is where your own saved sounds live — 16 slots grouped by color. Scroll into it to recall a sound and loop exactly as you saved it.

tip: Knob positions won't match a loaded preset's actual settings. As soon as you turn any knob, that parameter jumps to the physical knob position — so tweak gently.

This turns the built-in looper on and off. When it's lit, the footswitches become record/play/stop/erase controls instead of tap/hold. Hold it to open the looper's extra settings.

tip: Activating the looper clears anything held in the Hold Sampler, and the Hold Sampler is unavailable while the looper is on — plan around that.

Flips your recorded loop so it plays backwards. Turn it on before recording and the whole loop comes out reversed.

tip: Combine reverse loop playback with reverse effect direction for deeply disorienting, backwards-tape textures.

Normally you tap this in rhythm to set the tempo. When the looper is running, it becomes your record button — tap to record, tap to play, tap to start overdubbing, and hold to wipe just the overdub layer.

tip: During recording, the looper button blinks in the last 5 seconds before you hit the 60-second maximum, warning you the loop is about to close automatically.

Your on/off switch for the whole pedal. Depending on your settings, the effect either stops instantly, fades out naturally (trails), or the pedal gets fully out of your signal's way (true bypass).

tip: Trails mode lets reverb and loop tails ring out after you bypass — but it's not available in true bypass mode.

Normally this freezes the last bit you played into an endless sustained bed you can play over. When the looper is on, it stops the loop with a press, or erases it completely if you hold it.

tip: Set Hold to 'Momentary' in Global Config if you want the freeze to last only while you're pressing — great for rhythmic in-and-out drone stabs.

These four lights are the pedal's little screen. They tell you which variation you've landed on, and their color tells you what the looper is doing or which menu you're in.

tip: Learn the looper colors: red means recording, green means playing back, yellow means overdubbing, and flashing means a warning or an erase/undo action.

These just tell you which of the two jobs the Time knob is doing right now.

This is where your instrument or source plugs in. One cable for mono; a stereo TRS cable if you're feeding it a stereo signal (after enabling stereo input in the menu).

tip: The pedal defaults to mono input — remember to switch to stereo input in Global Configuration if you're running a stereo source.

Your main output. Use just this one if you're going to a single amp or mono setup.

tip: When sending a stereo signal in but you only need mono out, use Output L alone to collapse everything to mono.

The second output for stereo rigs — use it alongside Output L to get the full wide stereo effect.

tip: Even a mono input creates a lush stereo image when you use both outputs, thanks to the stereo reverb and effects.

Plug in an expression pedal here to control one knob with your foot. When you plug it in while powered on, the lights flash blue — move the knob you want to control and it gets assigned.

tip: To keep an assignment, plug the expression pedal in before powering on and don't touch any controls while the lights flash. Filter and Loop Level make especially expressive foot swells.

Connect this to a MIDI controller, sequencer, or other gear to control the pedal remotely and sync its tempo to your setup.

tip: When an external MIDI Start message arrives, the pedal syncs to that clock and tap tempo is disabled; a Stop message returns it to its internal clock.

Passes MIDI on to other devices in your chain and can send out tempo clock to keep everything in time.

tip: Since it echoes incoming messages by default, set other daisy-chained devices to a different MIDI channel to avoid them all responding at once.

Where power plugs in. Use a proper 9V center-negative supply that can deliver at least 400mA — this pedal is hungry.

tip: Avoid daisy-chaining or cheap switching supplies — they add noise. An isolated 9V supply rated 400mA or more gives the cleanest results.