Tension Reactor

Decay sets how long energy remains in the spring model. Higher settings increase sustain and make interactions between new transients and the existing tail more obvious.

Tone changes the spectral balance of the tank and recovery path. Lower settings darken the spring response; higher settings retain more upper-frequency detail.

Drive increases excitation and nonlinearity in the spring-driving circuit. It affects how strongly the input hits the tank rather than acting as one generic distortion stage after the reverb.

Dispersion changes the relationship between the spring modes. Moving it can create pitch-like bends, chirps, smearing, and changes in the apparent mechanical tension.

Dry/Wet crossfades between the original input and the complete spring-reverb output.

Fresh transients interact with motion already in the tank, so identical hits can produce slightly different reinforcement, cancellation, and decay behavior.

Bright Spring selects the brighter tank model. Existing presets created before the mode was added load with it switched off.

Tone works across a higher frequency range in Bright Spring mode, allowing the brighter decay to be softened or opened further.

Drive uses a smoother asymmetric drive response in Bright Spring mode to add density without forcing the upper spring register into excessive rattling.

Decay controls the brighter tank tail while internal damping limits metallic ringing and unstable sustain.

Changing spring mode clears the current tail so energy from one model is not carried into the other.

1-4 select a slot and show its stored values.

Copy / Paste copies or pastes the complete five-control state of the selected slot.

Random creates a new randomized state for the selected slot.

Holding a main parameter while sequencing writes only that value into every incoming slot passed during the gesture. The control does not jump at slot changes, and all other parameters continue their own slew.

CLK OFF stops automatic stepping. Slots remain available for manual selection, and Slew still shapes transitions to manually selected or randomized states.

CLK INT runs from the internal clock. Rate is displayed in Hz and uses an exponential response for useful control at slower speeds.

CLK HOST runs from the DAW transport and changes Rate to musical divisions.

Rate sets internal speed or host-clock division, depending on the selected clock source.

Slew sets transition time with the clock off. In clocked modes it becomes a percentage of each step, reaching the incoming slot at the next boundary when set to 100%.

A short minimum transition is retained at the lowest setting to reduce clicks when stored values change abruptly.

Slot selection, Slew, internal Rate, and host Sync Division are exposed to host automation.

Preset arrows step through available presets and wrap between the first and last entries.

Preset name opens the preset browser.

Name generates a preset name.

Save writes the complete state. Saving without first generating a name creates one automatically.

Factory / User / Starting Points / Favorites filter the preset browser.

Versioned Save writes a numbered copy when the current preset has changed.

Folder opens the preset directory for external renaming or deletion.

Refresh reloads externally renamed or deleted preset files.