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Every effect

All 59 effects: the live effects on the Perform screen, the mixer effects grouped by what they do to a sound, and the background effects. Hover or tap a setting to read what it does.

LIVE·16 effects

A bitcrusher that roughens your sound by lowering its sample rate.

LIVE · CRUSHOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the lower the sample rate.

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A trigger-based pitch shift that moves all your pads up or down.

LIVE · PITCHOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

Above the middle of the bar, all pads play higher.

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A comb filter with a delay time you control.

LIVE · COMBOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the slower the delay time.

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Ring modulation at a speed you control.

LIVE · RINGOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the faster the modulation.

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A stereo reverb that opens up as you go higher.

LIVE · REVERBOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the bigger and longer the reverb.

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A beat repeat locked to your song’s tempo.

LIVE · STUTTEROn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the shorter the repeats.

Range 1/2 bar to 1/64 bar

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A threshold gate that decides how loud a sound must be for you to hear it.

LIVE · GATEOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the higher the threshold.

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Resonant high-pass and low-pass filters, one on each side of the middle.

LIVE · FILTEROn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the VANILLA page.

SLIDE UP

Above the middle of the bar, you get the high-pass filter.

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A gate locked to your song’s tempo, which mutes the sound in rhythm.

LIVE · CUTTEROn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the faster the muting.

Range 1 bar to 1/64 bar

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A reverse effect with a time you control.

LIVE · REVERSEOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the longer the reverse time.

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A dub delay whose time and feedback change together.

LIVE · DUBOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the slower the delay and the longer the feedback.

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A stereo delay with a length you control.

LIVE · TEMPO DELAYOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the longer the delay.

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A talkbox effect that gives your sound vowel shapes.

LIVE · TALKBOXOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE

Moves between different vowel sounds.

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A flanger and a wobble effect sharing one bar.

LIVE · VIBROFLANGEOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

Above the middle of the bar, you get the flanger.

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An overdrive.

LIVE · DIRTYOn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher you go, the more overdrive you get.

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A one-control compressor that ducks your sound harder at higher settings.

LIVE · COMPRESSOROn the Perform screen. On a phone held upright, it’s on the STRAWBERRY page.

SLIDE UP

The higher the setting, the more drastic the ducking.

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DYNAMICS·5 effects

Turns down the loud parts so that the level sits more evenly, and its timing controls can also change how transients come through.

DYNAMICS · COMPRESSORTap a free mixer slot and choose COMPRESSOR.

MAKEUP

Switches makeup gain, which in general terms gives back the level that compression takes away.

Range on/off

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Slices peaks flat, to add loudness and bite or to stop them before they reach a limiter.

DYNAMICS · CLIPPERTap a free mixer slot and choose CLIPPER.

IN

Gain on the way in. Turn it up to hit the clipper harder.

Range -36–36 dB

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A lookahead limiter meant for mastering, which holds down the peaks of a finished mix.

DYNAMICS · LIMITERTap a free mixer slot and choose LIMITER.

GAIN

Turns the signal up or down at the limiter.

Range -18.0–18.0 dB

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Silences a signal whenever it drops under the level you choose.

DYNAMICS · NOISE GATETap a free mixer slot and choose NOISE GATE.

THRESHOLD

Anything quieter than this gets shut out.

Range -60–0 dB

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A sidechain compressor, where the level of a second signal, the source, decides how far the channel’s volume is pulled down.

DYNAMICS · SIDECHAINTap a free mixer slot and choose SIDECHAIN.

SOURCE

The signal doing the controlling: the mic or one of the buses.

Range MIC, BUS A–D

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FILTER/EQ·6 effects

A parametric EQ with three bands, for shaping the tone of a channel.

FILTER/EQ · EQTap a free mixer slot and choose EQ.

LOW SHELF/HI PASS

The bottom band, whose name gives its two roles: a low shelf or a high-pass filter.

Range -18–18 dB

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A filter with several types, which your input level or an LFO can set in motion.

FILTER/EQ · FILTERTap a free mixer slot and choose FILTER.

FILTER TYPE

Picks the kind of filter, including the more vocal Talkbox and Wah Wah.

Range Lo-pass, Hi-pass, Talkbox, Wah Wah

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Keeps one band of frequencies and removes everything either side of it.

FILTER/EQ · BANDPASSTap a free mixer slot and choose BANDPASS.

FREQ

Where the band that gets through sits in the frequency range.

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Takes away the frequencies above a point you choose.

FILTER/EQ · HI-CUTTap a free mixer slot and choose HI-CUT.

FREQ

The point above which frequencies get filtered out.

Range 50 Hz to 20.0 kHz

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Takes away the frequencies below a point you choose.

FILTER/EQ · LO-CUTTap a free mixer slot and choose LO-CUT.

FREQ

The point below which frequencies get filtered out.

Range 50 Hz to 20.0 kHz

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Three separate band levels in the style of a DJ mixer, each of which can vanish completely or sit at full level.

FILTER/EQ · ISOLATORTap a free mixer slot and choose ISOLATOR.

LO, MID, HI

One level for each band. Right at the bottom, the setting reads CUT.

Range 0–100%

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DELAY/REVERB·4 effects

An echo with its own filter, which you can lock to your song’s tempo.

DELAY/REVERB · DELAYTap a free mixer slot and choose DELAY.

DELAY

The time between repeats, set separately for LEFT and RIGHT. It runs in bars with TEMPO SYNC on.

Range 0 ms to 2.50 sec / 1/64–8 bars

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An echo modelled on analogue tape loops, with a wobble you can adjust.

DELAY/REVERB · TAPE DELAYTap a free mixer slot and choose TAPE DELAY.

DELAY

The time between repeats.

Range 10.0 ms to 2.50 sec

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A no-frills reverb with just a few controls.

DELAY/REVERB · FREEVERBTap a free mixer slot and choose FREEVERB.

SIZE

How big the space is.

Range 0.0000–1.0

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A plate-style reverb, whose tail is bright and thick.

DELAY/REVERB · PLATE REVERBTap a free mixer slot and choose PLATE REVERB.

DRY/WET

The balance between your original sound and the reverb.

Range 0–100%

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MODULATION·6 effects

A traditional chorus, which makes a sound wider and thicker.

MODULATION · CHORUSTap a free mixer slot and choose CHORUS.

RATE

How fast the modulation runs.

Range 0.1–10 Hz

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The sweeping, jet-like sound of a flanger.

MODULATION · FLANGERTap a free mixer slot and choose FLANGER.

RATE

How fast the flanger sweeps.

Range 0.00000–20 Hz

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A swirling phaser, with a choice of how many stages it uses.

MODULATION · PHASERTap a free mixer slot and choose PHASER.

RATE

How fast the phaser sweeps.

Range 0–10 Hz

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Moves a sound around the stereo field, at a free speed or locked to your tempo.

MODULATION · AUTOPANTap a free mixer slot and choose AUTOPAN. The screenshots in Koala’s manual label it AUTO PAN.

DEPTH

How far the sound travels.

Range 0.00–100%

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A ring modulator with an LFO of its own, which you can lock to your tempo.

MODULATION · RING MODTap a free mixer slot and choose RING MOD.

FREQ

The frequency of the ring modulation.

Range 1.0 Hz to 8.00 kHz

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Works in the frequency domain to move a signal up or down by as much as an octave.

MODULATION · PITCH SHIFTTap a free mixer slot and choose PITCH SHIFT.

PITCH

How far to shift the signal.

Range -12 to +12 semitones

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CHARACTER·4 effects

Digital damage from lowering the sample rate and bit depth, with jitter you can adjust.

CHARACTER · BITCOOKERTap a free mixer slot and choose BITCOOKER.

SAMPLERATE

The sample rate it reduces the signal to.

Range 800 Hz to 44.000 kHz

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Simple distortion, made by waveshaping.

CHARACTER · DRIVETap a free mixer slot and choose DRIVE.

DRIVE

How hard you push the distortion.

Range 0.000–36 dB

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The wandering pitch of a turntable or a cassette, recreated.

CHARACTER · WARBLETap a free mixer slot and choose WARBLE.

VINYL

The record on screen. Hold it, and the audio pauses.

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Gives a pad or synth the contours of speech, using a voice signal as the modulator.

CHARACTER · VOCODERTap a free mixer slot and choose VOCODER.

SYNTH

The carrier: the sound that gets shaped. VOICE SYNTH is the built-in synth, and THIS BUS is the audio on this channel.

Range VOICE SYNTH, THIS BUS

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UTILITY·6 effects

A handy set of mixing helpers, for choosing channels, setting gain and flipping phase.

UTILITY · UTILITYTap a free mixer slot and choose UTILITY.

CHANNEL

Which signal passes: stereo, only the left, only the right, or left and right together in mono.

Range Stereo, Left, Right, L+R Mono

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Reads out peak, RMS and LUFS levels as low as -90 dB, plus a spectrum and a waveform, at any point in a chain.

UTILITY · METERTap a free mixer slot and choose METER.

VU

VU meters, along with short-term, momentary and integrated LUFS.

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Tunes an instrument from the signal on its channel, with nothing to set.

UTILITY · TUNERTap a free mixer slot and choose TUNER.

Puts your microphone’s signal straight onto a mixer channel.

UTILITY · MICTap a free mixer slot and choose MIC.

GAIN

Sets the level of the mic signal.

Range -18–18 dB

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A signal generator. Use it to test your setup, or to give the vocoder and sidechain something to work on.

UTILITY · TEST TONETap a free mixer slot and choose TEST TONE.

PITCH

The frequency of the signal.

Range 20 Hz to 20 kHz

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Spreads a mono signal into wide stereo, and leaves the bass in the middle.

UTILITY · STEREOIZERTap a free mixer slot and choose STEREOIZER.

SPREAD

How wide the stereo image gets.

Range 0–100%

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BACKGROUND·12 effects

Cuts the picture into turning strips, so it looks like a window blind.

BACKGROUND · BLINDSWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to BLINDS.

SPEED

How fast the strips turn.

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Breaks the picture into circular bands that turn against each other.

BACKGROUND · RINGSWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to RINGS.

SPEED

How fast the rings turn.

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Keeps the picture zooming, turning and warping all at once, without a pause.

BACKGROUND · ZOOM WARPWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to ZOOM WARP.

SPEED

How fast it turns and zooms.

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Keeps the picture zooming without end, with the centre as its anchor.

BACKGROUND · ZOOMWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to ZOOM.

SPEED

How fast the zoom travels.

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Bends the picture out of shape.

BACKGROUND · WARPWARPWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to WARPWARP.

AMOUNT

How strong the bending is.

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Gives the picture interlaced lines, the look you’d associate with a CCTV monitor.

BACKGROUND · TVWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to TV.

QUALITY

The quality of the interlacing.

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Blends a kaleidoscope with psychedelic visuals.

BACKGROUND · KALEIDODELICWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to KALEIDODELIC.

NUMLOOPS

How many loops sit inside each section.

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Makes the picture break up like a malfunctioning computer screen.

BACKGROUND · GLITCHWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to GLITCH.

FREQUENCY

How fast the glitches come.

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Separates the picture into red, green and blue layers and slides them over each other.

BACKGROUND · HUEYWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to HUEY.

RGB

How far the layers slide.

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Reflects the picture around its centre into two moving halves.

BACKGROUND · MIRRORWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to MIRROR.

SPEED

How fast the picture moves.

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Rolls the picture along in one direction, forever.

BACKGROUND · SCROLLWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to SCROLL.

SPEED

How fast the picture rolls.

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Leaves the picture still, with nothing moving it.

BACKGROUND · NONEWith an image chosen in the EXTRAS settings, set Background Effect to NONE.