Absinthe

The Green Muse

At its simplest, Absinthe has a one-to-three-tap delay that dances the ears with harmonically rich decay. Should someone succumb to the Green Muse, one could get lost in its complex, endlessly dense samples and evolutions. Although not unique, controls differ from normal delays. Parameters such as block size, spacing, and elasticity determine how the sound is captured, while grain and age control the quality of the delay repeat.

Things take a dark turn when the Sonic Flâneur uses the auto-grab control, and a block is set to repeat. Purge kills what the Gentleperson has snatched, and Freeze allows soloing over the pad. The pattern and pan controls allow different types of evolution, and further manipulation of time can be obtained from the gears section with different ratios, with slip and backlash.

If this wasn’t enough, further perversions of the notes can be obtained from an auto filter on the repeats and sullied further with a valve-style overdrive and fail.

Use with recklessness and abandonment.