ANTIPHON
( an · tih · fon )
ANSWERS IN THE SPACES YOU LEAVE
A call-and-response delay that listens, then replies in the gaps.
CAESURA · v0.4.1 · Re01
IThe Idea
Antiphon is named for the oldest form of musical conversation; one voice sings a line, another answers from across the room. It does not repeat you so much as reply to you, waiting out the silence you leave before it speaks. Give it room and it becomes a second player: patient, sympathetic, sometimes answering a fifth above. Crowd the spaces and it falls quiet, deferring to you. Played sparingly it is a duet partner; opened up with Wash, it builds a sustaining choir out of your own phrases.
IIThe Controls
- SPACE
- How long it waits before answering. With SYNC on, the gap locks to a note division of the host tempo.
- PRESENCE
- How loud and present the answer sits behind your playing.
- FOLLOW
- Short stabbed replies at one end; longer, complete phrases at the other.
- COLOR
- Chance and depth of the answer arriving transposed; a fifth, an octave; instead of in unison.
- DUCK
- How quickly the answer steps aside when you start playing again.
- MIX
- Balance of you and the answer. Fully left is dry guitar only.
- WASH (fader)
- Down = a single reply. Raise it and the replies regenerate into a sustaining wash.
IIISwitches & Footswitches
- SYNC (toggle)
- Snaps the answer gap to a host tempo division (1/16, 1/8, dotted-8th, 1/4, dotted-4th).
- BYPASS (footswitch)
- True dry passthrough.
IVStart Here
Call & Answer
SPACE ~40, FOLLOW high, COLOR 0, MIX ~40
A clear second voice that answers your phrases in the gaps.
Fifth Voice
COLOR up, FOLLOW mid
Replies arrive transposed; instant harmony partner.
Drone Bed
WASH up, PRESENCE mid, MIX ~50
Phrases regenerate into a sustaining choir to play over.