IThe Idea
Tacet is the most absolute instruction in music: this part is silent. Tacet the pedal makes silence rhythmic; a gate that chops your signal into pulses, stutters, and patterns, playing the gaps as deliberately as you play the notes. SHAPE morphs the chop from a smooth sine throb to a hard square slam; PATTERN steps through programmed 16-step grids; gallops, syncopations, three-against-four. Stamp RETRIG and the whole pattern snaps to the top of the bar. And when the built-in grids aren't yours enough, pull the tab on the pedal's right edge: a machined pattern drawer glides out on gear tracks; a 16-step editor where every step is a black-glass bar you draw by hand. Set each step's level, tie steps together, drag in a pitch sequence, frame a loop window; the bars glow on the beat as the pattern runs. It is an instrument made of absence.
IIThe Controls
- RATE
- Speed of the gate; from a slow throb to a fast stutter.
- DEPTH
- How far the gate closes in its off phase. Full = total silence in the gaps.
- SHAPE
- Morphs the gate waveform: sine, triangle, square, pulse.
- SMOOTH
- Slew on the gate edges; hard chops at 0, gentle swells near the top.
- PATTERN
- Selects and blends built-in 16-step on/off grids; straight, syncopated, gallop, 3-against-4, stutter.
- MIX
- Dry/wet. 0 = dry, 1 = fully gated.
IIISwitches & Footswitches
- DIRECTION (3-way)
- Pattern playback order: forward, reverse, or ping-pong.
- GLIDE (3-way)
- How pitched steps move: snap, short glide, or long slide.
- PATTERN TRAY (edge tab)
- The '>' tab slides the 16-step editor drawer out of the enclosure. LEVEL bars (draw), TIE row (tap), PITCH lane (drag ±12 st, with an arpeggio menu), and a loop window with drag handles. Right-click or double-click clears a step.
- SYNC (toggle)
- Locks the gate rate to the host tempo.
- RETRIG (footswitch)
- Snaps the gate and pattern to the start of the bar; stamp it to lock in time. Momentary, with an LED flash.
- BYPASS (footswitch)
- True dry passthrough.
IVStart Here
Straight 8ths
PATTERN straight, SHAPE square, DEPTH full
Hard rhythmic chops in time.
Swell Pad
SMOOTH high, SHAPE sine
Volume swells instead of chops; auto-swell pad.
Helicopter
RATE high, DEPTH full, SHAPE square
Fast machine-gun stutter.
Your Own Groove
open the tray; draw levels on 1, the 'and' of 2, and 4; tie 4 into 1
The gate stops being an effect and becomes your rhythm section.