The Hierophant — V

Stereo delay with a feedback boost and a Ghostverb

A stereo delay that keeps recording even when it is switched off. Switch it back on and the echoes of what you just played are already there. The Confessional keeps the echoes it has and stops taking anything new. The Recitation boost swells the feedback and leaves it there. Together, a phrase you have stopped playing keeps growing instead of dying away. A filter and a reverb sit after the delay.

By Plume

The delay never stops running. Switching it off does not empty it — it keeps listening in the background, so when you bring it back there are already echoes of what you just played.

What's new

Since The Hierophant Mono:

Stereo in and stereo out.
The overdrive is gone. A reverb takes its place, after the delay, on the right footswitch.
Six clock divisions in a menu, named as note values.
MIDI clock is on or off, and nothing else. The divisions always apply.
The tap holds steady, and the middle of the right cross shows what is setting the tempo.
Over MIDI: force the delay or the reverb on, or off. Pick a filter type or a clock division from a CC value.

The footswitches

	Short	Hold	Long press
Left	toggle delay	Confessional	—
Middle	tap tempo	—	toggle MIDI clock in
Right	toggle reverb	—	Recitation boost

Confessional mutes what is going in while the existing echoes run on, for as long as your foot is down. It is how you leave a phrase hanging and play over it without the delay taking in what you play next.

Recitation boost pushes the feedback up and leaves it there. A long press latches it, another drops it back — so you never have to reach for mid-song.

The delay is clean. It holds at the top of for as long as you leave it there, instead of falling apart. is where the wobble comes from.

Dry and wet

The two mix knobs do not work the same way.

adds. The dry signal runs past the delay at full level and nothing turns it down, so this knob sets how loud the repeats sit under what you are playing. Turning it up makes the whole thing louder rather than wetter.

replaces, and it applies to everything. The dry and the repeats both go through the reverb on their way out, so at full wet you lose the direct signal and the delay, leaving only the tail. Most of the time you want it well short of that.

Tempo

Three things can set the time, and they override in this order: an incoming MIDI clock, then a tap, then . Tapping overrides the knob; moving the knob hands it back.

at the foot of the cross opens six divisions, one arm each, laid out as they sit on the grid:

straight	off the beat

They apply to a tap and to a clock alike.

A long press on the middle switch toggles . Off, a running clock is ignored and the tempo is yours to tap.

Reading the indicator

The cell in the middle of the left cross says whether the delay is on and what is timing it.

What you see	What it means
dark	delay off
mango — steady	delay on, tempo from
aqua — beating	delay on, tempo from the tap
magenta — beating	delay on, tempo from MIDI clock

It beats on whatever is actually driving the delay, so it stops beating the moment you touch the knob.

The filter

at the foot of the right cross opens three types up the edge: highpass, bandpass, lowpass. The filter sits on the delay output only, so it shapes the echoes without touching what you are playing. moves the corner, both channels together.

There is a fourth state with no filter at all, and that is the one the patch starts on. The launcher shows which you are in without being opened: mango for no filter, then the colour of the type that is running.

An external footswitch can step through them instead, if you would rather not take a hand off.

Beyond the front page

Page holds what you set once and leave: the two resonances, and — how long the delay takes to fade in and out when you switch it, high to swell, low to arrive at once. and shape Recitation boost: how long it takes to arrive and how far it goes.

Page holds one trigger per gesture along the top and what they drive along the bottom, plus for an external switch.

The Hierophant — VMKII Stereo