The Hierophant
mono → stereo
Select a grid button or a stompswitch
A mono delay with a feedback boost and an overdrive companion
A delay and an overdrive, mono in and mono out. The delay keeps running even while it is switched off, so bringing it in hands you echoes of what you just played instead of silence. The drive sits in front and colours both the signal and its repeats; a filter shapes what comes back. Hold the right footswitch and the repeats swell, then fall back when you let go.
By Plume
Demo
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.
This build gets bug fixes and nothing else. The patch carries on as
The Hierophant MKII, which is stereo and where the
new work goes — the two are branches rather than versions, so this one stays
playable and stays mono.
| Short | Hold | Long press | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left | toggle delay | Confessional | — |
| Middle | tap tempo | — | toggle beat sync |
| Right | toggle drive | — | Recitation boost |
Confessional and Recitation boost are the reason the patch exists.
Confessional mutes what is going in while the existing echoes run on, for exactly 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. Careful with one thing: using it while the delay is off also wipes what the background has been recording.
Recitation boost pushes the feedback up and leaves it there — a long press latches it, another drops it back. It saves reaching for mid-song, which is the usual way to lose your place.
The drive sits in front of the delay and feeds both paths, so it colours what you play and what comes back. is how hard it clips, and its own output is set once on the Settings page against the dry.
The two knobs beside it are not the drive's: is the gain into the whole patch — it decides how hard the drive is hit, but lifts the clean path with it — and is what leaves the pedal.
Turning it off with the right switch leaves the delay running.
Tap the middle switch to set the time. Hold it and the delay follows the tempo rather than — the in the middle of the left cross blinks in time when it is.
at the foot of the cross opens the divisions along both arms: halves, thirds and quarters down the left, doubles up the right.
Toggle beat sync in the middle of a phrase: the delay jumps to the new time with everything still in the buffer, and that is where the rewind and the glitches come from.
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 and sharpens it.
There is a fourth state with no filter at all, and that is the one the patch starts on. The launcher tells you 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.