Half Time

Slow It to Half Speed and Keep It Alive.

Hold Engage and the music drops into half time.

Hold Engage and the music slows to a fraction of its speed, half by default, with the pitch dropping along with it like a deck, and it stays there for as long as you hold the button. Let go and it speeds back up, and with Land On set it reaches full speed exactly on the next beat, half note or bar. Full Stop Shop goes to a stop, Half Time stays moving.

Speed is a four position knob, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 or 3/4 of normal speed. Slow Time is how long it takes to get down there and Return Time is how long it takes to come back, each from 50 ms to 4 seconds or synced to the host from a 1/16 note up to 2 bars, and Curve is Linear or Exponential.

While it's slowed the plugin falls behind the live signal, and Recover decides how it gets back, Snap crossfades to live in about 30 ms, Nudge runs 10 percent fast until it catches up. Hold it for a very long time and it resyncs itself at 12 seconds, so nothing breaks.

Color and Presets

Pick a Color. Start From a Preset.

The Color knob changes the whole faceplate to any hue, fluorescent green by default, and it's a preference saved on your machine, not part of a preset or a session. Power Off turns the faceplate dark and passes the audio through untouched.

Ten factory presets plus Default are starting points, Classic Half Time, Quarter Crawl, Third Speed, Slow Roll, Quick Drag, Bar Drop, Beat Catch, Lazy Return, Tape Drag and Grid Snap, and A/B, Save, Save As, Copy, Delete, Import and Export handle your own. The window resizes and remembers its size.