WAYLORD

Reaches Sine/Saw/Square/Pulse, CDG Rotator, Waylo Xfade2's square half, and the sample voices (Vintage Vibe, Waylo Tele, Sustain Steel and the SD instruments) — on those, Attack sets the fade-in length and Release the fade-out, with Decay/Sustain unused since the recording provides its own decay. Not mda/FM/Guitar, which have their own envelopes. Attack also sets how quickly a sample speaks: at the factory default (2) every sampled note fades in over ~31ms.

Default filter brightness for Sine/Saw/Square/Pulse and CDG Rotator, until the mod wheel is touched (then it takes over live). New patches start at about 3000Hz.

Applied to the final mix, after the EQ. Tremolo pulses both channels together; Pan-tremolo sweeps left-right instead.

One EQ on each instrument, like a mixer channel: it follows the instrument wherever it's panned, and a slot's double goes through its EQ too. Low/Mid/High are gain (centre = unity, which switches that EQ off entirely). Mid sweep moves where the low/mid/high split sits (100Hz–5kHz).

Save commits whatever's currently live and writes all 10 patch slots to the Pod's flash in one go. On Connect, this page reads the 10 patches back FROM the device.

Banks on this computer — a bank is everything the Pod holds: all 10 patches plus every global setting (effects, organ, 4-Op, velocity curves, sample starts, tracking). Save downloads it as a file; Load sends a file's bank to the Pod, which takes around half a minute because each patch's instruments load from the SD card on the way. Loading replaces what's live but doesn't write flash — press Save all patches to device afterwards to keep it.

One patch on this computer — just the patch you have selected (both slots and everything saved with the patch, including its effects), not the globals. Save downloads it; Load sends it into whichever patch is selected at the time, so you can move a patch from one slot to another, or from one bank to another. Like a bank, loading replaces what's live — press Save all patches to device to keep it.

Update the firmware — needs Chrome or Edge. The Pod is asked to reboot into its bootloader, the file is written, and it restarts on its own. On Windows the bootloader needs a WinUSB driver (Zadig) before the browser can talk to it. If an update is interrupted the Pod sits in its bootloader and nothing is lost: run this again.

What the hardware's own controls do, with nothing plugged in but MIDI.

Nothing here needs the editor: patches, knobs and the mod wheel all work standalone, from whatever was last saved to the device.

Sends Note On/Off so you can hear it without a MIDI keyboard plugged in.

The Pod's output level, after every effect — the one setting that stays global, the same in every patch. 0dB is where it always sat; up to +10.8dB, which can clip on loud patches.

How hard MIDI velocity drives level, across every engine. 1.00 is raw velocity (how it behaved before); higher pushes soft hits further down so playing dynamics count for more.

Keyboard & velocity tracking — every engine, on top of its own built-in tracking.

Key sliders, measured from middle C: + brighter going up, − brighter going down (and darker going up). Key → Filter moves filter cutoff on the synths and a brightness tilt on the sampled instruments; Key → FM moves FM modulation depth and feedback (DX10, 4-Op, FM Rhodes, Xfade2) and pulse width. Vel → Tone moves both: + harder is brighter, − harder is darker. Vel → Filter is the filter side on its own: it moves filter cutoff on the synths and the brightness tilt on the sampled instruments, on top of Vel → Tone. Vel → FM is the same but for the FM engines only (DX10, 4-Op PM, FM Rhodes, Xfade2 — and pulse width on Pulse), on top of Vel → Tone. Vel → Feedback moves operator feedback, which only the 4-Op PM engine has: + harder bites harder, and it's capped where feedback turns to noise. Vel boost multiplies velocity up to ×4: soft playing gets louder and brighter, and hard playing goes past full level, so it can clip on purpose.

Saved per patch. Classic is the old Waylinator synth's chorus and delay, exactly: knob 1 is the chorus's dry/wet, depth and rate together, knob 2 the three fixed delay taps (0.75s centre, left and right, their own feedback). The sliders below only set the WAYLORD ones.

Chorus — knob 1 sweeps up to the wet level.

Delay — knob 2 sweeps up to the wet and feedback levels.

Phaser — four allpass stages swept smoothly. Classic uses every slider below; Phase 90 models the MXR pedal (script logo), so only Wet and Rate (its Speed knob) apply. Wet at 0 is bypass.

Reverb — last in the chain. Plate: Dattorro's plate. Hall: an 8-line feedback delay network, long and smooth (Decay: about 0.8s to 8s). Room: Freeverb, shorter and denser. Wet at 0 is bypass.

Harmonic tremolo — fades between the bands either side of the crossover in antiphase, so the wobble moves through the spectrum rather than just the level.

Ring mod — mda RingMod: the mix is multiplied by a sine. Wet at 0 is bypass.

A bigger, browser-only snapshot library (unlimited). Loading one here previews it live without touching any of the 10 device patch slots.