Ingenious proprietary techniques in control and display technology are employed to make the engineer's life easier without compromise to performance or versatility. For example, FAST and AUTO Attack modes have been optimized for accurate and transparent performance over the widest variety of programmed material. AUTO mode continually regulates the gate's speed of response by analysis of the harmonic and dynamic content of the input signal. Hence, source types ranging from percussion to bass guitar - even voice - can all be gated fast and distortion free with the minimum of attention from the operator.

FAST mode offers an outstanding 20ms Attack time to handle consistently the most demanding percussion and synthesizer transients. As a further aid to rapid set up, the RELEASE control not only adjusts for decay response of the gate channel but simultaneously sets an appropriate Hold period which tracks proportionally with the Release time. This relationship combines with a special, audio-tapered Release characteristic to give subtle, 'musical' envelope shaping using only a single control.