Help with delay FX please

[dizkojockey]

Hi guys, can anyone help me out here understanding how to use delay FX properly? Firstly, many of the delay FX I've used have the normal time settings like 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc, but I've noticed some have the letters "T" and "D" after them (1/4, 1/4D, 1/4T...etc.). What does this mean? Sylenth has this, but I can see anything in the manual explaining it. Also I've purchased a couple of trance templates from MyLoops to learn some professional techniques and they have been extremely helpful and revealed some good pro techniques. I notice also on delays some people delay the left and right channels different amounts. I normally just put both sides equal. Is it incorrect to do this? Thanks for any advice you can give on this, guys.

 

[krushing]

T stands for triplet & D for dotted. Dotted is fairly simple - it's just 1,5 times the length of the note (so 1/4T = 1/4+1/8). Triplets are trickier to just write out like that, but there's plenty of examples on the web/youtube/whatever (including the MIDI files in that wiki article) that lay it out pretty straightforwardly.

Nothing wrong with using a simple delay with the same times on both sides, different timings can just sound very interesting & spacious.