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Update rack_xt_manual.mdx for XT 2.2
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XT 2.2 isn't here quite yet but will be soon.
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Can be CPU intensive.
- **Delay**: A Digital Delay, strictly monophonic but supports delays up to 10 seconds and includes
tempo-sync without a block latency delay.
- **Nimbus**: The Surge port of a famous euro-rack granular reverb/delay/spectral manipulator.
- Modulation Effects
- **Phaser**: A digital phaser with many options to control the filter network
- **Flanger**: A flanger with some advanced feedback and tuning options
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- **Distortion**: The name kinda gives it away right?
- **Neuron**: A saturation circuit
- **Chow**: An interesting asymmetric saturator
- **Bonsai**: A broad ranging tape saturation and distortion model.
- Special Effects
- **Frequency Shifter**: A stereo extendible frequency shifter
- **Ring Modulator**: A model of an analog ring modulator, with a multi-shape unison internal carrier
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These modules process modulation input per-block.
The envelopes respond to triggers in a sample accurate manner though, so no latency there.

# Mixer Modules
# Mixer and Manipulator Modules

We have two mixer modules. One is intended for audio signals, the other for modulation, though you can do it "wrong" if you like.

## Mixer
## Mixer and Mixer with Sliders

The Rack Mixer is an implementation of the VST mixer section. It contains

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- Full polyphony and modulation support
- Mute and Solo for each channel

There is a version with knobs, and a version with sliders. They do the same thing, just different face plates.

![Mixer Module](/images/rack-xt-manual/mixer.PNG)

## The Unison Module and Unison CV Expander

The unison module allows non-Surge VCOs to participate in surge unison. It does this by providing
a function which converts a polyphonic v/oct signal into an expanded polyphonic v/oct signal, and then
by collecting and mixing resulting higher-polyphony audio signals into a stereo field. It has an expander
allowing you to route CV along the same polyphony-expansion path, sports a low and high pass filter, and provides
drift and character effects from the Surge VCOs.

Patching the module requires some care. The simplest case is taking a monophonic v/oct in, which then generates a
N-voice polyphonic v/oct out. Patch that to your favorite poly VCO, take the audio output from that VCO back into
the unison module audio in, and you will get a stereo unison.

As voice count increases you may need extra VCOs. The module supports up to 4 subordinate VCOs, allowing up to 64
unison voices, so can add 4-voice unison to 16-way polyphony or up to 9-voice unison with 7 voice polyphony if all the
VCOs are connected.

To see a demonstration of the unison module just before we shipped 2.2, we prepared this [development preview](https://youtu.be/w0fXLlHKLrk)

## The Mod Matrix

We think the Surge modulation matrix model is really great! And it would be great
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