Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Lexicon PSP 42 is a high-quality digital stereo delay and phrase sampler plug-in based on the legendary Lexicon PCM 42 processor famous for its unique concept and distinctive sound.
Lexicon PSP 42 now offers four different levels of emulation, with the user able to select how much of the original hardware’s sonic character to enable at any given time. In addition to the original plug-in’s Legacy mode, which puts tape saturation before the A/D converter, there are three new modes:
• Clean: a pristine signal path with no emulations
• Lims: engages the original hardware’s two opto limiters, one at the input and one just before the A/D – the first affecting Dry and Wet signals, and the second affecting Wet and Feedback signals
• Full: also engages emulation of the original A/D and D/A converters in the hardware PCM 42, whose non-linear behavior added a unique sonic twist.
For the ultimate in faithfulness, Lexicon PSP 42x even has a Bypass button that leaves the input limiter in the signal path, providing a subtle, realistic coloration to “dry” signals.
New options in creativity
Other new features expand the plug-in’s capabilities far beyond that of the original hardware.
• Maximum delay time is now an amazing 28800 milliseconds – nearly a half minute
• The Hi Cut filter’s cutoff frequency, formerly fixed at 6 kHz, can now be adjusted from 2–18 kHz
• The LFO can now be synchronized to host tempo
• The Envelope Follower response can now be inverted and/or sidechained from another source
• Four different Direction modes allow echoes and feedback to be reversed or bounced
• and much more!
Lexicon PSP 42 is a high-quality digital stereo delay and phrase sampler plug-in based on the legendary Lexicon PCM 42 processor famous for its unique concept and distinctive sound.
Lexicon PSP 42 now offers four different levels of emulation, with the user able to select how much of the original hardware’s sonic character to enable at any given time. In addition to the original plug-in’s Legacy mode, which puts tape saturation before the A/D converter, there are three new modes:
• Clean: a pristine signal path with no emulations
• Lims: engages the original hardware’s two opto limiters, one at the input and one just before the A/D – the first affecting Dry and Wet signals, and the second affecting Wet and Feedback signals
• Full: also engages emulation of the original A/D and D/A converters in the hardware PCM 42, whose non-linear behavior added a unique sonic twist.
For the ultimate in faithfulness, Lexicon PSP 42x even has a Bypass button that leaves the input limiter in the signal path, providing a subtle, realistic coloration to “dry” signals.
New options in creativity
Other new features expand the plug-in’s capabilities far beyond that of the original hardware.
• Maximum delay time is now an amazing 28800 milliseconds – nearly a half minute
• The Hi Cut filter’s cutoff frequency, formerly fixed at 6 kHz, can now be adjusted from 2–18 kHz
• The LFO can now be synchronized to host tempo
• The Envelope Follower response can now be inverted and/or sidechained from another source
• Four different Direction modes allow echoes and feedback to be reversed or bounced
• and much more!
