Echo

About Echo

The echo effect is a multi-tap delay effect. Multi-tap means that you can add several delays (up to eight) with arbitrary delay times and gains. Two different timing modes are offered, the BPM (Beats per minute) mode or the milliseconds mode. In the BPM mode, the time delay of each tap is specified in beats.

User Interface

Parameter Settings

• Dry Level

The amount of unprocessed signal in the output mix.

• Echo Level

The amount of processed signal in the output mix.

• Echogram

This depicts the gain versus time for the configured taps. You can add new delay taps by clicking the left mouse button where you want the new delay tap to appear in the echogram visualization, shown by the green box below.

Below we can see the result of clicking in roughly the center of the visualization. A tap has been added at about 0.5 seconds.

To move a delay tap, click an existing point (shown by the red arrow above) and keep the mouse button down while moving the mouse pointer to the new location. You can remove an existing delay tap by double clicking the tap you want to remove.

• Range

This button allows you to modify the amount of time shown in the echogram. With the time mode in seconds, this can be set between 0.1 second and 5 seconds. With the time mode in beats, this can be set between 1/16 beat and 8 beats.

• Delay (s) or Delay (beats)

This lets you specify the amount of time audio is delayed (in seconds or beats) before it is sent to the output. In the echogram, it affects the horizontal position of the tap.

• Gain (dB)

The individual tap is present by this amount in the output. In the echogram, it affects the vertical position of the tap.

• Feedback (dB)

The feedback percentage specifies the amount of attenuation since the last delay interval.

• High cut frequency (Hz)

This allows you to change the cut-off frequency of the low pass filter in the feedback loop. The low pass filter can be enabled or disabled by clicking the check box underneath the knob.

• Ping pong echo

This check box provides for a bouncing stereo delay.

• Time Mode

Select either beats per minute for the BPM mode or seconds.

• Beats per minute

Here you can specify the tempo by entering the number of beats per minute.

• Snap mode

To make it easier to adjust the delay of each tap without loosing the alignment to the tempo, you can optionally turn on the snap mode. This option will only be enabled when the time mode is in beats.