Exploring Echo’s creative tools

Live’s new delay has plenty of cool sound shaping tools. Let’s check out a few of them...

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Echo’s input stage features a switch for engaging hardware-style drive, press the D button and push up the input level for a touch of gritty clipping distortion. The is applied to both the dry and wet signals.

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Echo’s reverb can be applied either to the full signal, Pre or Post delay, or to just the feedback loop. This latter option is great in conjunction with Ducking, in the Character window, for long reverb soaked delays which dip out of the way of the dry signal.

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In the Character window, Noise, Wobble and Repitch can emulate vintage hardware. Noise adds tape style noise, with the Morph control adding movement to the noise type. Wobble adds analogue-style pitch drift. With Repitch engaged, changes to the delay time also alter the wet signal pitch, mimicking a hardware tape echo.

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Echo’s Modulation window has a multimode LFO which can modulate delay time and/or the cutoff points of the two filters. Try experimenting by modulating the delay time with Repitch engaged, for a whole load of cool pitch-drifting effects.

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The Modulation window also has a less obvious envelope follower. This applies modulation that tracks the input signal. It’s engaged using the Env Mix in the bottom right. At 100% modulation will follow only the envelope, at 0.0% it will follow only the LFO. Any value between these balances the two mod sources.