Delay

The Delay FX produces repeating echoes of the audio routed through it, with filtering and saturation in the feedback path for everything from clean digital repeats to dark tape-style echoes. Like all FX, it receives audio via Delay Lines or its external input channel.

Delay Properties#

• Tempo Sync: Enable this to provide a beat subdivision for the delay time instead of a raw time duration. When enabled, the Time slider is replaced by the Sync Division selector.
• Time: The base delay time.
• Sync Division: The tempo-synced beat division for the delay time, from 1/2 down to 1/32, including dotted and triplet variants.
• Spread: How much to spread out the delay between the two left/right channels. A value of 0 means no spread; positive values make the left delay longer than the right, and negative values the reverse.
• Feedback: The feedback gain. Higher values will produce repeated echoes.
• Cross Feedback: How much each left/right channel's delay output reads from the opposite channel. A value of 0 means no crossover (each side feeds itself), while 1 is a full ping-pong (left feeds right and right feeds left).
• High-Pass: The high-pass cutoff in the feedback path. Higher values cut more low-frequency build-up across repeats.
• Low-Pass: The low-pass cutoff in the feedback path. Lower values darken each repeat for a tape feel.
• Drive: Soft saturation in the feedback path. A value of 0 is a clean digital delay; 1 gives tape-style compression that thickens repeats and tames runaway feedback.
• Mod Rate: The rate of the sine LFO that modulates the delay time for tape-wow or chorus character.
• Mod Depth: The depth of the modulation LFO. Low values give subtle pitch-bend warmth; high values give a chorus-like wobble.
• Width: Stereo width of the delay effect. A value of 0 collapses to mono, 1 is natural stereo, and values above 1 over-emphasize the side channel for an exaggerated stereo image.