Plug-in Reference

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MIDI effects
MIDI Echo
This is an advanced MIDI Echo, which will generate addi-
tional echoing notes based on the MIDI notes it receives.
It creates effects similar to a digital delay, but also features
MIDI pitch shifting and much more. As always it is impor-
tant to remember that the effect doesn’t “echo” the actual
audio, but the MIDI notes which will eventually produce
the sound in the synthesizer.
The following parameters are available:
Velocity Offset
This parameter allows you to raise or lower the velocity
values for each repeat so that the echo fades away or in-
creases in volume (provided that the sound you use is ve-
locity sensitive). For no change of velocity, set this to 0
(middle position).
Pitch Offset
If you set this to a value other than 0, the repeating (echo-
ing) notes will be raised or lowered in pitch, so that each
successive note has a higher or lower pitch than the pre-
vious. The value is set in semitones.
For example, setting this to -2 will cause the first echo
note to have a pitch two semitones lower than the original
note, the second echo note two semitones lower than the
first echo note, and so on.
Repeats
This is the number of echoes (1 to 12) from each incom-
ing note.
Beat Align
During playback, the Beat Align parameter quantizes the
position of the first echo note. You can either set this to
“rhythmically exact” values (displayed as note values – see
the table below) or activate the PPQ button and choose a
PPQ value.
Setting this to “1/8”, for example, will cause the first echo
note to sound on the first eighth position after the original
note.
Ö The echo time can also be affected by the Delay De-
cay parameter.
Ö During live mode, this parameter has no effect since
the first echo will always be played together with the note
event itself.
Delay
The echoed notes will be repeated as set up with this pa-
rameter. You can either set this to “rhythmically exact” val-
ues (displayed as note values – see the table below) or
activate the PPQ button and choose a PPQ value. This
makes it easy to find rhythmically relevant delay values, but
still allows experimental settings in between.
Delay Decay
This parameter lets you adjust how the echo time should
be changed with each successive repeat. The value is set
as a percentage.
• When set to 100% (middle position) the echo time will be the
same for all repeats (as set with the Delay parameter).
• If you raise the value above 100%, the echoing notes will play
with gradually longer intervals (i.e. the echo will become
slower).
• If you lower the value below 100%, the echoing notes will be-
come gradually faster, like the sound of a bouncing ball.
Length
This sets the length of the echoed notes. This can either
be identical with the length of the original notes (parame-
ter set to its lowest value) or the length you specify manu-
ally. You can either set this to “rhythmically exact” values
(displayed as note values – see the table below) or activate
the PPQ button and choose a PPQ value.
Ö The length can also be affected by the Length Decay
parameter.