Echo Farm User Manual Version 2.0
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1. User Manual Version 2 0 Revision A Electrophonic Edition available on Echo Farm CD and from the Support Section of the Line 6 W eb Site at http www line6 com INTRODUCTION LIFE ON THE FARM INTRODUCTION lel LIFE ON THE FARM Thank you for inviting Echo Farm home with you ThisTDM Plug in mines the tonal heritage of the past forty years of echo and delay design and matches it up with the kind of digital signal processing magic that will still be ahead of its time ten years in the future H ow did the Echo Farm get the super processing power to let you create tones that are out of this world It all started like this The Birth of Line 6 Modeling W ell as you may Know Line 6 first came on to the scene with a new kind of guitar amplifier the first to put digital software modeling technology to work ina combo amp for guitarists In order to pioneer this technology we had focused our efforts on the vacuum tube the little glass wonder that had sat at the heart of most every great guitar amp in history plus quite a few stomp boxes effect processors and other pieces of great audio gear The Line 6 crew assembled a dream collection of amplifiers recognized by guitarists the world over as true tone classics and with a guitar in one hand and modern computer measuring gear in the other put these amps through their paces and got them to give up their secrets a guitar pickup output after all isan electronic si2. Repeats Control 1 Control 2 Mix Effect BPM Note Duration Dotted Triplet Ll Ramp Echo Farm Echo Mode None O None O None gt None lt lt Remove Inserts See the latest Pro Tools documentation for up to the minute details on Automation As of this manual writing here are some basics as well as specific details about Echo Farm Enabling Automation Step This dialogue box shows up when you press the Automation button at the top of the Echo Farm window as described on the previous page of this manual It lets you select which Echo Farm controls you would like to automate In general you probably want to automate them all so click on the first item in the list on the UsING ECHO FARM AUTOMATION amp ECHO FARM SETTINGS FILES left and then hold down the shift key and click on the last item in the list to highlight all the Echo Farm controls With all of the items on the left selected click on the Add button at the top center of the dialogue box and all of these Echo Farm controls will be enabled for automation Click OK to close the 2 7 dialogue box Enabling Automation Step 2 In order to actually record and playback automation you will also need to choose Show Automation Enable Window from the Pro Tools Display menu and make sure that plug in automation is enabled The Write Automation selection in the Pro Tools Edit menu and the automation pop up menus on individual tracks and chann
3. record enable the new track and you can permanently commit your post Echo Farm tone to hard disk for posterity If you re using a stereo output configuration of Echo Farm you would of course want to record to two tracks MODELED ECHOS WhicH UNITS ARE MODELED MODELED ECHOS WHICH UNITS ARE MODELED 3 1 Note Echo Farm Echo Farm logo Line 6 and Line 6 logo are trademarks of Line 6 Inc All other products images trademarks and artists names are the property of their respective owners and are used solely for the purpose of describing certain types of tones produced with Line 6 s digital modeling technology which were developed independently by Line6 without the participation of these respective owners Use of these products images trademarks and artist s names does not imply any cooperation or endorsement Tube Echo based on the M aestro Echoplex EP 1 The classic 1963 M aestro EP 1 was the first of a series of Echoplex designs distributed by the company and made by H arris Teller in Chicago As touted in a M aestro advertisement the Echoplex s special effects range all the way from a controlled high speed reverberation to a full throbbing echo The main feature of the Echoplex design is a special cartridge of looped 1 4 inch tape that wraps past separate record and playback heads T he position of the playback head can be moved to adjust the delay time from 60 to 650 milliseconds Echo Farm
4. s Tube Echo emulates the classic Echoplex tone with the extra advantage of up to 2 5 seconds of delay time and no worn out tapes Tape Echo based on the M aestro Echoplex EP 3 A fter the tube based EP 1 and EP 2 M aestro introduced the solid state EP 3 with transistors instead of tubes for the sound electronics The EP 3 uses the same basic MODELED ECHOS WHicH UNITS ARE MODELED mechanical design as the original Echoplex including the looped 1 4 inch tape but does not have the tube distortion sound of the EP 1 EP 3s contributed to many classic recordings of the 70 s Eddie Van H alen and Jimmy Page were both avid EP 3 users Unlike the Tube Echo M odel based on the EP 1 which gives you control of wow flutter and distortion our EP 3 emulation is designed to give you a less distorted tape emulation with adjustable tone controls Sweep Echo ThisM odel isa Line 6 original Starting with the basic tone of our EP 1 tape delay emulation we added a sweeping filter effect to the delay repeats to give you unique new creative possibilities for adjusting the tone of your delays In technical terms the M odulation Speed and M odulation Depth knobs adjust the speed and depth of a sine wave used to modulate the tone of the tape emulation You can use these controls to create and explore your own shifting landscape of tonal possibilities G rab a hold of your guitar or other noise maker of your choice twiddle your Echo Farm s k
5. You can find out about all of the Line 6 products and technologies when you visit our web site at http www line6 com THE FINE PRINT Echo Farm Line 6 the Echo Farm logo and the Line 6 logo are all trademarks of Line 6 Inc Pro Toolsand TDM are trademarks of Digidesign which distributes and provides technical support for Echo Farm 4 1
6. need to set Echo Farm to change tempos to follow your music Note Value Buttons Here you can select a note value to set the delay time Simply use the BPM Tempo display or the Tap button to enter the tempo of your song then select a note value from the Note pop up button The buttons to the right of the note value allow you to modify your selection to become a triplet and or dotted Tap Button You can click on this button a few times to set your delay time The BPM display will then be grayed out to let you know that your delay time no longer matches whatever BPM tempo you might have chosen Time Ramp Button This button lets you choose how you want Echo Farm to handle changes in delay time W ith a real world tape echo speed changes are made by moving a tape head s position or varying the speed of a tape transport motor Asa result time changes are smooth with a pitch shmearing effect that is part of a great tape delay s magic T hat s the experience you ll get with this button on If you want to immediately switch from one delay time to another without any of this pitch shmearing of the delay time click this button off Thisisa handy control to use with the A utomation functions described on page 2 6 allowing you to mix and match time ramping and immediate time changes within your session USING ECHO FARM STANDARD PLUG IN CONTROLS Model Specific Knobs The other knobs that appear on screen for a particular Echo M ode
7. this will sound like a regular old non Ping Pong delay Reverse seltaeB eht dna xirdneH imi ekil tsuj Take a step back in time with your cool new reverse delay W hatever you play in comes back at you backwards delayed by the time you set with the Delay Time knob 1 25 seconds max Sure if you didn t have the Echo Farm Reverse model you could play a whole track in reverse it and then listen to the play back but that s not nearly as much fun To use this little wonder most effectively try playing a legato lick ignoring the reverse playback as well as you can Longer licks can translate into very cool reverse phrases A Iso when using Reverse try setting Mix to its maximum fully clockwise position 100 wetness so all you hear isthe reversed sound welcome to the world of instant backwards guitar solo madness Some nifty things to try Set a very short delay time this will give you a weird resonant filter effect A nd for you advanced sonic explorers Start playback and sweep the delay time from short to long for the hippest time warp ever available on a digital audio workstation Dynamic Delay T his M odel was inspired by the tc electronics 2290 The tc electronic 2290 Dynamic Digital Delay helped to make this sort of delay effect popular It s a sort of smart volume control for your delay effect s echoes and sets the loudness of the delay echoes based on how hard loud you play your instrument or ot
8. Paths As you will notice in the graphs below there is a difference in the way Echo Farm processes a mono signal at 44 1 48 kHz versus 88 2 96 kHz At 44 1 48 kHz a mono signal is split into two effects paths but only a single effect path is present at 88 2 96 kHz due to the increased processing power needed at the higher sample rates An audible difference is most noticeable when using the Echo Farm delay models which include modulation such as Mod Sweep or Wow amp Flutter The difference is subtle with low amounts of modulation but may be more audible with higher amounts of modulation Echo Farm Mono Signal Paths The d represents the effect path and the between them represents interaction with the modulation phases such as Mod Sweep or Wow amp Flutter 44 1 48 kHz mono track d EE d 88 2 96 kHz mono track d Additional Echo Farm Signal Paths 44 1 48 kHz mono in stereo out track d d 44 1 48 kHz stereo track d d INTRODUCTION INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE 14 What Gets Installed The Echo Farm plug in gets installed in the Plug Ins folder within your DAE folder inside the System Folder of your system hard disk A library of Echo Farm presets gets installed in the Plug In Settings folder within your DAE folder inside the System Folder of your system hard disk USING ECHO FARM EcHo FARM CONTROLS USING ECHO FARM The following discussion o
9. Wow amp Flutter knob THE WRAP UP CUSTOMER SUPPORT Digidesign provides customer support services for Echo Farm The Product Registration amp Customer Services Information booklet that you received in your Echo Farm package gives you all the details on accessing these support services Be sure to send in the registration card so that we can contact you when Echo Farm updates are available T his will insure that you don t get stuck messing about with old bugs when new bug fixes are available for the asking OTHER LINE 6 PRODUCTS Looking for a hardware version of Echo Farm H ow about a collection of great amp tones T he modeling technology of Line 6 is available in stand alone amplifiers from Line 6 the acclaimed POD series products for guitar and bass the Amp Farm plug in and a line of Stomp Box M odelers which feature all of the delay models contained in Echo Farm as well as many other delay modulation and distortion effects The amps and PO Ds feature the same great tones as our plug in A mp Farm plus additional A mp M odels built in effects programmable channels foot control options MIDI and more so when it s time to step out of the studio to take your act on the road you can take all the great Line 6 sounds from your recording sessions with you POD POD Pro and the Stomp Box M odelers are especially perfect for any recording situation where your Pro Tools rig isn t handy or in addition to it CONTACTING LINE 6
10. c deviations for you Analog Echo with Mod based on the Deluxe M emory Man This model is based on the Electro H armonix Deluxe M emory M an a pedal that uses the bucket brigade electronics of other analog echoes and also adds a chorus circuit T his adjustable chorus is applied to the echoes only leaving the direct sound unaffected T his popular pedal with its warm distorted tone and MODELED ECHOS WuhicH UNITS ARE MODELED swimming echoes became an important tool for many guitarists and was an essential part of the guitar sounds for the first U2 album Part of the Deluxe in Deluxe M emory M an was the increased delay time of 500 milliseconds Echo Farm s A nalog Echo emulates classic M emory M an tone with the added advantage of 2 5 seconds of delay time Lo Res Delay The first digital delay units were introduced in the early 80 s T hese pedals and rack boxes took advantage of emerging digital technology to provide musicians and recording engineers with longer delay times Unlike the 16 bit digital of today s C Ds and the even higher resolution provided by some audio gear like the 24 Bit processing of your TDM system these early digital units generally had only 8 bit resolution Low bit resolution can create a unique sort of grunge and noise that is sometimes just the sound you re looking for and that s why these old delays are still used by some musicians these days to give a particular shape to the sounds that a
11. els can then be used to control automation recording playback and editing All of Echo Farm s capabilities in this regard are made to follow the Digidesign standards so please refer to your Pro Tools documentation for details Control and Control 2 W hile most of the parameter names shown in the A utomation dialogue box are pretty recognizable there are two Control I and Control 2 which require a bit of explanation In addition to the standard controls delay time repeats mix etc each model has two parameters that are unique to it T hese are listed in the table on the next page which shows which of these model specific parameters is addressed as Control I and which as Control 2 in the A utomation functions On the on screen display graphics Control 1 is always the left extra function for that model and Control 2 isthe right one Take a look at the Tape Echo model based on the Echoplex EP 3 for example the knobs Bass and Treble from left to right correspond to Control 1 and Control 2 UsING ECHO FARM AUTOMATION amp ECHO FARM SETTINGS FILES Model Control Control 2 Tube Echo Echoplex EP Wow amp Flutter Drive Tape Echo Echoplex EP 3 Bass Treble Multi Head Roland RE 101 n a n a Sweep Echo Sweep Speed Sweep Depth Analog Delay Boss DM 2 Bass Treble Analog w Mod Deluxe Memory Man Mod Speed Mod Depth Lo Res Delay Tone Bit Reduction Digital Delay w Mod Modulation Speed Mod
12. f Echo Farm recording and mixing techniques assumes you are 20 running Echo Farm with Pro Tools software as opposed to a TDM compatible sequencer package like Performer Vision Logic or Cubase The concepts are pretty similar with the sequencers so apart from differences in appearance and nomenclature this should all work with whatever software you are using ECHO FARM CONTROLS N ow that you re all set for Echo Farming we ll use the next few pages to go through the various Echo Farm controls and see what they do But first The Basics of Mouse Control A II the Echo Farm knob controls are set up to be controlled with a left to right or up and down mouse motion Click on aknob you want to move and then drag to the left or down to turn the knob down Drag to the right or up to turn a knob up Don t try to click on a knob and move your mouse around in a circular motion to turn it as if you were actually touching it The Echo Farm buttons are generally set up for single click operation Click on a button to change from one of its two states to the other Click again to change it back The exception isthe note button click and hold for a pop up note selection drag to the note you want and release Details follow on the next couple of pages USING ECHO FARM EcHo FARM CONTROLS Echo Model Pop up Bottom of the panel Thisis where you select the Echo M odel you would like Echo Farm to use Click and hold your mouse button o
13. g fixes without which you might otherwise record second rate tracks corrupt all your sessions and erase your Pro Tools hard drives alright so we re exaggerating a little bit but you get the idea W e already put the postage on the darn thing and wouldn t have made it if it wasn t important so please take the two minutes required to fill it out and send it our way Echo Farm DSP Requirements The number of Echo Farm Plug Ins you can use at one time depends on how much DSP power is available in your system Since the TDM hardware on Pro Tools cards provide dedicated DSP for plug ins plug in performance isn t limited by CPU processing power Note On Pro Tools 24 MIX Core or Farm cards Echo Farm is limited to the two available DRAM chips per card Pro Tools HD Core Process Card Sample Rate DSP Chips Used Per Instance Available DSP Chips kHz Per Card 44 1 48 Mono DSP Chip 9 Multi Channel Stereo 1 DSP Chip Multi Mono 2 DSP Chips 88 2 96 Mono DSP Chip 9 Multi Channel Stereo Not available Multi Mono 2 DSP Chips Pro Tools 24 MIX Core Farm Cards Sample Rate DSP Chips Used Per Instance Available DSP Chips kHz Per Card 44 1 48 Mono 1 DSP Chip 2 DRAM Multi Channel Stereo 1 DSP Chip Multi Mono 2 DSP Chips On Pro Tools 24 MIX Core or Farm cards Echo Farm is limited to the two available DRAM chips per card 44 1 48 kHz Mono versus 88 2 96 kHz Mono Signal
14. gnal and tubes and the rest of the guitar amplifier electronics are really just a complex form of signal processing T hese electronic explorers thus distilled the noble history of guitar tone heritage into a revolutionary patented DSP digital signal processing software based modeling technology which gave Line 6 the power to create super silicon based life forms like our history making amplifiers POD and the universally acclaimed Pro Tools TDM Plug in called A mp Farm W ell it s been some years since that first Line 6 amp brought modeling to the amp world followed by POD and Amp Farm and their transformation of the world of INTRODUCTION LIFE ON THE FARM 1e2 guitar recording and studio tube emulation A nd during that time our thoughts have often turned from our guitar amps to our feet We started thinking about all those great stomp boxes and vintage studio effect units that have been as much a part of the electric guitar and studio recording experience as the amplifier A nd all that thinking led to the Line 6 Stomp Box M odelers our line of hardware stomp boxes featuring lovingly crafted digital software models of a whole carpet full of the great effects of guitar history N ot surprisingly many of the early users of the Line 6 Stomp Box M odelers weren t even guitarists Producers engineers keyboardists and musicians of every persuasion discovered their sound in the sweet and organic splat and swirl of the Delay modele
15. her audio feeding into the effect W hile you play or sing or bang trash can lids around the Dynamic Delay keeps the volume of the echoes turned down so that the echoes don t overwhelm what MODELED ECHOS WhicH UNITS ARE MODELED you re doing Then when you stop playing for a moment the volume level of the repeats turns up to allow the echoes to be heard Nifty huh The Threshold knob sets the breakpoint where this automatic volume control stops working and lets the echoes through at full volume The Ducking knob adjusts the level of the ducked repeats higher settings will duck the delay level down more Try setting Threshold and Ducking to reasonably high values and hear how the delay effect gets partially muted while you play sing drum chant scratch push keys helping to avoid that unwanted muddy sound Auto Volume Delay This model gives you two effects in one The A uto Volume part of the equation is a volume fade in swell like the attack time on a synthesizer s envelope generator This can be used for a bowing effect like the one you get by turning the volume knob on a guitar quickly up from zero just after you pick a note Higher settings for the Swell Time knob will give you a longer fade in time so that the sound slowly fades in like a wave The other effect isan echo set by the regular delay time and repeats controls complete with tape style wow amp flutter modulation adjustable via the model s
16. l are setup to emulate the effect of the similarly labeled knobs switches and jacks on the original effects we modeled For the complete story check out the Echo Models chapter in this manual STANDARD PLUG IN CONTROLS Echo Farm includes the standard set of plug in controls along its top control strip You should refer to the latest version of the Pro Tools documentation to be sure you re aware of any new features but here s a quick primer on the basics in case you need it Audio 1 insert a Echo Farm bypass x factory de Faulty compare automation Track Selector Thisisthe top left button above Click it to choose what track or channel strip you would like to adjust plug in settings for Insert Send Selector The next button to the right showing insert a above is the insert send selector C lick it to choose which of the inserts you want to deal with on the selected track or channel Plug in Selector Continuing along the top row toward the right the next button picks the plug in that you want to use Echo Farm for instance UsING ECHO FARM STANDARD PLUG IN CONTROLS Bypass You guessed it Click here to bypass the currently displayed plug in you will now hear the sound of the audio on that track or channel strip without the plug in s processing Setting Pop up Bottom left of the illustration You have to click on the little downward pointing arrow to Save settings or click on the text of the po
17. n the text in the yellow field to see the list of Echo M odels available the Echoplex EP 1 model is selected above Keep holding the mouse button and drag through the list to the Echo M odel you d like to select Release the mouse button and the Echo M odel you selected is now running in the Echo Farm window Echo Model Info Button The question mark button Oooh pretty pictures Click this button to get a peek at the inspiration for the currently selected model in addition to extra details you ll want to know about this model all available to you any time without having to dive for this manual Delay Time Knob and Display Top left U se the little silver knob to set the delay time or simply click on the display and type in a value T he value is USING ECHO FARM EcHo FARM CONTROLS displayed in milliseconds Once you click you can also use the up down arrows of your keyboard to set the delay time BPM Tempo Display That s Beats Per M inute pal In addition to the traditional Delay Time controls you can set the delay time here by entering the tempo Beats per M inute of your tune N ever again do you have to worry about the delays falling out of sync by the time you reach bar 64 N ote this display becomes grayed out and inactive when you enter a delay time using the Delay Time knob type in a delay time in the millisecond box or tap in a delay time with the Tap button Use the A utomation controls page 2 6 if you
18. nal flexibility 2 9 For instance if you want to record some audio say your vocal while playing a live guitar input through Echo Farm at the same time but you don t want to record that guitar you can t do that with audio tracks alone Because the guitar audio track has to be record enabled for you to hear your guitar input W hich means you re recording your guitar as you record your vocal On the other hand if you have the guitar selected as the input to an aux channel which then runs Echo Farm that will allow you to mess around with Echo Farm as much as you like without recording Writing Echo Farm Processing to Disk There may be times when you want to record your audio to disk with Echo Farm processing as opposed to running the Echo Farm processing live T his may sometimes be necessary if you don t have enough DSP resources to run all the plug ins you want to use simultaneously Or maybe you re going to take some tracks you ve recorded over to another studio and work on them there and they don t have Echo Farm yet Here s what you do Select an audio or aux track that you want to process to disk and set up Echo Farm as an insert on that track Select a bus as the output of that track In the illustration bus 1 2 is being selected N ext set up another audio track and assign the bus you just chose as the new track s input Carrying along with our example we illustrate selection of bus 1 here N ow
19. nobs and see where you end up Multi Head based on the Roland RE 101 Space Echo Long before Boss pedals the Space Echo was Roland s first venture into the world of effects processing Instead of having one movable playback head like the Echoplex this machine has three stationary heads You change delay times by switching amongst these heads and then fine tune delay time with a motor speed control The groovy part is that you can play back on multiple heads at the same time to get multi tap delay effects all with the great tone that only a tape delay or Line 6 emulation can deliver Before high quality digital reverb units became a common studio fixture the Space Echo s multiple heads were called into service for reverb like effects The M ulti H ead model allows you to choose various combinations of heads via the multi position Head Pattern dial which corresponds to the original Space Echo shead selection dial On the original Space Echo this head selection control had six positions each of the three heads solo ed plus three combinations of the MODELED ECHOS WhicH UNITS ARE MODELED heads labeled Swell The Space Echo s designers had to give access to the three individual heads in order to provide the various delay times your M ulti H ead model is fortunately freed from these physical limitations so we just give you a single one head selection as the first position on this control with which to access the full 2 5
20. p up menu to recall settings files that have been saved in the Echo Farm Plug In folder inside the Plug Ins folder inside your DAE Folder which of course isin your System Folder Be sure to save your settings files to this folder so that you can recall them in your Pro Tools sessions Settings may also be saved to your Session Settings file consult your Pro Tools documentation for more information Librarian Pop up Shows lt factory default gt in the illustration Click this button to display a menu of commands for copying pasting saving and importing Echo Farm settings Compare If you have changed the settings of Echo Farm since you last saved them clicking this button allows you to toggle between the saved settings and your newly edited settings in order to compare them Automation Echo Farm brings you more than great vintage echo emulations It gives you a whole new power to control your ambient attitude The key to this power isthe TDM Plug In A utomation capability built into Pro Tools and T DM compatible software T he documentation for Pro Tools or your sequencer package should cover automation in detail But we ll go over a few points here to try to help you avoid problems in getting things set up Clicking this button brings up a dialogue box like this one shown on the next page USING ECHO FARM AUTOMATION amp ECHO FARM SETTINGS FILES AUTOMATION amp ECHO FARM SETTINGS FILES Plug In Automation Master Bypass
21. r just as the Pro Tools powered sonic adventurers before them had found a way to apply A mp Farm or POD processing to pretty much every non guitar track in their mix And so it wasn t long until legions of A mp Farm users started calling and requesting err make that demanding aT DM Plug in version of these same foot friendly echo effects W hich obviously is where Echo Farm makes its entrance So now that you know where it comes from it s time to experience Echo Farm and its acclaimed Line 6 M odels for yourself Start by turning to the next section Installing Your Software System Requirements Echo Farm requires Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools 24 MIX hardware and will not run on older N uBus or pre MIX PCI TDM systems Echo Farm will also not run as an RTAS or AudioSuite plug in and cannot be used for instance with a Digi 001 system which relies on native processing for its plug in power INTRODUCTION INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE los Throughout this manual we will assume that you know how to use a Macintosh and Pro Tools hardware and software If you don t ya d better get out your manuals Installation amp Registration To begin the software installation process get the Registration booklet from your Echo Farm package fill out the registration card and give it your obliging mail carrier It is essential that you send in this card so that we can notify you of software updates and bu
22. re run through them Early model digital samplers are also valuable tools in the arsenals of many modern day musicians for achieving these effects Try this model on alow resolution setting to get that characteristic digital grunge Spin the Bit Reduction knob to adjust your Echo Farm s processing anywhere from its normal 24 bit resolution down to as little as 6 bits Your direct sound of course will not be affected Tone control of the delay is also provided via the you guessed it Tone knob Digital Delay with Modulation Choose this model to add a chorus effect to your digital delays Like the chorus of the A nalog Delay with M od this modulation is applied to the delay repeats only leaving your direct sound unaffected Ping Pong The Ping Pong Delay has two separate channels of delay with the output of each channel flowing into the other going back and forth like a game of ping pong MODELED ECHOS WhicH UNITS ARE MODELED T he Delay Time controls set the time for the main delay line and the Offset knob sets the time for the right side delay line as a percentage of the main Delay Time Sound too tricky Just turn the Delay Time knob or type in a delay time or select a tempo and note value or heck just click a few times on the Tap button to set the longer delay time you hear and turn Offset to adjust the shorter delay time If you set Offset straight up at 12 o clock your left and right delays are evenly 3 5 spaced and
23. second time range The next three selections correspond to the Space Echo s three Swell settings Then having gotten ourselves all worked up about this multi head tape echo 3 3 thing we decided to expand your options by including another seven selections which use various combinations of up to four modeled tape heads which is one better isn t it arranging them from less to more as you turn the dial toward its four heads at once climax So grab some audio spin the dial and get ready to explore the final frontier Analog Echo based on the Boss DM 2 Analog echo units like the DM 2 were designed as improvements over the tape echoes that came before them using bucket brigade electronics to give guitarists and other musicians echo units that were more reliable than tape based delays with the added advantage of alow power circuit that can be run on batteries Analog delays are still treasured today for the warm distorted tones they produce and are also great for creating more experimental sounds Try this bit of sonic sculpture for instance set the Delay Time at 500ms and the Repeats knob to max and play in some guitar or other audio so the delay circuit overloads N ow spin the Delay Time knob quickly to get something like the sound of a space aged speeding race car imploding on itself By using A utomation you can set up your Pro Tools Session or sequencer to record and play back this and other soni
24. ulation Depth Ping Pong Offset Stereo Spread Reverse Delay Modulation Speed Modulation Depth Dynamic Delay Threshold Ducking Auto Volume Delay Wow amp Flutter Swell Time Saving amp Recalling Echo Farm Settings The Echo Farm installer will place several Echo Farm settings files in the Echo Farm Plug In folder inside your Plug In Settings folder within your DAE Folder which of course livesin your System Folder You can call up this library of settings from within the Echo Farm dialogue box any time by clicking on the Setting Pop U p as described on page 2 4 of this user guide W hen saving your own Echo Farm settings we recommend that you save them in this folder to ensure that they will be available to any Pro Tools session you are working on You can create sub folders inside the Echo Farm Plug In folder within the Plug In Settings folder if you wish You can also create custom user default settings for Echo Farm so that it always comes up the way you want it to when you first start a new session A gain all of Echo Farm s capabilities in this regard are made to follow the Digidesign standards so please refer to your Pro Tools documentation for details UsING ECHO FARM AUTOMATION amp ECHO FARM SETTINGS FILES Aux Channel It can be handy to run Echo Farm on an A ux Channel Doing this lets you do pretty much anything you could do by running Echo Farm on an audio track but offers some additio
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