User Guide

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Effects Menu – Edit View
Echo dialog
Achieve effects ranging from a Grand Canyon-type “Hello-ello-llo-lo-o” to “boingy” drain pipe sounds by varying the
delay amount. Change a room’s characteristic sound from one with reflective surfaces (yielding echoes that have a bright,
shiny high-end) to one that is almost totally absorptive (very little reflected high-end sounds) by equalizing the delays.
You can create striking stereo echo effects by using different Left and Right channel values for the Decay, Delay, and
Initial Echo Volume controls.
Echo Characteristics The following characteristics can be applied to echoes.
• Decay is the falloff ratio of an echo. Each successive echo will trail off at a certain percentage less than the previous
one. A decay setting of zero percent results in no echo at all, while a decay of 100 percent produces an echo that never
gets quieter.
• Delay sliders are used to specify the number of milliseconds that is placed between each echo. For example, a setting
of 100 milliseconds results in a 1/10th-second delay between successive echoes.
• Initial Echo Volume: Adjust these sliders to set the percentage of echoed (wet) signal to be mixed with the original
(dry) signal in the final output.
• Lock Left/Right: With stereo waveforms, the left and right channels may be processed separately. When the Lock
Left/Right box is checked, the Decay, Delay, and Initial Echo Volume scroll bars for the left and right channels move
together, maintaining the same settings for each channel. Uncheck this box to adjust the channels separately.