SoundToys echoboy, User Manual

Page 1: ...EchoBoy User s Guide Version 5 For Mac and Windows The Ultimate Echo Machine...

Page 2: ...empo pg 14 MIDI Toggle Switch pg 14 Groove pg 14 Feel pg 15 Mode pg 15 A Detailed History of Echo and EchoBoy pg 5 PING PONG ECHO MODE Pg 23 Ping Pong Echo Mode Tweak Menu pg 24 SINGLE ECHO MODE Pg 16...

Page 3: ...Echo Between Grid Lines pg 29 The One Echo pg 29 Saving Echo Patterns pg 30 Repeats pg 30 Rhythm Echo Tweak Menu pg 31 Pan Shape pg 31 Accent Warp pg 31 Rhythm Grid pg 32 Length pg 32 RHYTHM ECHO MODE...

Page 4: ...4 soundtoys com THE BASICS Echoboy Version 5 Figure 1 EchoBoy Main Control Panel and Style Edit Menu...

Page 5: ...in the echo Now when you shove a lot of signal onto analog tape the signal has a tendency to saturate and impart a very natural compression that is fat warm and crunchy In addition to the compression...

Page 6: ...heir individual character Other classic analog delays like the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man think Andy Summers of the Police MXR Analog Delay and the up and coming Boss and Ibanez units provided...

Page 7: ...emulate virtually any classic or contemporary delay device Our main goal was to provide you with not only versatile but exceptional sound one that is truly musical harmonically rich and with real cha...

Page 8: ...ind in every mode COMMON CONTROLS Figure 1 EchoBoy s Main GUI Figure 2 EchoBoy Main Control Panel Single Echo Mode The Saturation control provides a quick and easy means of imparting tube or tape like...

Page 9: ...t dirty and messy These controls were designed to replicate the way true analog input sections respond on physical analog hardware and they will sound very different depending on the setting of the Ec...

Page 10: ...nd distortion ECHO STYLES continued Cheap Tape A Soundtoys original modeled after the characteristics of a variety of vintage consumer grade tape stock Bright and very compressed sounding Memory Man W...

Page 11: ...distorted echoes Fantastic on guitar or any source that would benefit from a thick bed of echo surrounding it THE ECHOBOY CONTROL PANEL Echoboy Version 5 Telephone The narrowband telephone effect Thi...

Page 12: ...feedback loops and solo instruments Diffused Great for creating ambient reverb like echo effects Splattered Highly reflective reverb effect Verbed Echo with a cheap verb chaser afterwards very respons...

Page 13: ...nother means of controlling the relative level of effect to dry This allows you to balance individual delay presets and even out possible amplitude anomalies Add your echo and mix to taste MIX Note th...

Page 14: ...allows you to create that kind of effect It is important to keep in mind that the effect of both controls will depend greatly on the Echo Style selected LOW CUT HIGH CUT TAP TEMPO Tap Tempo does what...

Page 15: ...Swing dialed in with the knob will be relative to the currently set Rhythm Groove settings are imparted on the signal regardless of the type of modulation used the rate or the rhythm setting GROOVE c...

Page 16: ...e are two additional elements we will discuss here the Echo Time control and the slide out Tweak Menu SINGLE ECHO MODE Figure 1 EchoBoy s Main GUI Figure 5 EchoBoy Main Control Panel Single Echo Mode...

Page 17: ...e settings EchoBoy will smoothly crossfade to any new note values NOTE DOT AND TRIP BUTTONS spond to how the Echo Time is measured With Time selected we are measuring time in milliseconds ms and value...

Page 18: ...ed that can move the delay signal outside the speakers in a pseudo super stereo spread The stereo effect created by EchoBoy is a function of the L R Offset WIDTH parameter described below and the Diff...

Page 19: ...ou turn the Accent knob to the right or clockwise you will notice that the volume of each repeat will alternate between loud and soft This will emphasize the 1st 3rd 5th etc of the echo pattern This w...

Page 20: ...note value of your choosing This allows you to create all sorts of different creative delay combinations DUAL ECHO MODE Figure 7 EchoBoy s Main Control Panel in Dual Echo Mode Dual Echo Mode is also a...

Page 21: ...l louder BALANCE These two controls operate in the same manner as in Single Echo Mode They are described in detail back on page 18 WIDTH L R OFFSET Just like in Single Echo Mode by turning up the Acce...

Page 22: ...is fed into Echo 1 At the zero position 12 o clock equal amounts of Echo 1 and Echo 2 will be fed into both channels This is a great way to get dense reverb like echo sounds At the maximum setting Ec...

Page 23: ...ng channel and it only appears based on the Ping time PLUS the Pong time PING PONG ECHO MODE Figure 9 EchoBoy s Main Control Panel in Ping Pong Echo Mode Even if the Pong delay time is set shorter tha...

Page 24: ...controlling the relative loudness of the left and right channels Turn the knob to the left to make the left channel louder Turn it to the right to make the right channel louder it s that easy PING PON...

Page 25: ...ieve some very cool results with a minimum amount of knob turning and tweaking You can quickly create echo patterns with various time bases numbers of repeats and envelope shapes which may RHYTHM ECHO...

Page 26: ...TT allowing you to recall or save customized rhythm patterns Soundtoys rhythm patterns can be shared between any Soundtoys plug in with a rhythm mode The Rhythm Editor grid represents the full length...

Page 27: ...backwards echo sounds Swell The echo starts out low in volume gets louder in the middle and gets quieter again Useful for rhythmic delays Fade The opposite of Swell where the taps start loud and have...

Page 28: ...wo echoes in the same location as an existing one Use the Feedback control to repeat full patterns use the Repeats control to define the number of individual echoes that will repeat CREATING CUSTOM RH...

Page 29: ...BETWEEN GRID LINES Well by now you probably noticed that the first tap in your pattern is yellow instead of green So why is that We call this echo the One Any echo placed exactly at beat one or 0 mil...

Page 30: ...ers of echo repeats can be dialed in using the Repeats knob instead of using the Feedback control This allows for control of both the volume level and the exact timing of each echo giving you much mor...

Page 31: ...Warp creates a variable time bias or time clustering effect and moves clusters all the taps in tandem towards the beginning of the pattern when turned to the left or towards the end of the pattern wh...

Page 32: ...the pattern will be 4 beats long and it is like playing in 4 4 time as it will take 4 beats to complete the pattern LENGTH Echoboy Version 5 The Rhythm Grid selection menu makes it easy to change the...

Page 33: ...Panel underneath the Style Menu and Input Output controls opens up the menu you see above Figure 13 THE STYLE EDITOR The Style Edit Menu includes an extensive and versatile 3 band EQ sec tion in the...

Page 34: ...respond independently of the other bands GAIN DECAY Decay can either increase or decrease the EQ depending on the direction of the control Turning the Decay to the left will EQ Out whereas turning the...

Page 35: ...the feedback on a Flanger it will sound metallic and robot like Moderation will be needed to strike a balance between trying to impart a realistic reverb sound but keeping it from becoming too resona...

Page 36: ...tch will ramp up and down repetitively Sine Similar to the above except smoother Square Pitch will bounce between two values Random Walk The pitch smoothly ramps between random values Random S H Pitch...

Page 37: ...e or not depending on which way you turn the knob With the Sync control set at 12 o clock the phase and rate of all the echo pitch variations will be identical for both left and right channels and for...

Page 38: ...ain Control Panel These two knobs allow saturation to be dialed in for either the just delay the Decay Sat control or for the total overall signal the Out Sat control independent ly Saturation can add...

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