Zodiak Echo faithfully recreates the spacious tape delay and spring reverb combo that ruled the airwaves since its introduction in 1974. Its combination of analog tones, trippy quirks, and organic modulation effects helps you unleash an immense variety of room-filling retro sounds. Augmented by a variety of settings, Zodiak Echo can cover anything from delicately timed ping-pong delays to twisted aural psychedelia — at times even morphing into a unique meta-instrument by itself.
Zodiak Echo is powered by advanced tape delay simulation technologies. It features extensive parameters that help vary tonality, wow/flutter, tape age, saturation, and other analog delay characteristics.
Dedicated parameters for each of Zodiak Echo's three delay heads make it easy to obtain stereo ping-pong delays. Its spring reverb module features two distinct tanks, and can be configured to operate in parallel or series to the delay unit. Additional parameters help obtain multi-layered, distinctly analog sounding chorus and vibrato effects characteristic of tape delays.
Zodiak Echo is compatible with iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Silicon Macs. It comes packaged with its AUv3 FX plugin, so that multiple instances can be used in AUv3 compatible DAWs including Logic, GarageBand, and Cubasis. Zodiak Echo supports MIDI Learn for over 40 parameters, as well as MIDI program changes.
| Tape Delay & Spring Reverb Units |
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| Virtual tape delay & spring reverb with unique tonal response |
| Recreates the operational properties and quirks of the famous 1970s effects unit |
| Realistic tape saturation and tape modulation effects |
| 3 independent delay heads |
| Dedicated delay time, panning & gain per head |
| Tempo syncing with wide variety of note values |
| Adjustable Intensity control capable of self-oscillation |
| Custom Bass/Treble delay EQ |
| Smooth tape speed changes for realistic speed-up/slow-down effects |
| Two unique spring reverb models |
| Adjustable reverb dwell / decay time |
| Reverb panning |
| Series or parallel reverb signal path selector |
| Adjustable tape frequency response |
| Independently adjustable tape wow and flutter |
| Vari-Amp control for amplitude modulation |
| Special preamp option with saturation and saturation tone control |
| Adjustable delay head drift |
| Custom presence control |
| Mono-summed delay line input option |
| Stereo or mono-summed feedback selector |
| Dry mute switch |
| Echo send switch for delay trails |
| Configurable tape rate change response time |
| Independently adjustable tape hum and hiss, with master tone control |
| Tape Age parameter for changing tonal and modulation characteristic |
| System, AUv3, MIDI & Extras |
| AUv3 Effects Plugin: use multiple instances in your favorite AUv3 host |
| DAW-friendly layout |
| iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Silicon Mac compatible |
| Easy MIDI learn, with ability to manually configure each MIDI parameter |
| Over 40 MIDI parameters |
| MIDI program changes |
| Create, save, and share unlimited banks and presets |
| Over 140 factory presets featuring a wide variety of delay effects |
| Native processing at any standard sample rate up to 96kHz |
| 64-bit internal resolution for top notch numeric precision |
| iOS Files support |
| Background audio (standalone) |
| Settable buffer size (standalone) |
