← Music Tech Studio1.12 DelayDelay bench
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2 bars · 110 BPMEach pale mark is a hit; the coloured ones to its right are its repeats, one colour per trip round the loop.
Presets
Rhythmic 1/8: repeats on the off-beat, 35% feedback, 40% wet.AO3The repeats clear inside the bar and stay behind the part: the defensible setting for a rhythmic part, and the one to start from when the paper asks you to fix a chain.AO4Write it in that order in the exam. Naming the setting is AO3; what it does, whether it suits the part and what you would change are AO4, and 15 of the 20 marks are AO4.
Level
Play runs the pattern round two bars. Hold: dry mutes the repeats while you hold it, so you can hear what the delay is adding. The space bar plays and stops.
Source
Four sounds, four shapes. A short hit shows the repeats cleanly; the vocal is long enough for its repeats to smear into one another. Switching starts the pattern again from bar one.
Time273 ms
110BPM
60,000 ÷ 110 = 545 ms per beat
The gap between one repeat and the next. Under about 120 ms the ear hears a thickening rather than an echo. Drag the dial to set it by hand; pick a note value and the bench takes it from the tempo instead.
Feedback35 %
how much of each repeat is fed back in
How much of each repeat goes back round the loop. At 100% the repeats never die away. Where does it stop being an echo and start being a drone?
Mix40 % wet
balance of original against repeats
The balance of the repeats against the original. Past 50% the echo is louder than the part it came from. That is a decision, not a mistake, if you can say why.
What you should hear
273 msbetween repeats
4repeats you can hear
35%of the last, each pass
40%wet in the mix
every number here comes from the dials
Privacy
Every number here comes from the dials: the gap from Time, the count from Feedback, the level from Mix. These are the four things an exam answer about delay is built from.