Delay

An echo with feedback, tempo-synced or free

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Delay repeats the signal after a pause: it is an echo. Feedback sends the echo back to the input so you get many repeats; at 0.9 they take almost a minute to fade. Tone rolls off the highs on every repeat so the tail darkens like a tape delay, Mix balances the dry signal against the echoes, and Ping-pong bounces the repeats from left to right. Time can follow the tempo or be set by hand in milliseconds.

Try this

Add Delay to a short note and set the time between its echoes.

Ports

in: Audio in
time: CV on the delay time
out: Audio out

Parameters

Time · Ms · Feedback · Tone · Mix · Stereo

Try this

Ping-pong at 3/8 with Feedback 0.6 is an ambient classic: short notes scatter into a rhythmic pattern over the grid.
LFO → Time with a tiny amount of 0.03 adds a slight pitch wobble, like magnetic tape.
Set Tone to 1500 Hz and Feedback to 0.85: every repeat is darker than the last and the tail drifts into fog.

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