I posted this the other day in the Linux group, but thought it might be of value to the general group too since this free tape echo plugin is available on all three platforms.
This is playing through it live and also controlling the regeneration and varispeed of it live using the knobs on an Akai MPD26 midi controller. Does a pretty nice bendy thing that sounds kind of like a Bigsby whammy when you slightly change the speed. Radical changes can do flying saucer FX like the old tape echo boxes.
By trial and error I figured out the default midi CC mapping.
On/Off - CC16
Sig Left - CC8
Sig Right - CC9
Head 1 - CC12
Head 2 - CC13
Head 3 - CC14
Tone Defeat - CC15
Swell - CC7
Repeat - CC92
Echo Tone - CC93
Varispeed - CC91
Thx GB, many happy hours with a harmonic and a Copicat.
I used to have a Roland Space Echo and prior to that had access to a Maestro EchoPlex that was in my studio, so I was happy to have an effect similar to them in my VST toolbox.
I programmed six knobs on my Akai MPD26 to control all the most used functions. I can play something on guitar, and while the last note or chord rings out, reach over and tweak the controls on the tape echo sim.
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Tape echo was always fun to me. Tommy Bolin's guitar performance on Billy Cobham's "Quadrant Four" is one of my favorite uses of live tape echo on guitar.
Tommy Bolin on guitar doesn't come in until 1:09 of Jan Hammer's initial keyboard solo, but Bolin is smoking hot on this!
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Tape echo was always fun to me. Tommy Bolin's guitar performance on Billy Cobham's "Quadrant Four" is one of my favorite uses of live tape echo on guitar.
Tommy Bolin on guitar doesn't come in until 1:09 of Jan Hammer's initial keyboard solo, but Bolin is smoking hot on this!
Thanks for reminding me of one of my favourite LPs back in my 1970s. 'Red Baron' was good wasn't it?
Well I don't consent to this so I guess it's not for me...
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Some other titles (currently only VariSpeed) collect some details about the hardware running the software and store it on our server. Data is collected only every once in a long while, not at every session, and at the same time a news feed is shown reporting offers or news about other GSi products.
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Well I don't consent to this so I guess it's not for me...
Thanks for pointing this out. I fired up REAPER, then fired up WireShark and added this plugin, and watched it check for an update. I got two lines back, so then I fired up some Toontrack and some other commercial paid plugins and found similar communications going on. I suppose I could blacklist all the plugins destinations so they are unreachable in a hosts file if it bothered me enough.
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Heh. Just happened to check out Guido's site the other day & saw this. DL'd but haven't had a chance to use it yet. I absolutely loved my old Maestro Echoplexes. But got tired of constantly replacing worn out tapes. The 1st cartridge lasted a while but after that... Kinda like the muffler on your car The tapes started to get expensive & eventually hard to find. We finally trashed the old things and got one of the first digital delays. Can't remember if it was a Lexicon or Digitech but I never really could connect with it. Just wasn't the same and frankly sounded bad. Lifeless. So I've been looking for something similar ever since, tried a few freebees but haven't been impressed so far. Hoping this one does it.
AFA pinging his website my studio isn't connected to the net so no worries. Sometimes paranoia pays off. At least in small and insignificant ways.
And thanks GBo for figuring out the CC's. Great idea to map them to your controller.
Heh. Just happened to check out Guido's site the other day & saw this. DL'd but haven't had a chance to use it yet. I absolutely loved my old Maestro Echoplexes. But got tired of constantly replacing worn out tapes. The 1st cartridge lasted a while but after that... Kinda like the muffler on your car The tapes started to get expensive & eventually hard to find. We finally trashed the old things and got one of the first digital delays. Can't remember if it was a Lexicon or Digitech but I never really could connect with it. Just wasn't the same and frankly sounded bad. Lifeless. So I've been looking for something similar ever since, tried a few freebees but haven't been impressed so far. Hoping this one does it.
Having played a lot with Maestro Echoplexs and Roland Space Echos, I find this plug to be more similar to the Space Echo, because it has three stationary playback heads, where the Echoplex had a single playback head on a sliding track that let you do extreme tape smears. The VariSpeed control can't get as radical.
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AFA pinging his website my studio isn't connected to the net so no worries. Sometimes paranoia pays off. At least in small and insignificant ways.
If I ever do see their little news feed window (I haven't yet), they will find out that an English speaking Linux user in the Central Timezone of the US with an 8 core Ryzen 3700X and 16GB RAM used their product on a 1920x1080 display. They specifically state that this stuff is all they cull from a connection.
1. OS name
2. CPU vendor & model, number of cores, speed
3. Memory size
4. Language and region
5. Screen resolution
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And thanks GBo for figuring out the CC's. Great idea to map them to your controller.
You bet! I had a guitarist I've worked with for over 45 years in my studio today recording some tracks on a new project. After we were done recording he continued jamming around on my new Epiphone SG and I put the tape echo on his track. His eyes instantly widened, and then I started playing with the speed and regeneration and his jaw dropped to the floor. Having the controls on a surface where you can reach over and tweak them makes it a lot more like the real tape echos of yesteryear.
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Is this only loading as a mono VST3 for anybody else? It says "stereo" in the manual but not sure if that just means you can turn down right and left channels with the delay staying mono, or if there's actually a true stereo version available.
Tape echo was always fun to me. Tommy Bolin's guitar performance on Billy Cobham's "Quadrant Four" is one of my favorite uses of live tape echo on guitar.
Tommy Bolin on guitar doesn't come in until 1:09 of Jan Hammer's initial keyboard solo, but Bolin is smoking hot on this!
'Standing the Rain' by the James Gang also shows off Tommy pushing the Echoplex into self-oscillation. It was one of his favorites tricks:
'Standing the Rain' by the James Gang also shows off Tommy pushing the Echoplex into self-oscillation. It was one of his favorites tricks:
That's exactly what's fun with tape echo for me. On the VariSpeed turning up the swell and repeat together will get it there, and then you can play with the speed control.
A guitarist I worked with in the 70s built a flying saucer out of two aluminum roof vent covers, and put a speaker inside and flashing LED lights on it. He'd hang it off the balcony of his third floor apartment and play EchoPlex flying saucer noises through it's speaker.
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