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Multi-tap delay

Klangtal

Two rivers carry sound down the valley through multi-tap delay lines that feed back into each other. Effects sit inside the loop or outside it.

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Klangtal: an alpine valley with a glacier and two turquoise rivers, four buoys on each, effect labels along the channels between them, under the header and the delay, fx and rhythm tabs.

What it does

A delay you can see

01

Two lanes of taps

Each lane is a river with one to eight buoys. Drag a buoy downstream and its echo comes later.

Two rivers run from the top of the picture to the bottom, lane A on the left and lane B on the right. Buoys sit along each one; the higher a buoy, the sooner its echo, so the top is marked early and the bottom late.A1A2A3B1B2B3earlylatelane Alane B
02

Effects in three places

Before the delay, an effect changes the sound once. Inside the feedback it changes every echo again as it comes round. After, only what you hear.

One lane drawn as a line from the sound in, through a before effect, into the delay with three taps, through an after effect and out. A loop runs from the end of the delay back to its start, carrying two feedback effects that change each echo on every pass.beforethe delay, three tapsafterinoutgrittapefeedbackevery echo goes round again
03

One bridge between the lanes

Cross sends returning echoes into the other lane. Zigzag has every other buoy listen across, so echoes step from side to side.

Lane A on the left and lane B on the right, each with a loop of returning echoes. Arrows cross the ridge between them both ways, labelled cross, and a dotted path zigzags from one lane to the other and back as the echoes repeat.ABcrosszigzag
04

Steps let new sound in

Each lane has its own row of 4 to 16 steps. Echoes carry on through closed steps, and lanes of different lengths drift apart.

Two rows of steps: lane A has seven and lane B nine, with some lit and some dark. Below them, the echoes from each lit step trail on to the right as fading marks, past the closed steps.AB7 steps9echoes carry onthrough closed steps

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Klangtal runs in your browser

Nothing to install. The sound starts after your first tap.

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