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Topic: Echo tempo

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Does anyone have a way in VDJ to change the tempo of an echo? Once I engage the echo effect I wanted to increase or decrease the bpm to mix a track of a different genre in.

Thanks!

Edit: I know some mixers have this feature, but I dont have one and am looking for a way to accomplish this with out that hardware.
 
Posted Tue 04 Oct 16 @ 1:45 am
It's a procedure but it's not difficult.

Grab the echo as you want it,
crank the strength to 100%,
press the mute source button on the echo fx,
turn the strength down by a few percent,
in a smooth motion change the pitch of the echoing deck to match your new bpm,
[or have them sync'd before hand and pitch_lock to your desired bpm]
maybe lower the strength a few more percent to get a nice decay.
wait till the echo is no longer audible.
stop the old deck
turn the strength down to your usual
turn the mute source button off
turn the echo fx off
crack on.
 
Thanks Loco

So once you turn the strength down to pitch the track, you will lose the inital echo, no? I was hoping i could lock the echo on a certain 1 beat or 2 beat echo to mix the next track into. Is that possible?
 
why don't you loop 1 beat and increase its tempo that way by moving pitch slider.
 
dj5826 wrote :
Thanks Loco

So once you turn the strength down to pitch the track, you will lose the inital echo, no? I was hoping i could lock the echo on a certain 1 beat or 2 beat echo to mix the next track into. Is that possible?


turning the strength down by only a few percent gives you subtle decay, you don't have to, take the list as a serving suggestion, practice, make variations figure out what tastes nice. The important bit is capture the echo, lock it and mute the source the rest just play it by ear.
 
wickedmix wrote :
why don't you loop 1 beat and increase its tempo that way by moving pitch slider.



Thats definitely an option, i just feel the echo is a softer loop and sounds better than a 1 beat loop. Thanks for the suggestion.

locodog wrote :


turning the strength down by only a few percent gives you subtle decay, you don't have to, take the list as a serving suggestion, practice, make variations figure out what tastes nice. The important bit is capture the echo, lock it and mute the source the rest just play it by ear.


Will defiinitely give that a shot and see how it sounds Loco. Appreciate the quick response.

As always, thanks for the help guys!
 


or produce an Echo effect plugin optimized for echo out purposes that creates the desired effect much more quickly and easily.
 


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