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Topic: Echo out options in Virtual DJ (Quantized, Tempo synced, etc)
This post is to help anyone looking for the correct "Echo Out" effect that meets their needs. There's a heap of "echo out" effects in Virtual DJ. I like to use an echo out which is quantized and tempo synced, so if I hit the effect slightly out of time I'm still grabbing the exact beat and so that when I'm mixing into another track the echo out continues to be in sync as I change tempo. And I don't want to pause the track after hitting the echo out in case I need to bring it back. It appears that the "Loop Out" effect is the only quantized echo out in Virtual DJ.

Throw this script on a button and you're good to go :
effect_active 40 ?
    effect_active 40 'Loop Out' off :

    effect_select 40 'Loop Out' &
    effect_slider 40 1 30% &
    effect_slider 40 2 70% &
    effect_slider 40 3 0% &
    effect_slider 40 4 70% &
    effect_button 40 1 on &
    effect_button 40 2 on &
    effect_button 40 3 off &
    effect_active 40 'Loop Out' on


What about if you want tempo synced echo out but you don't want it quantized, in that case you can choose from these effects:
Low Cut Echo / High Cut Echo / Echo
RMX-Echo
BFX-Echo
Ducking Echo

So what about the "Echo Out" effect. This effect doesn't tempo sync the echo.... so as you mix in the next track and change tempo the echo out will stay at the same tempo it was at. This is good for mixing between large tempo changes.

Hope that helps someone else as I spent about 8 hours testing every echo out option in Virtual DJ traying to find one that meets my needs.
 
Posted Tue 11 Feb 25 @ 9:30 am
After making this post I discovered one problem with the Loop Out effect. When you activate it it grabs the original audio of the track without any effects applied. In my case I wanted effects like reverb to also be echoed out at the time that the echo out effect was triggered.

To achieve this has taken some time, but this what I've come up with. The hardest bit was making it fully quantized which I've achieved using a Loop Roll which is only triggered for a single beat.
effect_active 40 ?
    effect_active 43 'Loop Roll' off &
    effect_active 42 'SimpleVolume' off &
    effect_active 40 'Low Cut Echo' off &
    effect_slider 40 1 0% &
    effect_button 40 1 off &
    effect_button 40 2 off &
    effect_active 40 'Low Cut Echo' on &
    effect_active 40 'Low Cut Echo' off :

    param_smaller `get_beat_bar 1` 0.50 ?
        wait `get_beat_bar 1 & param_invert & param_cast beats` &
        effect_select 40 'Low Cut Echo' &
        effect_slider 40 1 87% &
        effect_slider 40 2 70% &
        effect_slider 40 3 0% &
        effect_slider 40 4 100% &
        effect_button 40 1 on &
        effect_button 40 2 on &
        effect_active 40 'Low Cut Echo' on :

        effect_active 43 'Loop Roll' on &
        effect_slider 43 1 100% &
        effect_slider 43 2 70% &
        wait `get_beat_bar 1 & param_invert & param_cast beats` &
        effect_active 42 'SimpleVolume' on &
        effect_slider 42 1 75% &
        effect_select 40 'Low Cut Echo' &
        effect_slider 40 1 87% &
        effect_slider 40 2 70% &
        effect_slider 40 3 0% &
        effect_slider 40 4 100% &
        effect_button 40 1 on &
        effect_button 40 2 on &
        effect_active 40 'Low Cut Echo' on &
 
thanks for sharing, going to try it out tonight, one question, should there be an & at the end of the script?
 
not really but it won't hurt.