Retroplex

The Retroplex delay unit is modeled after the old tape echo units of the ’60s and ’70s like the Echoplex™, with some modern enhancements. It’s a lot of fun and unpredictable!

MINI-SLIDER

Controls the mix of the dry signal and the processed (wet) signal. The percentage indicated is the amount of the signal that is wet. Range: 0 to 100%.

PAGE ONE CONTROLS

• VARI-SPEED
  Smoothly controls the tape speed/delay time of the echoes.
  Range: 1% ~ 100%

• FEEDBACK
  Feeds the delayed signal back to the input for echo repeats.
  Range: 0 ~ 100%

• TAPE MODE
  Drop-down menu offering different preset types of echo and delay ranges.
  Choices: ECHO 1, ECHO 2, DELAY 1, DELAY 2

• [FLUTTER] AMOUNT
  Simulates the tape flutter motor instability of vintage tape echo machines that make the echoes vary in pitch from one repeat to the next.
  Range: 0 ~ 100%

• [FLUTTER] SPEED
  Controls how fast the motor instability affects the tape flutter pitch modulation of the echoes.
  Range: 0 ~ 100%

• YEAR
  Drop-down menu that contains a list of “years” from 1960–2000.
  Choosing a year simulates the fidelity of the chosen era. Earlier years have less fidelity.

• WIDTH
  Controls the width of the echo stereo imaging.
  Range: 0% (mono) ~ 100% (full stereo)

PAGE TWO CONTROLS

• DRIVE
  Controls the amount of overdrive distortion in the delayed signal.
  Range: 0 ~ 1

• SMASH
  Adjusts the bit resolution of the delayed audio for additional distortion.
  Range: 32 bit to 4 bit

• FREEZE
  Locks the echo buffer for a continuous playback loop of what is in the echo buffer. Useful for simulating sound-on-sound style tape-looping techniques.

NOTE: The FREEZE buffer is cleared when Omnisphere is closed. To save the FREEZE buffer, you need to render Omnisphere to an audio file.

• GAIN
  Adjusts the overall output.
  Range: 0 ~ 100