Echo

Pluck · Lesson 3 of 3 · PK3

Exercise Add slap or ping-pong delay locked to the bed.
Result A rhythmic pluck riff that bounces.

The 3rd step of the pluck track in PatchPond's subtractive synthesis curriculum. The snap is the filter envelope — and this lesson is where you meet tempo-synced delay for the first time.

What you'll learn

An echo against a stone wall, except the wall is timed to the song.

Delay records the signal and plays it back after a set time, optionally feeding part of the delayed signal back into itself for repeats. When the delay time is synced to the song tempo — eighth note, dotted eighth, sixteenth — the repeats fall on musical subdivisions and lock to the groove. Read more →

Build this lesson live in the PatchPond studio. Web MIDI in, on-screen keyboard otherwise. The patch you make here loads back into iOS later on — same patch format.

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