They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so here’s another plug-in.
What it does is very similar to the “KRONx ECHO LOOPER” described below - basically it is an echo type effect created by multiple delays but configured primarily with looping in mind.
The main differences from the KRONx are:
Works with any sample rate supported by Audacity.
Works with any bit depth supported by Audacity.
Works with mono or stereo tracks.
Has an extra control to incrementally change the gain of each repeat.
(and the effect itself is only 6 lines of code)
The extra gain control allows repeated loops to gradually fade. For example, a small amount of increased gain applied to a recording of footsteps can make them sound like they are approaching, or with a small amount of negative gain can sound like footsteps moving away.
Very short delays (small “loop period”) can be used to create echo or digital delay type effects.
Longer loops can be used for repeating musical phrases and similar applications.
How this differs from the “Repeat” effect is as described for the “KRONx ECHO LOOPER” and can easily be heard when making fairly rapid repeats to sounds that have a slow decay.
For example, looping a bell sound that has a 10 second decay with an echo delay of 1 second - using the Repeat effect will truncate the decay for each repeat except the final one, whereas the “Looper-Echo” will repeat the full 10 second duration on each repeat. In this respect it is more like the Echo effect.
However it differs from the Echo effect in that each repeat may be identical to the original, so it may be used as an alternative to the Echo effect, but also has many other creative possibilities.
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