Description
Summary
X-Echo is your vibe machine, adding the gloriously warm sound of vintage tape to your recordings, sessions and even jams. Soft compression, hiss and the well-known gradual degradation of tape have all been meticulously modelled and combined with SSL’s renowned console-style saturation and LF/HF EQ.
In addition to advanced waveform visualisation, built-in ‘DE-ESSER’ and delay ‘WIDTH’ control, X-Echo features a brand-new SSL reverb design: Capable of subtle space to the richest of plates, all the way to a reverb tail which can fill a canyon, all via the single-knob ‘DIFFUSION’ control.
Able to effortlessly deliver traditional tape delay effects like swirling echoes and classic slap back, X-Echo is also capable of more contemporary creative delays commonly found in electronic music, and of course can be driven to self-oscillation via ‘FEEDBACK’ or add creative swells via ‘FREEZE’ and ‘KILL’
Key Features
- 4 switch-able tape heads for adding variation
- Tape-style analogue degradation with classic SSL-style distortion characteristics using the ‘Wow & Flutter’ and ‘Saturation’
- Models classic characteristics of hardware tape echo devices, including the looping EQ, soft clipping, gentle tape hiss and self-oscillation
- WOW & FLUTTER emulates the effect of mechanical components, as well as the friction of the tape itself
- FREEZE and KILL to build risers and drops
- DIFFUSION control, featuring a brand new reverb design
- Built-in DE-ESSER for controlling the sibilant frequencies that tape echoes often accentuate
- Unique interface and waveform visualisation
- Cleverly stereoises mono signals
- Built on the SSL Plug-in Engine
System Requirements
SSL plug-ins can be authorised by machine-based iLok licensing or iLok 2 / iLok 3 USB dongles.
MAC MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher (32 or 64-bit)
- Intel Dual Core Mac running at 2.4GHz or higher
- 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
- AU (32 or 64bit), VST2 (32 or 64-bit), VST3 (32 or 64-bit), AAX Native (32 or 64-bit)
PC MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Windows 7, (64 bit) 8 (64 bit), 8.1 (64 bit), and Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Intel Core 2 (or comparable) CPU running at 2.4GHz or higher
- 4GB of RAM minimum, 8GB preferable
- VST 2(64 bit), VST3 (64 bit), AAX Native (64 bit)
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