Echorium

Tape Delay · Space · Mod · Comp · EQ

A submerged echo machine. Real tape physics, 28 convolution spaces, deep modulation, and a living X/Y pad that plays your delay in tempo-locked patterns.

Echorium is a five-engine echo instrument built around a physically modeled tape loop — saturation that compounds with every pass, head-gap losses, wow, flutter, dropouts and real sampled hiss. Around it sit true convolution reverb, three modulation engines, a soft-knee compressor with tube-style drive, and a 4-band interactive EQ.

The front page distills all 76 parameters into five macro knobs — Age, Space, Time, Movement and Mix — over a living X/Y pad. Drag it and you're performing the machine: X bends tape speed (0.5×–2× true varispeed), Y drives feedback to the edge of self-oscillation. Switch to ANI and the cursor plays itself in twelve motion patterns locked to your host tempo. Flip to EDIT for full control — nothing ever jumps between views.

Features

• 5 FX engines — Tape Delay, Space (convolution), Mod, Comp and EQ, each independently bypassable.
• Physics-modeled tape — compounding saturation, wow & flutter, dropouts, real sampled hiss, and the Space Echo law: slower tape, darker repeats.
• Living X/Y pad — tape speed on X, feedback on Y; dub-siren throws, tape stops and runaway swells with one finger, fully automatable.
• 12 ANI motion patterns — Circle, Fig-8, Swing, Dive, Steps, Drift, L / Rev L, Square, Spiral, Bounce, Chaos, phase-locked from 1/4 note to 8 bars with depth control.
• 28 convolution IRs — 16 springs, 6 plates, 6 halls captured at 96 kHz, swapped glitch-free with a live waveform display. Load your own WAVs.
• True reverse & pitch-shift delay — echoes stay reversed as they decay; ±5, ±7, ±12 semitone ghosts or infinite shimmer cascades.
• Mod section — 6-voice ensemble chorus, tempo-synced flanger, 2–12-stage phaser, with PRE/POST placement around the tape loop.
• Comp & EQ — soft-knee compression (1:1–20:1) with even-harmonic drive and auto makeup; 4-band draggable EQ with 15 preset curves.
• 250+ presets in 18 banks — categories, search, favourites, user banks, and a musical dice randomizer built on 10 curated recipes.
• Built to work — 76 automatable parameters, full host sync with BPM readout, undo/redo, A/B compare, tooltips, and a 50–200% resizable UI.