Sound Engineering · Tools · Reverb & Delay

Delay Time Sync

A click fires on beat 1 of each measure. Choose the BPM, the note division, and watch the echoes land on the beat grid. Tempo-synced delay is the foundation of every modern vocal echo, lead-guitar slap, and arpeggio effect.

Click fires on every downbeat. Echoes are the orange marks; beat positions are the dotted lines.

Tempo (BPM)

Delay note value

Stereo mode

Feedback

35%

how many repeats happen

Tone

8.0 kHz

repeats get darker as they fade

Dry / Wet

40% wet

balance of original and echoes

Calculated time

500 ms

1/4 note at 120 BPM

Beat grid · live echoes

Watch the echoes land on the beat

Source click (downbeat of each bar) Delayed echoes (each repeat smaller) Beat positions (1, 2, 3, 4 of the bar)

Press start to begin. A click fires on beat 1 of every bar. The echoes are placed by the delay time you choose — try 1/4 note for echoes on every beat, dotted-1/8 for the classic syncopated guitar slap, 1/16 for a flutter that fills space between hits. Watch the orange echoes land relative to the beat positions (dotted gray lines) on the grid.