Echo



This effect repeats the audio you have selected again and again, normally softer each time. The delay time between each repeat is fixed, with no pause in between each repeat.
 * Accessed by: Effect > Echo...
 * [[Image:Echo.png|Echo dialog]]

Unless your requested echo length (delay time) is less than the length of the selection, no echoes will be created. Also Echo does not generate additional audio beyond that selected. So if necessary you must add sufficient silence to the end of your track(s) to accommodate your echo settings.


 * To add silence:

This leaves the generated silence selected. Before running the Echo effect itself, click in the Track Control Panel to select both the original audio and the inserted silence (or hold SHIFT and press HOME ).
 * 1) Click in the selection and press END on your keyboard, or choose Edit > Move Cursor > To Track End
 * 2) Choose Generate > Silence...
 * 3) Choose the duration of the silence you want to add to the selected audio, and click OK.

Delay time (seconds)
The amount of delay between the echoes, in other words the length of each echo.

Decay factor
Usually a number between 0 and 1. A value of 0 means no echo, and a value of 1 means that each echo is exactly as loud as the original, so this merely extends the current selection unchanged. A value of 0.5 reduces the amplitude or loudness of each echo by half each time, so the audio dies out quite slowly. Smaller values make it die out more quickly. Values above 1 increase the amplitude of the echo each time, which you could use as a special effect.

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