Native X-Echo

SSL Native X-Echo is a plug-in inspired by early tape delay hardware from the '60s and '70s, while introducing SSL's signature sound and brought up-to-date with advanced workflow.

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:

• Apple M1 native support - X-Echo is a universal binary, and features M1 Native support.
• 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.

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