Delay junkies rejoice . No , I didn ’ t put the decimal point in the wrong place above . This incredible new multi-delay and looper from sonic sorcerer and Scofield accompanist , Avi Bortnick ( and his digital design partner Maximos Kaliakatsos ) comes in the form of an app . It is time to dust off those iOS audio interfaces ( iRig , Apogee Jam , Fender Slide , and others ) and tuck in to a time-based twilight zone of tonal intrigue . Echo Pitch is a tidy , aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-tweak app that sports four independent delay lines and in-time sync , which can be pitch-shifted or even routed through a
Master Delay that functions as a looper . What ’ s more is the built-in Amp Simulator and tasty touch of reverb on tap to smear the rhythmic harmonies and swirling arpeggio architectures into the mix seamlessly when playing through headphones or jacking straight into an audio interface .
When I first downloaded the app , I was on a walk and decided to open Echo Pitch before I got home to get a lay of the land . To my surprise and delight — with no adaptor plugged in — the app was using my iPhone ’ s internal microphone and it was registering my heavy breathing and mangling it into a prismatic glitch-storm of cyclical mayhem . . . so far so good and the guitar hasn ’ t even been plugged in . I digress , but this unintended , out-ofcontrol sound generation alone is worth a couple bucks for those looking for an off-kilter sample to loop ( or a thousand ). However , plugging in properly with my iRig Adaptor blew open a purple-and-black world of shifting warp zones and cyclical , musical beauty . I was bathed in a Frippertronicsesque factory of looping rhythmic joy .
Though Echo Pitch is capable of a myriad of musical settings and highly fine-
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Delay junkies rejoice . No , I didn ’ t put the decimal point in the wrong place above . This incredible new multi-delay and looper from sonic sorcerer and Scofield accompanist , Avi Bortnick ( and his digital design partner Maximos Kaliakatsos ) comes in the form of an app . It is time to dust off those iOS audio interfaces ( iRig , Apogee Jam , Fender Slide , and others ) and tuck in to a time-based twilight zone of tonal intrigue . Echo Pitch is a tidy , aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-tweak app that sports four independent delay lines and in-time sync , which can be pitch-shifted or even routed through a
Master Delay that functions as a looper . What ’ s more is the built-in Amp Simulator and tasty touch of reverb on tap to smear the rhythmic harmonies and swirling arpeggio architectures into the mix seamlessly when playing through headphones or jacking straight into an audio interface .
When I first downloaded the app , I was on a walk and decided to open Echo Pitch before I got home to get a lay of the land . To my surprise and delight — with no adaptor plugged in — the app was using my iPhone ’ s internal microphone and it was registering my heavy breathing and mangling it into a prismatic glitch-storm of cyclical mayhem . . . so far so good and the guitar hasn ’ t even been plugged in . I digress , but this unintended , out-ofcontrol sound generation alone is worth a couple bucks for those looking for an off-kilter sample to loop ( or a thousand ). However , plugging in properly with my iRig Adaptor blew open a purple-and-black world of shifting warp zones and cyclical , musical beauty . I was bathed in a Frippertronicsesque factory of looping rhythmic joy .
Though Echo Pitch is capable of a myriad of musical settings and highly fine-
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