need help using delay effect

[abcde111]

i did read some articles about delays, but i still have trouble understanding the Calf Vintage Delay plugin.
i have a vague idea of what amount does, and that increasing feedback gives me more of the delay.
but i still have no clue what i'm doing when i'm using this plugin.

can someone explain the control knobs in this plugin?
also, i don't understand the concept of "feedback" for effectors in general.
from what i've read, i take it that feedback is that signal output from the effector that goes back somewhere, but i don't know what that somewhere is and how that affects the sound.

thank you

[diiz]

Delay line without feedback:

echo! ---------- (echo)

Delay line with feedback:

echo! ----- (echo) ----- (echo) ----- (echo) ----- (echo)

Basically, a simple delay line is just a doubled version of the original signal but delayed. You mix it with the original signal, and it sounds like there's a simple, singular echo.

Feedback is feeding the output of the effect back into the effect itself. The amount of feedback is usually measured in percentages, where 50% feedback would mean that the output of the effect (the "wet" signal) is sent back to the input of the effect with 50% reduced volume. Effectively this means that what you get is not just the echo, but also echo of an echo, and the echo of that, and the echo of that, etc... The higher the feedback, the longer it takes for all of the echos to die away.

[abcde111]

thanks!

can you tell me what the controls in the calf plugin mean?
especially tempo and amount, since those are the ones i seem to be tweaking the most.

[roy38]

thanks!

can you tell me what the controls in the calf plugin mean?
especially tempo and amount, since those are the ones i seem to be tweaking the most.

I find from using LMMS that a lot of the tutorials only take you so far and they are good tutorials, they even help seasoned LMMS users. I find from playing around with the knobs and dials you create sounds by accident. Do not be afraid if a production you make does not sound how you want it, i truly believe with time and patience you'll produce something that you would like other people to appreciate.

There were some sounds I created by accident were some of the most pleasing.

[diiz]

If you mean the vintage delay, tempo controls the length of the delay, along with subdivide, time l and time r. The lenth of the delay is the length of one beat according to the tempo, divided by subdivide and multiplied by time for each channel.

Amount simply controls the amplification/gain of the delay signal.

[abcde111]

by "multiplied by time" do you mean how many of the echoes i hear?

so if i set time L and R to 4, and have subdivide to 16,
i'll hear a 16th-note length echo four times?

i asked because i seem to be getting something wrong