Tempo-sync your delay to the beat. Every subdivision has an exact delay time in milliseconds. Tap the button to find your BPM by feel.
BPM120
Tap 3+ times
THE EDGE'S SECRET
At 120 BPM, dotted 8th = 562.5ms — the signature delay of U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name." The note repeats land just behind the beat, creating forward momentum.
EXHIBIT 02
The Delay Type Museum
Six rooms. Six technologies. A century of echo.
PERFORMANCE 03
The Dub Mixing Board
This is where music becomes anti-music. Kill channels. Send echoes. Let the space speak. Your dub score tracks clean kills and dramatic sends.
KING TUBBY'S METHOD
"King Tubby didn't make music. He unmixed it. He took a finished track and subtracted parts, letting the echo fill the space left behind." — A sound system philosophy that changed all music.
DUB SCORE
0
ECHO SEND50%
DELAY TIME375ms
FEEDBACK60%
STUDIO 04
Infinite Loop Generator
Record a fragment. Let it sustain. Layer over it. Then slowly let it dissolve back into silence — or hold it forever.
FRIPPERTRONICS
"Brian Eno and Robert Fripp built tape loops using two reel-to-reel machines. The physical distance between them — 3 meters — determined the delay time: approximately 1 second. Fripp played guitar; the loop built in real time."
DECAY∞
BUILDER 05
Multi-Tap Pattern Builder
Click the grid to place delay taps at precise time offsets. Each tap echoes the original hit. Design rhythmic shadow patterns.
BPM100
EXPERIENCE 06
The William Basinski Room
A 5-minute experience. The loop decays. You cannot reset it once it begins — only pause. This is about time, entropy, and what survives.
0:00 / 5:00
DISINTEGRATION LOOPS — 2001
In 2001, William Basinski discovered tapes he had made in the 1980s were disintegrating as he digitized them. The oxide was falling off the tape — the music was literally erasing itself during playback. He recorded the process. The result was played on a rooftop in Brooklyn on September 11, 2001, as smoke rose over Manhattan. It became one of the most important works of art of the 21st century.
REFERENCE 07
Artists & Glossary
The innovators who turned echo into art — and the vocabulary of delay.