Imperial Echo Changelog:
October 18 2026 - v1.0.0
- Initial Release
- Pitch-shifting analog delay: bucket-brigade repeats that step through musical intervals, from two octaves down to two octaves up
- Three-step interval sequencer: BASE, INT 1 and INT 2 loop in time, eleven stops per knob with OFF at noon
- Intervals stack, and every repeat that comes back through REGEN is shifted again at the next step, so the echoes play a melody
- Tap tempo from 40 ms to 2 s, or follow your DAW locked to the bar; the TAP LED shows which one is in charge
- Note divisions per step: quarter, dotted eighth or eighth, with 8th triplet, sextolet and 16th on right-click
- STEP mode to play the pitch changes by hand with TAP
- REGEN runs all the way into self-oscillation, TAP / HOLD sends the delay into runaway
- Resonant LPF in the feedback loop darkens every pass, and GLIDE turns interval jumps into swoops or bent pitches
- Modulation mode: an LFO on the delay clock with nine flavours (triangle, sine and square, each steady, twitchy or abrupt), from gentle vibrato to seasick tape wow
- Ramping sweeps up to five knobs on every engage, or ride them with the EXPRESSION control
- Sixteen back-panel DIP switches (ramps, trails, momentary bypass, step, modulation and more), saved with each preset
- Live indicators: interval stops, the step you are hearing, where the ramp has moved a knob and how far the LFO swings
- Front and top views, hover any control to see its exact value
- 100 presets in 10 banks, with 60 factory presets, plus the Left / Live / Right slots on the preset lever
- Mono or stereo input
- MIDI control (VST3 only): MIDI Learn on every knob, toggle, DIP switch and footswitch
- Factory CC map laid out like the original hardware, so a controller already set up for the pedal works unchanged
- Preset and bank stepping from your controller, Program Change for all 100 presets and the Left / Live / Right slots
- MIDI panel shows the last message received
- User manual (PDF) included with the plugin
- 64-bit VST3 (Windows & macOS) and AUv2 (macOS), native Apple Silicon
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