Erica Synths Echolocator: Firmware Update Adds Frequency Shifter
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The Erica Synths Echolocator gets an update! The new firmware lets you choose between a pitch shifter and a frequency shifter for the shimmer effect.
All about the Erica Synths Echolocator
Erica Synths Echolocator Firmware Update 1.04
Erica Synths has just dropped an update for the Echolocator delay unit. The list of changes may not seem particularly long at first glance, but it does include a feature that expands the sonic potential of the device. The new version lets you choose between the existing pitch shifter and a new frequency shifter option for the Shimmer effect. That should be a source of a wide range of experimental and unique timbres!
You can now download the 1.04 update from the Erica Synths website.
The desktop effect is available at Thomann*.
Erica Synths Echolocator: Performance Delay for your Desktop
[13 March 2025] Erica Synths Echolocator is a digital stereo delay in a desktop format that’s all about real-time tweakability. The perfect hardware delay for DAWless sessions?
After Nightverb, Erica Synths presents Echolocator, another compact desktop performance effects unit developed in collaboration with 112db. While Echolocator borrows Nightverb’s aluminum enclosure with lots of knobs for tweaking, it’s a whole different animal: a digital stereo delay with a bunch of tricks up its sleeve.
All important parameters are directly accessible. In addition to standard delay parameters such as Time(including Tap Tempo), Feedback, Mix, and Ping Pong, you’ll find a built-in resonant filter. The delay can also be modulated. Furthermore, there’s a Freeze function, as well as an adjustable Shimmer parameter.
In addition to this, Echolocator offers an integrated pitch shifter and a one-knob reverb. While real-time tweaking is obviously the main focus here, the device is also fully MIDI-controllable. It comes with 30 presets and 70 memory slots for user settings, which can be exported via USB.
On the back, you’ll find stereo inputs and outputs and a configurable footswitch jack – perfect if you don’t have your hands free during a performance. There’s also MIDI in/out and a USB port.
Price and Availability
You can now order the desktop effect from Thomann* for $521 / £488 / €569. Erica Synths says that the delay will begin shipping on 17 March 2025.
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