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Ping-Pong Delay

Cross-coupled delay with alternating repeats.

About

Two delay lines wired into each other's inputs, so a single hit leaves on the left, comes back on the right, and keeps alternating. The bounce is the routing rather than anything scheduled, which is why it stays correct at any delay time.

Presets

Start from a named sound, then adjust the instrument to make it yours.

InitDefaultClassic ThrowSixteenth ScatterDotted BounceStereo CombEndless

Signal graph.

Experimental

A sketch of the signal path, in the order of the parameter groups.

How it works.

Two delay lines are cross-coupled: the left one's output feeds both the left output channel and the right line's input, and the right one's does the mirror image. A single impulse therefore emerges on the left after one delay time, on the right after two, on the left after three, and so on. Nothing counts repeats or schedules sides, the alternation is a property of the loop, which is why it stays correct at any delay time and needs no re-scheduling when the time knob moves.

The input is summed to mono before it enters the loop, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. If a stereo source kept its channels, both lines would be seeded at once and the first repeat would arrive on both sides simultaneously, which is precisely the bounce not happening. The dry path keeps the source's own image; only the repeats are mono-seeded.

Feedback is applied at each crossing, so it multiplies twice per full cycle back to the starting side. That is the practical difference from a plain delay's feedback knob: the same number gives a shorter tail here, and the cap the two effects share is measured against the per-crossing gain, which makes it conservative for the round trip rather than marginal.

This is the browser preview: two DelayNodes, two gains and a channel merger, structured after the reference ping-pong delay rather than compiled from the same kernel, and making no parity claim against it. There is no tempo sync and no filtering in the feedback path, so the repeats stay as bright as the source instead of darkening the way an analogue-voiced delay would.

Part of these racks.

A rack is a fixed rig: several modules already wired together, playable as one instrument. This module is one of the pieces.

  • Drumbox

    Drumstep sequences the Maru Sampler's Detroit Techno kit through a ping-pong delay.

    Opens on a Drumstep pattern over the sampler's 16-pad Detroit Techno kit.

    3 modules · drumstep → sampler → ping-pong-delay

  • Linesynth

    Linestep writes one melodic line and plays it on a compiled synth voice and the Maru Sampler at once, summed through a ping-pong delay.

    Opens on a Linestep melody played at once by the synth voice and the sampler's Aurora Keys bank.

    4 modules · linestep → oscillator → sampler → ping-pong-delay

Goes well with.

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