Sounds From The Expanse.

Create instant retrofuture atmosphere with evocative vintage delay tones. Activate your imagination with evolving ambient echoes and warm, organic feedback with just the right amount of grit. Sculpt your soundscape in real time as Volante becomes an extension and expansion of your musical instrument. Infuse your pedalboard with stunning vintage vibes that resonate and inspire.

Delays For Days. Three Magnetic Delay Types, Reverb, Sound on Sound, and More.

Delivering truly exceptional sound quality and intuitive playability, Volante is designed to radically enhance the sonic expressiveness of your pedalboard. Featuring magnetic drum echo, tape echo, and reel-to-reel studio echo, Volante is a stereo multi-head delay that also offers a Sound on Sound mode and a vintage spring reverb algorithm. Volante’s powerful sound-sculpting controls provide limitless sonic possibilities.

Vintage Vibe.

To capture the nuance and complexity of classic tape and drum echo machines, every last magnetic delay system attribute was relentlessly studied and faithfully recreated. From the sought-after natural saturation and soft clipping of magnetic media when driven hard, to hands-on real-time controls for mechanics, wear, head-spacing, and low cut, Volante instantly adds tons of vibe to your sound.

Multi-Head Maven.

Volante provides the full experience and sonic attributes of iconic multi-head echo machines. At the center of Volante’s control surface are four delay playback heads with individual feedback, panning, and level controls—delivering unlimited creative options right at your fingertips. All of this range allows the creation of complex rhythmic patterns as well as reverb-like atmospheric textures.

Set Playback Level and Feedback for Each Head.

Each head’s playback level can be set for full volume, half volume, or off.

Independent of playback level, you can switch each head in or out of the feedback circuit.

You can even switch heads into the feedback circuit that are not activated for playback.

All of this control allows the creation of interesting and complex rhythmic patterns as well as unique atmospheric delay textures.

Magnetic Record Head Saturation.

Not only does Volante deliver the warm, luscious delay signals that magnetic echo machines are known for, it is also capable of a high degree of saturation. Turn up the Record Level knob to increase the gain of Volante’s analog class-A JFET input preamp circuit, sending a hot signal with analog warmth to the record head for any amount of saturation you desire.

Dedicated Spring Reverb.

Some of the classic tape echo machines included small integrated spring reverb tanks tuned to limited bandwidth.

For Volante, we captured this vintage vibe while creating a spring reverb algorithm with a gorgeous, gentle character that stands on its own, in addition to enhancing delayed signals.

Instant Access to Eight Presets.

Even without using MIDI, Volante gives you instant access to eight presets.

The playback/feedback buttons represent preset locations, and you can use the FAVORITE footswitch to recall from or save to any of those eight locations.

Of course, if eight is not enough, MIDI gives you access to 300 preset locations!

Variable Head Spacing.

On some vintage multi-head tape echo machines, the heads were not evenly spaced, which created interesting sonic interactions when multiple heads were set to repeat.

Volante gives you a SPACING control that is adjustable between Even, Triplet, Golden Ratio (for dense, non-overlapping echoes) and Silver Ratio (for non-overlapping repeats biased toward the quarter note).

The spacing between the heads is continuously variable for the entire travel of the SPACING knob, morphing between the available settings.

Independent Stereo Panning for Each Head.

Volante allows you to set the pan of each head individually for spacious multi-head stereo delays.

By default, all heads are panned center, with Volante still creating a pleasing psycho-acoustic stereo image.

Playable Echo Feedback.

Volante really sings when pushed to extremes! When you turn up Volante’s REPEATS knob, you get all the richly evolving, super-spacey sonic textures you could dream of.

You also get intuitive and responsive hands-on control for sculpting the feedback.

Volante rewards experimentation, yielding rich, hypnotic, and often unpredictable – but highly musical results.

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