Roland RE201 Space Echo

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Classic RE201 Space Echo Tape Delay, Spring Reverb

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Author: Jesse Voccia

Version: 1.1 (Updated 15 years ago)

File Size: 1.6MB

Created: May 27, 2008

Made with: Reaktor 5 or lower

Category: Effect Delay based

DESCRIPTION

Welcome to my first upload. A loving recreation of the ultimate echo effect the Roland RE201 Space Echo. The guts of this are mostly from Michat's excellent ensemble Michat's Space Echo ME-201. This is more than a reskin though, I have added a few other features (mostly borrowed from the UA version of the RE201). Thanks to Michat and thanks to Jonathan Style for inspiring me to begin the path to becoming a builder.

User Notes:

The Power switch is an output mute. Handy in case of out-of-control speaker blowing feedback. Secondly the Wet Solo switch is just what it says it is, it removes the dry component from the signal (it is just like the "From P.A." jack on the real thing, useful for when using the RE201 as a send effect). It is possible to have no output if you have the echo-norm switch set to norm and the wet solo on. The Echo-Norm switch is an effect bypass.

The fluctuation section simulates the wow and flutter of analog tape and the noise feature is a crucial component to recreating the otherworldly vibe of the original (thanks to Michat).

Lastly I know the mode selector is not quite right. It goes backwards and the knob is supposed to spin all the way around, but I could not figure out how to get it to wrap around. I am sure someone knows a more elegant way to do the mode selector switch so please let me know. Thank you.

COMMENTS (89)

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Dave Sewell

1 year ago

be great

Dave Sewell

1 year ago

would bench for the clueless to have install and use instructions

Ryan Liau

1 year ago

wowwwww duster time

miike ragan

2 years ago

i cant figure out how to get it to work in studio one where do i place the file

Matt Main

3 years ago

Works fine in Reaktor 6, it's not an ensemble so you have to "create an ensemble" to use it

Claude S.

3 years ago

This thing sounds so good! I just get this nice moody vibe from it. Very lovely

Joseph Kindred

3 years ago

hey, is there anyway to make this available as an .ens file - can't access it in 6fx :-(

José Torres Vicente

3 years ago

How can you make the Reverb work? In REAKTOR 6?

Patrick W

3 years ago

@Joshua ... it works with my Reaktor 6 :)

Joshua Reinhart

4 years ago

this doesn't work with reaktor 6 then?

Patrick W

4 years ago

Connect this to 'Synth in a case' and pure Oxygene floods out of the speakers. Magic :)

YOSHIYA ISHIHARA

5 years ago

Beautiful ! thank you. Spring Reverb dose work.

Patrick W

5 years ago

Oh how brilliant is this? Awesome :) Love it. Downloaded old RE-201 manual to help me use this properly. Thank you.

Lucas Txlr

5 years ago

DON'T WORK

cecilia brown

5 years ago

Thank you very much, working beautifully.

Tony Williams

5 years ago

Classic RE201 Space Echo Tape Delay, Spring Reverb DOES NOT WORK

Jimi Grant

5 years ago

OMG, this is far too amazing to be free. Been looking for this for a long long time. I set it as a bus track and its perrrrrrfectt, perfect, perfect, perfect.....

Kaitav Sapre

5 years ago

Awesome delay! Thank you so much.

John Czomba

6 years ago

Its now 2017 (almost 2018) and this thing still works!!! Great advice from Ahmer below, and don't forget to use it in Reaktor 5 as an FX (Reaktor5 FX) VST.

Ahmer Yasin

6 years ago

Make sure you are in edit mode, by clicking edit button at the top. You will either see a lock or a bug symbol next to it will say "Panel>New" click new and you should see 3 rectangles, two of them saying "In" and the other one "Out" and a bigger rectangle say Space Echo... Click and hold the small circle where it say "1 In" and drag it to the other left circle "L" on Space Echo. Do the same for "2 In" click hold drag it to the left R on the Space Echo. Then connect the right "L" & "R" to the 1 Out and 2 Out. If you want to delete connection right click on the line and select "delete wire". I hope this is correct.

Esteban Torres

6 years ago

How do you connect the inputs and outputs?

Damon Krause

6 years ago

For those having trouble - put the .ism file in a new ensemble, go into edit mode and connect the inputs and outputs.

pip nicholls

6 years ago

'I can't get the audio to come out of the out put? I can see the signal coming in on reaktor but can't get it to come through the RE201?' Me too, what am i doing wrong?

John Shields

6 years ago

Amazing - thanks!

Michael Jansons

6 years ago

I can't get the audio to come out of the out put? I can see the signal coming in on reaktor but can't get it to come through the RE201?

Reinhard Müller

6 years ago

Thank you

6 years ago

SUPERP

Damion Preston

6 years ago

Gotta Try this out!!!

joao a vaz

6 years ago

thanks

Mic Finger

7 years ago

Looking very forward to experimenting with this!

leandro albaytero

7 years ago

Hello how i use this ism files on Ableton 8 ? I need to use with REAKTOR 5 and nothing comes out

Markus Müller-Faßbender

7 years ago

Not bad. Very useful indeed! Nice work. Thank you!

robson sathler

7 years ago

não funciona no ableton live9 :(

nick blackmore

8 years ago

How do you run on Logic?

John Squibb

8 years ago

Fantastic! I've been using the tape echo from guitar rig for a while, but this is much handier! Can't believe I've been missing this.

K M

8 years ago

Great effect, and 6 years old now! Those complaining about no sound should take 30 seconds to read the comments.

Nick Galea

9 years ago

yes please delay syncs to the host tempo! great work

happyhippie jane

9 years ago

Hello and thanks for this wonderfull stuff!!!I just wonder if you have a version where the delay is sync to the host tempo :) I'm sure it would be quite more usefull and great!thanks for your time and hoping for an answer

Andrée Helms

9 years ago

Hello how i use this ism files on Ableton Live 9 Mac or in Native Instruments?

neil mcmeechan

9 years ago

can't get any audio out of this , using mac audio in but nothing out , any help

Don RonX

9 years ago

can anybody help me? I am a beginner.How I can use with on VSTPlugin in windows/Samplitude?what is ism? Many thanks for your help!!

pablo duato

9 years ago

INCREDIBLE

Michael Propst

9 years ago

It's very hard for me to stop from using this on everything.

notolafege pare kosme

10 years ago

Is it possible to work this with Nuendo 4?in which folder must this .ism file to be?Thanks for your time.

Alena Jusic

10 years ago

I can not run this file. Roland RE201.ism ??? What is ism?

Jeremy Eusebio

10 years ago

Thanks so much, this is awesome work

roberto ingram

10 years ago

I am using Maschine with Space echo as effect in reaktor 5. I would like to midi learn controls on your creation using Maschines knobs. Please help me to unstand how? Please Advise, Thank you Much!!

michael chatzimoysis

11 years ago

Amazing stuff Thanks so much best delay plugin in my collection

jamie munro

11 years ago

thanks so much !

Franchetti Cédric

12 years ago

This reverb is a real pleasure, thank you. Bonjour de france!! we love you, we still made â€‹â€‹beautiful toys like that! :)

Joachim Smith

12 years ago

To Thomas Stensbjerg: If you had read the whole thread, you would have seen the advice quoted below. I followed it (I'd never done any sort of editing in Reaktor before), it's simple and it works: "Jesse Voccia (2008-06-06 04:13:41): Find an ensemble you like (or an empty one) and go to the structure view (the one where you can see the wires connecting the different objects). Right click in an empty area and choose "insert instrument->open instrument" and navigate to where your downloaded the .ism. Then just wire up the ins and outs as you want them. In general... to be able to bring other ".ism"s into your ".ens"s you have to save the objects as ".ism" first, just right click on an object and choose "save instrument as". Then just follow the first procedure. I hope this helps. "

thomas b

12 years ago

Cant open this on Mac, when i ad .ism i can see sounds comming in, but no output. Would love to have this as ens. PLEASE :-)

Liam Donaldson

12 years ago

I can't open this as an instrument effect in Reaktor 5.6.1 with Windows 7 32 bit. It worked fine on my Mac On my Windows it has the property of an ism file already when unzipped (.ism extension) but gives an error when I try to insert it as an instrument. Anyone else had this problem?

Liam Donaldson

12 years ago

Love this. I had the real thing and this is just excellent. Used immediately with Razor for some nice ambient tracks.

pix pix

12 years ago

sorry if i missed something , but i can it be synced to the host tempo ?? LOVE the way it sounds :)

Zoheir Mokeddem

12 years ago

Dimension D and i can die !!

Birthday Monster

14 years ago

And who cares if he stole the GUI 8)

Birthday Monster

14 years ago

Who cares if he uploaded .ins or .ens...

Ramon Mills

14 years ago

Beautiful effect! thank you very much!

Jesse Juup

14 years ago

Thank you for this essential studio tool! The big selector knob feels a bit quirky, but other from that I like it very much! The 201 is my favorite Space Echo model.

Bill Ambrose

14 years ago

brilliant. love it thank you

muthafunka

14 years ago

Beautiful! Thankyoum one of the things I miss most about my out-of-commission UAD-1 now I'm on a laptop.

Jason Wolford

14 years ago

This is a great first upload. I own the original and you are certainly on the right track. It would be nice if this were packaged as an ensemble, not an instrument, you might get more feedback that way. The GUI is beautiful, but you probably should at the very least remove the "Roland" from the front. I look forward to any revisions you make and your future uploads. Nice work!

Pete Heskett

14 years ago

hi jesse, i'm apologise in advance as i am a novice reaktor user. i wanted to use your plugin for some sound design uses in cubase 4. i've downloaded added to my reaktor library but when i try to use the space echo in as an insert in cubase no output signal is emerging. there is definitely input audio going in but nothing comes out and all my tweaks so far have yielded nothing. i'm sorry to ask for what is tech advice but maybe you can help me. all the best, pete

15 years ago

I can't believe it's not the real thing!

Christopher Soulos

15 years ago

Jesse, I like to have the bpm function but I do understand the spirit of this release. It's like my old one, except I don't have to take spare tapes to gigs with yours! FYI all replaced with a Boss RE-20 live now. Sounds the same, really. Plus Boss added Tap Tempo, extended delay time and a shortcut to self modulation. I'd say go for it! If you add bpm then make it look like you drilled a hole in the workshop to mod it. That would be cool. How about the Dimension D? A real one sells for about a grand even today. Can't wait to see the Moogerfoogers...

Jesse Voccia

15 years ago

I would love to see it!

Alex

15 years ago

Hi Jesse, This is a great effect. Love the look, feel and sound! I took the liberty of customizing your RE-201 for my personal use (including an analog looking sync box). If you like I can upload it to the library.

Jesse Voccia

15 years ago

What other features do you want? The original version I made had the bpm sync, but I thought it was more in the spirit of the original to leave it freehand. I am working on a prototype 501...with the sound on sound/chorus thing. The mode selector dial still is a mystery to me, the wrap function still escapes my understanding. I am also working on a CE-1. Basically Reaktorizing the entire UA product line! I also have a Moogerfooger Delay and Moogerfooger Murf coming soon. Built around Johnathan Style's Freqbox.

Christopher Soulos

15 years ago

Wow. I've been using this for a month and it's still my fave plugin. I got curious and got an old RE-201 and the new RE-20 to compare it. Yours has it's own sound. But it's still my go to effect when I'm in dub mode! In fact, it's in my standard setup template in Cubase 4. Will there be any further tweaks?

Christopher Soulos

15 years ago

BTW I use it as a plug-in in Cubase 4. Insert or Send effect, it works beautifully. Midi recall of all automation, cool! Thanks again.

Christopher Soulos

15 years ago

I used a real one for 5yrs and just bought the new RE-20 to replace it. This is a marvelously well thought out unit. I'm very pleased how it sits in my mixes and recordings. Well done and more deserved kudos. Now I have my old friend back!

Nick Petty

15 years ago

So So So nice!

Jopy

15 years ago

This is a great instrument that surely took many unpaid hours to create, and I really appreciate the time and thought that went into this. Michat's original sounded fantastic and you've upped the ante. Thank you!

Laurent Levesque

15 years ago

Could'nt you just make an ens for us ? That would be cool and easier Thanks

Jesse Voccia

15 years ago

Find an ensemble you like (or an empty one) and go to the structure view (the one where you can see the wires connecting the different objects). Right click in an empty area and choose "insert instrument->open instrument" and navigate to where your downloaded the .ism. Then just wire up the ins and outs as you want them. In general... to be able to bring other ".ism"s into your ".ens"s you have to save the objects as ".ism" first, just right click on an object and choose "save instrument as". Then just follow the first procedure. I hope this helps.

Johnathan Strate-Hootman

15 years ago

The download is not an ensemble, it's an instrument file. This may be a dumb question, but how do I use this?

michael huckaby

15 years ago

excellent design. DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA HOW TO FIX THE MODE SELECTOR SWITCH AS STATED WITHIN THIS ENSEMBLE? THIS WOULD BE PERFECT.

Michael Wöstefeld

15 years ago

Hi Jesse, canÂ´t wait to try it out! IÂ´m glad you like my ME-201. My free time is very limited at the moment, but I hope I can check it out at the weekend. Greetings, Michat.

Fabio Ricci

15 years ago

Very great! The Design and the Quality !!

Michael Barker

15 years ago

Had a chance to check this out - skin aside (it's asking for trouble), I like your UA inspired effect panning addition to Michats Space Echo, and the bypass/muting is useful too (and the clever assigning of the modwheel to the echo volume, nice!). I like Spring Tank too, and I also tried subbing it for michat's reverb, it sounds good (nice setting you got there) but it's a bit dear on the CPU - I tend to run Michats space echo 101 style, with no reverb! Anyway, check out my michat space echo thread in the forums if you're curious about my own mic-hackery. Oh yes, and I second the request for a RE-501 model... or a 555 for that matter!

Christopher Soulos

15 years ago

Thanks for the hot up. And the skin? Well, only time will tell if you become famous at Roland or UA! Cheers

Ned Bouhalassa

15 years ago

Woah! Wicked!! Thank you very much for this beauty.

Michael Barker

15 years ago

Looking forward to checking this out, I've spent alot of time myself hacking michats space echo ensemble. I'm a little concerned about your pretty skin - it's not Roland who might be upset, it's universal audio!

Kimmo Kivelä

15 years ago

Hmm! Very well made UI. Have to see this. I mean hear.

Benjamin Suthers

15 years ago

thank u.

Phil Durrant

15 years ago

this is great and SOUNDS great. of course it looks wonderful as well, I am a big fan of the Michat range. please do a version of the Roland Chorus echo (RE-501), and you will make an old dub fanatic very happy.

Jonathan Style

15 years ago

Also you might want to change up that skin a bit. As cool as it is Roland might be a bit upset.

Jonathan Style

15 years ago

Run Stephan V's Sick Bastard through this W00H00!

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