YANKI

A tape echo in time with your song, ready to swell into a loop. $9 · Standalone app, VST3 and AU on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel); VST3 on Windows (64-bit).

Drop YANKI on a vocal or a bus and it is already in time: a 1/8 echo at your host tempo, a few repeats that fade the way tape does. When the song wants more, pick a mood. Push FEEDBACK past HOLD in Dub Spiral, Worn Loop and the others, and the loop swells up to the CAP you set, so a dub throw can grow big without running away from you.

Moods

Echo

Each ring is a repeat: its size is the time, its brightness the level after feedback.

Swell

Feedback past HOLD makes the loop swell, up to CAP.

Moods

From a clean repeat to a loop that keeps growing: Echo, Slapback, Three Heads, Dub Spiral, Worn Loop, Yesilcam and Ters. Each one is a starting point; every knob is still yours.

One tape loop, three playback heads

Everything runs through a tape loop with one record head and three playback heads. Each pass loses top end, picks up a little wow and flutter and is gently saturated, so the repeats sound like tape, not a copy. TIME follows the host tempo continuously and glides to a new tempo instead of jumping; YANKI reports zero latency, so the dry signal is never delayed.

See the repeats

The glass echo field draws one ring per repeat: the radius is the delay time, brightness and thickness are the level after feedback, warmth is the tone, and the left-right offset is the stereo spread. Drag the rings to change TIME, FEEDBACK and SPREAD; the readout below shows the repeats, the first repeat's level and how many bars the echo takes to die away.

The controls

• TIME — A sync ring (1/16, 1/8, dotted 1/8, 1/4, dotted 1/4, 1/2) or FREE milliseconds.
• FEEDBACK — Repeat level. At HOLD the repeats fade by about 1 dB each; past it, the red SWELL range, the loop swells.
• CAP — Ceiling for a swelling loop: off, or -12 to +12 dB over the dry signal.
• TONE — Tone of the repeats.
• WEAR — Tape wear.
• MIX — Dry to wet. At 100 %, Echo, Yesilcam and Ters give echo only; in Slapback, Three Heads, Dub Spiral and Worn Loop the dry stays at full level and MIX sets how much echo is added.
• OUTPUT — Output level.
• END — What happens to the loop at the end: hold, cut or dump.
• FREEZE — Tap to latch, hold for momentary.
• DARKEN — An extra high-cut in the feedback loop. It acts on the swell; below HOLD it has almost no effect.
• RISE · TEMPO LOCK · SPREAD · FINE — How far the swell reaches past HOLD, when it lands on the downbeat, stereo spread of the echoes, and a fine time offset on FREE.

Buying and downloading

$9. Updates appear on your Account page; the version you have keeps working forever.

macOS 11 or later · Windows, 64-bit · Standalone app, VST3 and AU on macOS; VST3 on Windows · One licence, your own computers, personal and commercial use · Paid through Lemon Squeezy in US dollars; refunds: subverselab.com/refunds

Sold through Lemon Squeezy. After you pay, sign in with the e-mail you paid with: the download appears on this page and on your Account page, with your licence key. Install and open it in your DAW. Your licence key is on your Account page; the current versions do not ask for it.

Manual

YANKI manual · PDF