Cool Ping Pong Delay Trick

If you are playing keyboard live, you will want to make excellent use of all the audio effects you have available to you. It’s one of the things that sets us apart from someone who is playing on a regular acoustic piano.

Ping pong delay is a great effect that you hear probably more often than you would expect. It’s a great way to add dimension and rhythm to a standard piano patch. It takes a delayed signal and moves it quickly back and fourth across a stereo feild.

Many ping-pong delays leave my sound a little muddy. I have created a bit of a workaround for that that will leave this effect still sounding crispy.

Rather than using Ableton’s ping pong delay device, I use the simple delay panned off to the side, and a clean chain panned to the other side within an instrument rack.

It’s fast to set up, and is a great effect to use for live performance.