Add Echoes: Create and Customize Echoes Shapes

This guide offers a step-by-step approach to creating and customizing Echo shapes, enabling users to enhance their projects with precise audio triggers. It covers both circle and polygon shapes, allowing for quick placements or detailed customizations based on user needs.

Natalie Gallagher
21 steps
4 minutes

Echoes

Click the **pencil icon** to open your project

Click this button to add an echo select a shape. There are two shape options you can add 1. Circle: Quick to place 2. Polygon: Allows for more to control and custom shaping

[[To add a]]**Circle Echo,** click the Circle Icon.

To **draw**, \*click\* on the map where you want a circle echo, hold and drag outward to the size you want

\*Click\* on the circle inorder to activate **edit mode**, now you can **move** or **resize** the Echo

To **move** a Circle Echo, "click" on the center point and drag it to a new location.

To **resize** a Circle Echo, *\*click\* on the outer point and drag the outer ring*\ *inward to shrink or outward to enlarge.*

Click "PUBLISH CHANGES" to save progress and update Echo shape on maptext field.

Click this text field to type the name of the Echo

Scroll down and Click "ADD SOUND ELEMENT"

Click this button to **upload an audio/sound** file from your device.\ \ \*NOTE: Use uncompressed audio wherever possible, such as wav, aiff or flac. (mp3 not recomended)

Click this text field to name the file

Click "PUBLISH CHANGES"

To **add a Polygon Echo**, click the Square-Icon button

Click on the Map to place points and begin drawing the polygon

Continue to click on the map to add points and draw out the desired shape

To complete the shape, click on the first point you made

To **adjust** a Polygon Echo shape, select a point on the shape and drag it to reposition the boundary

Create a custom- shaped trigger area for more precise control over where audio is activated. With polygons you can shape sound around landscape by clicking on the orange dots and adjusting their location to make it more precise

Always Click "PUBLISH CHANGES" to save your work