KascadeEcho / Bender
Kascade pairs a warm, tape-style echo with a pitch-bending engine. Keep it as simple, always-on ambience, or trigger whammy-style dips and plunges without ever touching your tuning. Push the Bender harder for vinyl stops and batteries running out. Subtle texture to total takeover.
Switch 1 · Routing
Bend into echoes, echo into bends
The Echo and the Bender can feed each other in either order or run side by side. Flip the routing to see where your signal goes.
Select
The Echo feeds the Bender. Your repeats get bent, so trails dive, warp and stop like tape.
Audio demos
Listen
Straight from the pedal. Headphones help.
Dialing from simple delay to tape effects to tribal drums to alien invasion.
Watch Kascade in action on YouTube.
Watch the videoControls
The panel
Three knobs run the Bender, three run the Echo, and three switches decide how they connect, how bends trigger and where the tempo comes from.
- Pot 1
- Bend TimeHow quickly the bend falls, rises or resolves.
- Pot 2
- Bend ShapeThe curve of the bend, from smooth and gradual to abrupt and mechanical.
- Pot 3
- Bend IntensityMix of the bend against your original signal.
- Pot 4
- Echo TimeFrom tight slapback and doubling to long rhythmic or ambient repeats.
- Pot 5
- Echo FeedbackSingle echoes up to sustained, self-building trails.
- Pot 6
- Echo LevelDelayed and bent signal against the dry.
- Switch 1
- RoutingEcho into Bender, Bender into Echo, or parallel.
- Switch 2
- Bend FXRepeats, one-shots or random bend triggering.
- Switch 3
- TempoFree, tap or MIDI clock.
- Left switch
- BendTriggers or controls the Bender according to the Bend FX mode.
- Right switch
- Bypass EchoTurns the echo on or off.
Specifications
Built for your whole rig
- Echo
- Up to 2.0 seconds
- Routing
- Echo → Bender, Bender → Echo, parallel
- Bend triggers
- One-shot, repeat or random
- Timing
- Free, tap and MIDI clock
- Audio
- 24-bit / 96 kHz, mono or stereo on TS/TRS
- MIDI
- Type-A TRS In and Thru, full CC control
- Expression
- APEX: assign any supported knob to an expression pedal
- Presets
- 128 onboard, managed in Keystone Control Center
- Updates
- Free lifetime firmware over USB
- Power
- 9V DC center-negative, regulated
- Warranty
- One year
Kascade is one of seven dynamic effects from Keystone Musical Instruments, an American company based in Bensalem, PA. Every Keystone pedal shares the same small enclosure, MIDI control, APEX expression and free firmware updates, so they work together on one board. Its LED glows red, its signature color.
Put Kascade on your board
Try it in your rig for 30 days. If it isn't for you, send it back.