Tapped Delay Lines

A tapped delay line is a delay line that provides access to its contents at arbitrary intermediate delay length values.
The block diagram of Fig. 19 illustrates a tap delay line of total length $M_{2}$ samples and a tap located at a delay of $M_{1}$ samples. In general, a tap delay line is implemented as a single buffer in memory.

Figure 19: A tap delay line of total length $M_{2}$ and a tap at $M_{1}$ .
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Tap delay lines can be interpolating or non-interpolating.
Tap delay lines can efficiently model multiple echoes from the same sound source and are useful in artificial reverberation.