088: Hold Delay

[Gunnar]

I was playing around with sounds and effects last night and gave the Hold Delay a spin. One of many effects I hadn't really used before. It is basically a loop-pedal. And there went my evening

In its default setting, it is set to auto-length (like a normal loop pedal) and records on JS+Y and clears the recording on JS-Y. Once you've recorded a basic layer, you can layer new ones by hitting the record trigger over again. It can hold a total of 5.4 seconds.

I was thinking one could go a bit further with this. Consider setting a Hold Delay on both MFX1 and MFX2 and use VJS +X/Y to record and VJS-X/Y to clear. Then set up a combi with a couple of instruments. Now, you can record and loop multiple layers and add / clear them in realtime.. (Probably have to set the loop to fixed then to avoid drift between them, but still). By setting the DRY/WET mix to an RT Knob, one could also "mute" these layers too.

Anyway, I thought I'd share, as I haven't read much about this effect in this forum, and it opens up for some pretty cool live playing.

[pete.m]

Thanks Gunnar,

That's very interesting. I'd always passed over that effect too. I'm certainly going to check it out now...

Pete.

[KK]

Hi Gunnar,

Yes that is a fun one as well. Some months ago I created a Frippertronics-like program using the 098 effect (Tape Echo). The 088 is rather similar and brings a longer loop, but the 098 is interesting as it recreates the typical sound idiosyncracies of old analog reel tape recorders like the famous Revox A77.