Re: "Tape Speed" style pitch/speed variation (was: Re: repeaterquestion)

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: "Tape Speed" style pitch/speed variation (was: Re: r

Thanks Per..

When I gave up my modified reel to reel and began looping using a DDL, I really liked having a knob to control the loop speed... then as the 1980s wore on nearly every DDL used paged memory to control delay times and sample rates were fixed. How joyless!  I cannot properly relate how intuitive it is to use a knob to control the pitch of a loop. I hope that more manufacturers will get back to this level of live manipulation and control.

 

> > > THe
> > > Electro
> > > harmonix 2880 will
> > > behave exactly like tape and it has a single knob to
> > > vary the 'tape
> > > speed'.
> On 23 aug 2006, at 16.11, Bob Amstadt wrote:
> > Since we are
> > mentioning other devices, the latest Looperlative firmware update
> > added the ability to control speed on one or more tracks via a MIDI
> > continuous controller.  Speed can be varied anywhere between
> > normal speed and half speed with the current firmware release. 
> > Any combination of the 8 tracks can be controlled
> > simultaneously.
>
>
> I like this basic sound design technique
> so much that I gave it unique subject name, now since we have left
> specific Repeater territory ;-)) 
>
> It's funny how this effect once was
> looked down at as "crappy", like an out-of-date way of
> changing pitch in ancient samplers by simply modifying the  rate.
> With the Repeater it wasn't even possible with the first OS version
> and I guess most people back then valued "instant time-stretch"
> more. But fact is that when you play around with rate/speed shifting
> you find a new creative palette in those other tempi coming from
> different pitches running at different speed. When looping on my
> Mobius laptop I usually prefer this "old-school-crap"
> pitch/speed change for the rhythmic and tonal variation it brings when
> used in a multi track looping context. My direct comparison here is
> how my Repeater sounded when applying it's pitch change while NOT
> changing the loop length. I'm not sure the cc 14 trick with the
> Repeater was instantly available for multiple tracks?
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com
> (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm
> (podcast)
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