The best way I’ve found to
have useable accelerandi/ritardandi on the Repeater is using the CC pedals on my
trusty POS Behringer FCB1010.
CC#09 is for tempo/ Time
stretch , and CC#14 is for both tempo and pitch shift together. <<
as regards the business of
resolution, I will once again big-up the venerable peavey pc1600 series
controllers, which allow not only free assignment of controllers, note numbers,
sys-ex & other complicated stuff to any control, but also upper & lower
limits on the values generated by the faders. thus, one could use a fader
to generate CC values from (say) 50 to 70 over it's full travel, giving one much
finer control over something like a repeater's tempo. next, subsitute a pedal
for the fader.
in fact, if I have one
problem with the peavey pc1600, it's that there aren't more pedal inputs. I am
soon going to rack-mount my pc1600 (which is almost 13 years old!), swapping the
faders for knobs & adding more pedal/cv
inputs.
I play with a drummer who
hates playing to clicks, & likes the idea of a piece changing tempo as
dictated by the act of playing it. to accommodate this, I have experimented with
various tap-tempo tricks going back as far as the kahler human clock. now I
think an actual "throttle pedal" is probably the best way
forward.
d.
