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Re: Does this effect exist?



That exists in the VG-9.

One of the D-Beam controlled features.

Play a note or a chord and wave your hand (or headstock) over the beam  
and the note or chord becomes a seamless drone.

Wave your hand (or headstock) over it again and it stops.

Quite effective.

On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Warren Sirota wrote:

> I feel it would be useful to have a "freeze" effect that, while a  
> footswitch was held down, would seamlessly loop the previous n  
> milliseconds of sound (with n probably between 150 and 400 or so).  
> This is perhaps for a solo jazz guitar context, but there certainly  
> are other applications. So if i had a note that i was playing that I  
> wanted to sustain while I drop in say, a couple of filler chords, i  
> could hit the button and hold it down to do this (and, obviously,  
> the chords would *not* be input to the freeze function). I don't  
> know what you'd call this - "fingerless infinite sustain"? Anyway,  
> maybe this is doable with one of the reverbs I have, or maybe  
> there's some kind of dedicated effect. any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Warren