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Subject: Re: [motm] OT - Re: art of synthesis

From: Thomas Hudson <thudson@...>
Date: 2001-03-02

"Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" wrote:
>
> I wouldn't mind a VC'ed sampler. I had an idea for a VC'ed delay effect,
> which clocked the loading and unloading of individual samples into RAM
> (instead of a BBD) in the analogue domain, but I'm not technically savvy
> enough to touch the design. And I'm not sure how much you would have to
> gain, save for the notion that you could get infinite echos without
> resampling (which you would have to do with a BBD).

Find an old Roland RPS-10. Unlike most of today's digital
delays and rotary encoders, the RPS-10 allowed you to
change the delay smoothly with a normal pot, just like
analog. It also has pitch shifting, and an input on the
back that takes a sine wave to control the amount of pitch
shift. I haven't tried it yet but I'm hoping that the sin
actually controls the clock, so that the sine wave will
also control delay time as well as pitch shift.

I have one in my guitar rack that I use for some very good
backwards delay effects. I've been thinking of finding
another one to stick behind a MOTM panel.

You can get them pretty cheap, under $200.

Tomy