Alesis Andromeda A6

Long story short: the Ion doesn't have delay because it doesn't have 
reverb.  Why doesn't it have reverb?  That's a long story, I'll stick 
to delay, here.  :P

The Ion's effects chip is very powerful.  It can do crazy filter-based 
effects like a 40-band vocoder or a 64-stage phaser.  It doesn't have 
very much delay memory, however.  So, no reverbs or long delays.  The 
Ion does have a short slap-back delay effect, but the max time is 
80ms.

We will be adding more effects in future OS updates.  Among these will 
be longer delays.  As you noted, we can't add memory with a software 
update, but we can do get longer times out of what we have with 
compression techniques (think MP3).  It's unlikely the max delay time 
will get over 500ms, but it should still be a very useable 
improvement. 

Ben Ling, Alesis

--- In Andromeda_A6-ION@yahoogroups.com, "Lincoln Kilby" 
<kirumamoru@y...> wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> Morten finally convinced me to sign up for this group; I'm a regular 
> at Harmony Central's KSS but I've been becoming more and more 
> interested in the Ion ever since Summer NAMM 2002, despite the 
> naysayers. ;)  Now it seems as if my interest might have been well-
> founded after all.
> 
> Anyway, Morton keeps us up to date but I keep asking technical 
> questions and he says "Come to my yahoo group and ask Ben Ling, he's 
> a developer", and I finally had a question so pressing that I 
> decided to do just that. :)
> 
> So, Ben, Morten says that delay is on your ION wishlist.  The 
> musical kind of delay, not the "The Ion has been pushed back to an 
> early September release date" kinda delay. ;)  I can personally live 
> without reverb, and I know good reverbs are processor intensive, but 
> an onboard delay, even global (not per part), is something I would 
> really love to have.  Tempo synched (and not), LCR... you know, not 
> much, just a simple, functional delay.  Now, it seems to me that for 
> delay, you'd have to have access to memory (a megabyte will give you 
> just under four seconds of recording time at 24 bits, 44.1kHz, 
> stereo) that may or may not be available.  How would you add 
> functionality like that via OS update?
> 
> I don't want you to give away engineering secrets or anything, but I 
> really do wonder how much hope I (or anyone) should have for this 
> being added.
> 
> Thanks, and hello to everyone again.
> 
> Kiru