Alesis Andromeda A6

The ION is being bundled with a free INEKO effects unit at Musician's 
friend. Is the INEKO a decent box to use for delay effects?
Patrick

--- In Andromeda_A6-ION@yahoogroups.com, "alesis_ben" <anoplura@e...> 
wrote:
> 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