Re: CV or MIDI Expression-Controlled Delay Time?

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

>I am a guitar player [yet another one, forgive me lord...] and I am
>looking for a delay unit that has delay time controlled on-the-fly by an
>expression pedal, be it MIDI or CV based, as well as the ability to 
>"sample"
>live from my guitar signal. There are a million little stomp delay pedals 
>on
>the market, but I need to be able to change the delay time without bending
>over to tweak knobs or doing some weird foot stomping dance.
>   I don't care about the number of echoes/loops/layers[I always just use
>one]-But I want to be able to control the "tempo"/delay-time by variabl>e
>expression, NOT a tap-tempo stomp.
>      Can anyone recommend ANY Setup/unit that would enable one to
>accomplish this feat with one's feet? Thus far the only suggestion I've 
>had
>was to use the out of production BigBriar MoogerFooger Analog delay with a
>CV pedal, but they are both pricey pricey and somewhat scarce. . . Any
>suggestions?
>-TIA, --Roots

The old Digitech Time Machines would let you do this via CV.  And the
ever-popular DL-4 also lets you assign delay time to a CV pedal.

TH

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