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Re: "Tape Speed" style pitch/speed variation

One the computer, the best plug-in I've found that does this is the
Lexicon PSP42 plugin. I just wish the range of the pitch knob was
greater!

On 8/23/06, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:
>
>  Definitely one of my favorite things about using tape, or the old DDL's.
> The great thing about the old Digitech PDS-2000 and PDS-8000 pedals (and 
>I
> assume the rackmount versions) is that, if an echo is captured at one
> extreme end of the delay time knob, twisting it to the extreme in the 
>other
> direction will yield a perfect smooth two-octave jump, with all the fun
> microtones in between.
>
>  The one thing I wish that worked was for the "delay range" toggle to 
>hold
> the echo in memory, so that a one-motion jump was also possible by 
>switching
> between the ranges, but such was not to be.
>
>  Bill Frisell and Nels Cline are great illustrators of using and abusing 
>the
> loop speed/pitch "feature" of older DDL's.
>
>  Daryl
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