RE: DP/4+ and DP/2

["Liebig, Steuart A." <LiebigSA@Maritz.com>]

Does the DP/2 have the same annoying [for me] software (rather than
hardware) bypass switch that the DP/4 does? I had a "4" and found that,
though all the stuff in it sounded really great, it was a little lacking
for my live on-the-fly improv playing-mostly because of the switch
mentioned (if you had a loop [I was using 3-4  looping devices at
various places in the chain] going INTO the DP/4, it made the loop
"disappear" for a moment when switching programs).  I also found it a
little hard to get around the 4 discrete processors when searching for
just the "right" one . . . so what's your opinion of the "2"?

> ----------
> From:         Chuck Zwicky
> Reply To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> Sent:         Tuesday, March 3, 1998 1:55 PM
> To:   LiebigSA@maritz.com
> Subject:      DP/4+ and  DP/2
> 
> The Ensoniq DP/4+ is a 2-space, rack mounted effects processor. It has
> 4
> DSP engines which may be configured in a variety of ways. It has 4
> physical
> inputs and 4 physical outputs. It can be operated as:
> 4 in / 4 stereo out (submixed as 2 pairs)
> 4 in /4 out mono processor
> stereo in (x2)/stereo out (x2).
> 
> It has 54 algorhythms, including:
> 
>  3.3 sec Delay (2U)
>  8 Voice Chorus
>  De-esser
>  Digital Tube Amp
>  Dual Delay
>  Ducker/Gate
>  Dynamic Tube Amp
>  EQ-Chorus-DDL
>  EQ-Compressor
>  EQ-DDL with LFO
>  EQ-Flanger-DDL
>  EQ-Panner-DDL
>  EQ-Tremolo-DDL
>  EQ-Vibrato-DDL
>  Expander
>  FastPitchShift
>  Flanger
>  Gated Reverb
> 
>  Guitar Amp 1
>  Guitar Amp 2
>  Guitar Amp 3
>  Guitar Amp 4
>  Guitar Tuner 2U
>  Hall Reverb
>  InverseExpander
>  Keyed Expander
>  Large Plate
>  Large Room Reverb
>  MultiTap Delay
>  No Effect
>  Non-Linear Reverb
>  Non-Linear Reverb 2
>  Non-Linear Reverb 3
>  Parametric EQ
>  Phaser-DDL
>  Pitch Shift 2U
> 
>  Pitch Shift-DDL
>  Pitch Shifter
>  Reverse Reverb
>  Reverse Reverb 2
>  Rotating Speaker
>  Rumble Filter
>  Sine/Noise Generator
>  Small Plate
>  Small Room Reverb
>  Speaker Cabinet
>  Tempo Delay
>  Tunable Speaker 1
>  Tunable Speaker 2
>  Van der Pol Filter
>  VCF-Distortion 1
>  VCF-Distortion 2
>  Vocal Remover (4U)
>  Vocoder (4U)
> 
> The DP/2 is a single space device with 2 DSP engines, and features
> several
> more 'guitar' oriented algos. 
> Total of 64 algos:
> 
> Hall Reverb
> Large Plate
> Small Plate
> Large Room
> Small Room
> Gated Reverb
> Reverse Reverb 1
> Reverse Reverb 2
> NonLinear Reverb 1
> NonLinear Reverb 2
> NonLinear Reverb 3
> MultiTap Delay
> Dual Delay
> Tempo Delay
> 3.6 sec DDL 2U
> 8 Voice Chorus
> Flanger
> Phaser-DDL
> Rotating Speaker
> Speaker Cabinet
> Tunable Speaker 1
> Tunable Speaker 2
> 
> Parametric EQ
> EQ-Gate
> EQ-Compressor
> Guitar Amp 1
> Guitar Amp 2
> Guitar Amp 3
> Guitar Amp 4
> Digital Tube Amp
> Dynamic Tube Amp
> VCF-Distortion 1
> VCF-Distortion 2
> FuzzBox
> Guitar Tuner 2U
> Pitch Shifter
> Fast Pitch Shift
> Pitch Shift-DDL
> Pitch Shift 2U
> Expander
> Keyed Expander
> Inverse Expander
> Ducker/Gate
> De-esser
> 
> Rumble Filter
> Van der Pol Filter
> Vocal Remover
> Vocoder 2U
> Sine/Noise Generator
> ADSR Envelope Generator
> No Effect
> Plate-Chorus
> Chorus-Reverb
> Flanger-Reverb
> Phaser-Reverb
> EQ-Chorus-DDL
> EQ-Flanger-DDL
> EQ-Panner-DDL
> EQ-Tremolo-DDL
> EQ-Vibrato-DDL
> EQ-DDL with LFO
> Distortion-Chorus-Reverb
> Distortion-Roto-Reverb
> Wah-Distortion-Reverb
> Compressor-Distortion- Flanger-Reverb
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Go here:  http://www.ensoniq.com/
> And select "Ensoniq Archives" For complete specifications.
> 
> 
> All of the effects offer an amazing array of parameters, so ring
> modulation
> and other such effects are easily acheived with any of several
> algorhythms.
>