Re: "hold" note uninterrupted feature

[Gary Phillips <gary@friendlyspider.com>]

I assume you are talking about playing a guitar and sampling its output.
You would need to sample a part of the sound after the initial attack
but before the sound begins to change in volume or timbre.  You would
not be able to apply any vibrato or tremelo to the note before sampling.
(you could apply these effects after sampling)  The odds of grabbing a
perfect loop from a short sample are very slim.  You would need a
gizmo that does a crossfade dissolve on a loop on the fly.
I know of no pedal or rack unit that does this...  Lots of sound editing
software does it, but not in real time.  Even with a simple crossfade, you
would probably hear the cycling nature of the tone because of the
complexities of a guitar note.  Now if you were playing a sine wave
-or a non-leslied organ...... possibly.
--
gary
@friendlyspider.com

> >From: Sorceror777@aol.com
> >
> >Im looking for a unit that will allow me to play one note, hit a button 
>on
> >the floor once, and it will sample and hold that note continuously and
> >uninterrupted without any hint of decay or repeated attacks. Something 
>like
> >a
> >digital sustain pedal (for a guitar rig), that does not repeat the 
>initial
> >attack like a looper does, but will hold a continuous drone of the note 
>I
> >play when I activate the unit.
> >
> >Also I do not want to have to hold the pedal down to keep the note
> >sounding,
> >I want to be able to hit the button once, which makes the note sound
> >uninterrupted for as long as I want, play whatever I want unaffected
> >(echo-free), and then when Im sick of the background droning note, I hit
> >the
> >button once again to deactivate the unit.
> >
> >The unit may be a simple stompbox or a rackmount, as long as I can 
>control
> >the feature via footswitch.
> >
> >Anyone know of ANYTHING of this sort,
> >thanks
> >Jesse Malone