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Re: "hold note" function



If the EDP doesn't work out for you, I'd suggest hunting down a Boss
Feedbacker/Distortion which had the single note hold feature.

On 5/7/05, Donearlsto@aol.com <Donearlsto@aol.com> wrote:
> Forgive me if this is available in the archives, but I have been unable 
>to
> locate the answer I am looking for.  
>  
>  In the 80's there was a guitar amp I had for a time on which I could 
>play a
> note, tap a footswitch and indefinitely hold a note, until I tapped the
> footswitch again.  It was called, appropriately, a "hold note" function. 
> I
> am now looking for a way to do this. 
>  
>  With my old amp, their was no noticeable "click" etc.   I have owned a
> Boomerang in the recent past, and attempts to create a drone on it were
> miserable, always creating a rhythm, through the "click" at the 
>beginning of
> the loop.
>  
>  So my question:
>  I am going to buy an Echoplex anyway, so I am wondering:  Can I 
>configure
> this somehow to create this non-stop, Indian style, drone pitch, in real
> time?  If not, is there a product which will allow me to create a drone, 
>"on
> the fly" and in real time? 
>  
>  Thanks for any help.
>  
>  --
>  Donovan Stokes
> 
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