"Tape Speed" style pitch/speed variation (was: Re: repeater question)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

THe Electro

harmonix 2880 will behave exactly like tape and it has a single knob to

vary the 'tape speed'.

On 23 aug 2006, at 16.11, Bob Amstadt wrote:

Since we are mentioning other devices, the latest Looperlative firmware update added the ability to control speed on one or more tracks via a MIDI continuous controller.  Speed can be varied anywhere between normal speed and half speed with the current firmware release.  Any combination of the 8 tracks can be controlled simultaneously.

I like this basic sound design technique so much that I gave it unique subject name, now since we have left specific Repeater territory ;-))  

It's funny how this effect once was looked down at as "crappy", like an out-of-date way of changing pitch in ancient samplers by simply modifying the  rate. With the Repeater it wasn't even possible with the first OS version and I guess most people back then valued "instant time-stretch" more. But fact is that when you play around with rate/speed shifting you find a new creative palette in those other tempi coming from different pitches running at different speed. When looping on my Mobius laptop I usually prefer this "old-school-crap" pitch/speed change for the rhythmic and tonal variation it brings when used in a multi track looping context. My direct comparison here is how my Repeater sounded when applying it's pitch change while NOT changing the loop length. I'm not sure the cc 14 trick with the Repeater was instantly available for multiple tracks?

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