Re: Does this effect exist?

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 Get an Ibanez DM series digital delay. Hook up the "hold" button to a 
footswitch. It will do what you are asking. I use it often.
rig

--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:

> From: Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>
> Subject: Does this effect exist?
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 8:41 AM
> I feel it would be useful to have a
> "freeze" effect that, while a footswitch was held
> down, would seamlessly loop the previous n milliseconds of
> sound (with n probably between 150 and 400 or so). This is
> perhaps for a solo jazz guitar context, but there certainly
> are other applications. So if i had a note that i was
> playing that I wanted to sustain while I drop in say, a
> couple of filler chords, i could hit the button and hold it
> down to do this (and, obviously, the chords would *not* be
> input to the freeze function). I don't know what
> you'd call this - "fingerless infinite
> sustain"? Anyway, maybe this is doable with one of the
> reverbs I have, or maybe there's some kind of dedicated
> effect. any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Warren
> 
>