I wanted to start a thread to list some of the “undocumented” capabilities of the 8-Step Program. After fiddling around with it now for a few months, i found a few uses that are beyond what might be considered normal. I am curious what others have found out about it, and how others are incorporating it into their setups.

Here’s something i learned tonight:

If you select the fastest time division, choose a sequence length of “2” and tap the tap tempo really fast, you can get the rate very high, like a few hundred hertz. This is much higher than sliding the rate slider all the way up. With this fast rate setting, i was able to do two things:

1. Plug the 8-step it into the expression port of my Stereo Polyphase and get ring modulation. I could tune the frequency with the expression pedal input to the 8-Step, and the expression pedal mode set to “rate”. Use the slider depth, glide and feedback controls on the polyphase to adjust the wave shape.

2. Since this rate is in the audio range, so you can use it as a tone generator. Again, you can tune the frequency with the expression pedal input set to “rate”. I ran the signal into the HOG, and filtered it, added octaves, etc. I am sure some madness will develop with a delay pedal or modulation of this signal.

So, there is a few ideas. Lets hear some other odd ways everyone else has been using this awesome pedal!