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  • November 9, 2009 at 2:49 am #79291
    Louis
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    Is there a tap tempo for any of the analog delays, (MM, MB, etc)?

    Also, in the last Effectology Rupert used a photocell in the place of an expression pedal, is there a way that this can work like a tempo control for the analog delays? Or is there another better way?

    November 9, 2009 at 5:21 am #103564
    owen
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    There is no tap tempo built in, but you should be able to mod either one of the pedals to have it, and i have also heard of expression pedal mods for the MM, so if you had an expression pedal for tap tempo then i suppose you could just put the photocell in its place like on the video

    November 13, 2009 at 2:27 am #103704
    jorgerg
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    Can you really mod the MB adding a tap tempo?, if that´s true i´d like to know how, i just ordered my MB should be arriving soon…

    November 13, 2009 at 2:31 am #103705
    owen
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    i dont personally know how to do it but there are analog delays with tap tempo’s, it would probably be a pretty heavy mod but it is possible

    November 13, 2009 at 7:05 am #103710
    julian
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    Technically you can mod any delay for tap tempo, you could program a PIC to do it, but that’s very indepth, and it’d be much cheaper and less time consuming to just get a delay that already has tap tempo

    November 13, 2009 at 3:13 pm #103713
    diblet
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    just wait until the deluxe memory boy comes out

    November 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm #103718
    julian
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    pretty much

    Before the DMB news came out I was thinking about getting a Memory Boy and making a tap-tempo unit for it.

    Basically it would have been a separate pedal that has the Memory Boy (or other delay with expression control over delay time) in the loop and would also be connected to the expression control.

    There’d be a tap mode and a calibration mode. In calibration mode, for different values inputted into the delay time expression it would pulse a sound into the loop, and then from the output of the loop listen and calculate the rhythm of the echoes. Then it would make a graph of Expression output vs Rhythm. Then in tap-tempo mode, it would use that data to translate your tempo into an expression output to get the correct rhythm.

    I could do this cheaply myself because I already have the hardware and software I need to program a digital chip to do that logic. But for most people to do that, they’d have to also buy hardware and software- and it’s not worth it for a single mod.

    And now it’s really not worth it now that the DMB is coming out.

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