usage of voltage controlled Delays, was: Effects Dynacord DDL-15, Vestakaza Dig-420
2008-03-02 by Florian Anwander
this is an answer to a question that richard sent me private, but I think it is of general interest: Hello Richard > the Vestakaza is somewhat crazy with strange controls , I like the karplus > strong aspect which is quite dark and dirty sounding... the sampling > aspect seems quite useless - really from another age! It makes me think > about the doepfer or maybe moogerfooger delays.... The sampling is very early-eighties like. What I did was sample very low noises and play them on high pitch as percussive addons for analog sequencer sounds. Similar to what the Roland D50 is using the short samples. (To make it A100 relevant: this could be done with a A-112) Did you get it, that you can overdub, when the delay is in hold modus. If you now modulate with the CV some very strange sounds can happen. Something similar works in normal delay mode too. I always had the CV input connected to the Sequencer (either A-155 or via MIDI-CV interface to Abelton Live). The change of the Delaytime to rhytmical sequences is the trick. I recently found, that a lot of the unconventional rhythms from Spectrasonics are made this way. This is something one should try with a 2048 or 4096 stage version of the A-188-1. all the best, Florian