Presets
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Arp delay. Octave down, 4th down, and 5th up.
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Special effect looping. Quartertone steps increase in number and pitch over time.
Flex switch press brings the pitch of each step up to a semitone increment.
The loop eventually blurs, deconstructs, and decays with the barberpole-style rising pitch.
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Drive with delayed Octave Down and 2 Octaves Down.
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This preset sets up a playback sampler, with each of the 20 samples being a 1/4 note long. Of course, that can change to any number of samples at any length (in 1-beat increments, and within the limitations of the Looper algorithm).
First, configure the preset below, then hit Record to sample in your 20-beat phrase.
Expression Pedal Heel: PLY-START = 1.0 BEATS
Expression Pedal Toe: PLY-START = 20.0 BEATS
After recording, hit Stop (optional with the AUTOPLAY set).
Change the PLY-LENGTH knob setting from 20.0 BEATS to 1.0 BEAT.
That can be done manually, in H9 Control, with an Aux switch, or over MIDI.
Resume Playback (if Stopped), or continue to AP:LOOP.
Use the Expression Pedal to select any 1/4 note sample from 1-20 for looping.
Change PLAYMODE to ONCE for one-shot phrase triggers.
The image below shows sample #4 looping, due to the current PLY-START position.
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Expression pedal brings in 2500ms and 250ms delay.
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The Resonator algo has it all. Two FREEZE positions over delay FEEDBACK types, a decent REVERB, and a four bands of narrow filters. You can stack NOTE (1-4), split them across the spectrum, emphasize the RESONANCE, stagger them with delay, and regenerate accurately, or while scattering the delay patterns.
For control, the HotSwitch flips from FB1: 97 to its complimentary FREEZE position. It'll always stay close to, or at a near-frozen condition. You could get some noise buildup in an idle condition here, even without intentional input. So there has to be a way to bail out of high feedback / FREEZE.
The expression pedal sweeps from FB1: 97, nudges past the FB1 / FREEZE HotSwitch range, passes through all of the FB2 positions, and ends up at the 2nd FREEZE setting available (fully clockwise, for FB2). This will allow several moves within one pedal sweep:
Full Heel will be close to an infinite repeat, but will eventually decay away.
With a good pedal & sensitive foot, you might be able to nail the FREEZE position (within a few clicks of the Heel default).
A small move forward pushes it into very low FB2 levels (effectively purging the frozen drone).
The middle 2/3 of pedal throw give you access to all of the degrading-loop levels of FB2.
Full Toe puts the FREEZE to the disintegrated pattern at one moment in time.
So its HotSwitch to toggle near-frozen with one FREEZE type, plus EXP PED to 'erase' any hold, and span all variations to FREEZE #2.
Deep REVERB (kind of a combination DECAY / SIZE / LEVEL) glues & smoothes everything together with a wash. Shorter LENGTH will fuse the four delays together, up to infinite metallic resonances. Longer LENGTH adds a RHYTHM-ic component to the droning sounds, with dozens of patterns available. Those patterns can be tuned using 4 resonant filters. In this preset, they highlight a wide spread over the available frequency spectrum, with enough RESONANCE to flavor the frozen drone variations.
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Rhythmic bass-line generator.
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Octaves with multi-fx sequences.
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"Wipe" the infinite looping by sweeping the midpoint of the expression pedal travel.
Interesting places to HotSwitch abound here. Some examples:
Feedback = 99 to Feedback = FREEZE (loops on ice)
Feedback = 99 to Feedback = 0 (loop aging)
The 'sweet spot' between Gravity = 0-1 & Inv-Gravity = 0-1 (loop bends/chops)
Throttling up Mod Depth to full (loop decimation sweep)
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The QuadraVox algorithm is great for all kinds of pseudo-fingerpicking and added note effects; with or without constrained-to-scale pitch shifts. Pick cleanly, limit your out-of-scale passing tones, and stick with octaves & fifths (or fourths) for simple 'chord' work.
In this preset, 4 additional notes ascend with equal spacing, from +2nd to +5th. The far end of the expression pedal changes that note sequence from a 5th to an octave above. Over the range of the EXP PED, the groups of notes will change together, but not perfectly in sync with each other. That adds even more variety to the added note sequences.
Here, it's built around an E minor scale, and that works well with single note lines, dyads, and 'power chords'. I like to adapt this technique to some of the more exotic scales available, and switch the directions around to fit the song context. Pitch A,B,C, and D will be played in order, in alternating channels. A+C on the left, and B+D on the right.
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Square tremolo.
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Strum-like glitches.
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Pedal steel-like bends that aren't confined to any genre. Envelope control over pitch bend.
Change Pitch A, Pitch B, and Mod Depth together for effects ranging from subtle doubling to extreme pitch sweeps. To land at unison, match the negative pitch shifter values to the positive Mod Depth value. Adjust Mod Sens to your playing style, and desired frequency of effect. [Inspired by an ADR III FX module]
I added some optional EXP PED control to fade in dotted 1/8 against 1/4 note echoes.
(It's possible to "shuffle" the shifted repeats with active expression pedal movements.)
Delay A Heel: NO DLY
Delay B Heel: NO DLY
Feedback Heel: 0
Delay A Toe: DOTTED 1/8
Delay B Toe: 1/4
Feedback Toe: 50
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Natural, 'random' vibrato effect. Use an expression pedal to fade the effect in.
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There's a slapback sync delay here before 1 octave & 2 octave upward shifts. Everything pre-pitch shifter is at a minimum. Nearly everything post-shifter and in the feedback loop is maxed out. It ends up as blooming, almost metallic slices of octave shimmers.
I had the expression pedal mapped 0-50 on the Pitch-Decay, for a subtle to medium effects. Ramp up to 100 for more extreme and in-your-face effects. My favorite technique of late is mapping the HotSwitch to change Pitch-Decay at 50 to the FRZ position (Pitch+Verb).
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Clean octave down, octave up, and 2 octaves up arp-delay.
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'Bowed' fade in tremolo.
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To start, the RT60 is at 50 seconds. (With unreal DECAY times of 20, 50, 100 seconds, sometimes there's little need to FREEZE it). A SQUARE LFO tremolo slices up the 'verb into a rhythm.
Here, the HotSwitch is programmed to switch between 50.0S and FREEZE. The expression pedal drops the SPEED from 10.0 Hz. to 1.0 Hz. It also lowers the HIGH FREQ from 2000 Hz., on down to 300 Hz. The result is a slowdown effect, using both rate and EQ changes. And it will act independently over the FREEZE drone, or the base position (long DECAY time).