<div dir="auto">I have the Blokas Midi hub, I've used the delay, but not a ton. I'll plug it in and report back. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">James</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 5:46 PM Niall Munnelly via music-bar <<a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>They made Bars & Pipes (or Sequitur, if you're me) in hardware:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blokas.io/midihub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://blokas.io/midihub/</a></div><div><br></div><div>So I'm looking at MIDI delays that I can play, to achieve that Steve Reich "phasing" composition gambit where two identical motifs play simultaneously, but rush and drag against each other. Piano Phase and Clapping Music come to mind, or the opening pulses from "Music for 18 Musicians," which may be the example I'm really looking for. I found this whilst checking out some of the usual suspects, like MIDI Solutions, as well as some vintage offerings from Yamaha and "really overkill for something like this" solutions like the G2 or Signal Arts MAPS (no dice, but I got some other cool things out of it). But I'm in a world where Tony, James Coplin and others exist, so I put it to you:<br><br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Did MIDI Solutions or some similar auld company make a dynamic MIDI delay, ideally with at least one controller, like:
CV/Expression
Mod wheel
NRPN (one can hope) or CC if the delays are significantly constrained
Some kind of internal modifiers, like syncable LFOs or something?</font></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Have you any experience with a simple, but modulatable and reliable, MIDI echo?
MIDI Solutions' own MIDI Delay does not appear to be a realtime effect - you have to send it a sysex message and wait an appreciable interval for it to update.</font></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span>The Blokas thing looks very promising from the outset. I'll have to read more.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span>The Yamaha MEP4: I've never seen it before, but it looks insanely powerful and looks like it risks becoming one's personality.
</span></font><a href="https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/yamaha-midi-event-processor/1621" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/yamaha-midi-event-processor/1621</a><br><br><br>Other options: I'll bet the Sequentix stuff does this in standby mode. I could probably learn enough of some language eventually to make a small utility on the Mac, but I'm still not a programmer and I still don't like using a computer for music anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>Then there are solutions like PD, Max, probably Bitwig or Live, which admittedly are better than trying to write something bespoke, but still. I want my box with a dial and/or MIDI and CV/Gate.</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yours,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Niall.</span></div></div>
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