"Holy Shit, Tony (Scharf)..."

[Niall Munnelly]

They made Bars & Pipes (or Sequitur, if you're me) in hardware:

https://blokas.io/midihub/

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:

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?

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.

The Blokas thing looks very promising from the outset. I'll have to read
more.

The Yamaha MEP4: I've never seen it before, but it looks insanely powerful
and looks like it risks becoming one's personality.
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/yamaha-midi-event-processor/1621


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.

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.

-- 
Yours,
Niall.
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