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

[James Coplin]

I have the Blokas Midi hub, I've used the delay, but not a ton. I'll plug
it in and report back.

James

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 5:46 PM Niall Munnelly via music-bar <
music-bar at lists.music-bar.org> wrote:

> 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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