All things audio "Freeze and Capture" thread

[Faldoe]

I've been trying to think about what really gets my excited sonically and after playing with my freeze more and more, it's freezing/capturing audio. Especially at the right time when it kind of sounds odd and dissonant.

I'm looking for all pedals or gear that can capture audio in a freezing manner, no necessarily Holding, like with the Boss DD series and other sample like stuff.

What is out there - besides the Freeze and Super Ego - where you can capture audio, but also manipulate it?

What about VST software stuff?

[pd~]

Boss GT-100 and GT-001 have both sound hold/freeze and delay hold options, along with a huge number of effects/assign/routing options for manipulation. Honestly, what they packed into a $200 used GT-001 is insane, if you're willing to menu dive.

Timebender lets you do repeat hold, then messing with the delay time knob will change the loop depending on what mode you're in - digital glitches, analog pitch shift, tape warp. Then tap tempo slices the loop for more manipulation. Best feature of the pedal, IMO.

[fever606]

If you're not afraid of rabbit holes...

http://www.audiodamage.com/hardware/pro ... ?pid=ADM15

http://mutable-instruments.net/modules/clouds/

[echorec]

I wish there was a pedal version of the Phonogene.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZu-_bwK5Q[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI5H3SXiFwo[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

Put it on the floor with a Sewastopol and a Bypass looper?

[PlasticPeople]

I like the Eventide H9 for this purpose. The Timefactor algorithms let you sample/hold whatever is currently cycling through the buffer, which is nice for creating a "frozen" tone with more of a rhythmic element. The Space algos have switchable "Freeze" modes. I like using the Hall mode into dirt, freezing just the high frequencies of the reverb trails and then playing lower timbres beneath the ensuing chaos.

[lordgalvar]

Compressor, good timing, revolver (I can almost do it without a compressor and a short glitch mode time if I hit it right). Any looper would probably work if you can time it right with a short enough loop and an even signal.

Thinking about it, I was doing that with the revolver to make carrier oscillators on the fly. I was thinking befor about when I would use it to mute my attack (sample small part of sustained guitar, re pluck the string, resample) for triggering the memloss.

The new Raptio is supposed to have CV.

[Uncle Grandfather]

I wish there was a pedal version of the Phonogene.

A similar journey led me to granular delays, and this Patch Box turned clouds and phonogene into pedals. Box has pretty smart patching for the stomp's so you can control different modulation sources to be on/off for instance. plus there are 2 expression pedal jacks you can patch to however many parameters. Its pretty versatile with just a couple expression pedals and some random voltage/chaos

[spacelordmother]

Try your freeze in a feedback loop

Z Cat makes a couple pedals with hold.

Do you count hold/infinite reverbs like the Cathedral, and the VST Ambience?

If you're an Ableton/m4l user the free monolake granulator device make some nice noise, but my main jam is The Party Van: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com/the-party-van

[Gone Fission]

A bunch of old rack delays have an infinite or hold mode, like my old Delta Labs Effectron II ADM-1024. The Roland SRV-2000 is unusual for having an affirmatively designed infinite reverb switch, where other boxes like the Lexicon LXP-15 II can also do that with some control assignment--it's pretty cool, like a hanging cloud.

[kbit]

Try your freeze in a feedback loop

Im now thinkng about my super ego on auto with gliss in a feedback loop...

[Willem]

You can add the hold function of the OBNE Procession and Dark Star in the list.

[lordgalvar]

I know the op said he wanted to find more freeze (I.e. no space between notes granular kinda stuff) as opposed to the more traditional hold delay, but the Aria ADD-100 has a hold feature with modulation.

The mod effects the sample when holding (turning the time knob works as well).

Also kind of weird about it is that it is continuously recording and when you hit hold, it holds the last amount of time you've specified not the amount of time after the switch is pressed. So now if you've got 512ms set, it repeats the last 512 ms as long as you hold the switch (I guess a lot are like this, but it just felt different). When the hold switch isn't in use, it goes back to mod delay.

Found one cheap after Eivind and I talked about some stuff in Japan and it came in recently. Quite nice and it made my dd-3 and other stuff redundant.

[Dandolin]

lg--dat Aria looks awspliferous! Do you have to use a step-down transformer with, though?

[lordgalvar]

Nah, it's close enough. I've never had a problem on the ac powered ones. The DC wall warts I've gotten from Japan are another story...those never work. These were exported to the USA too and I don't imagine anything was changed inside. But I don't know haha.