Generate crystal-clear clock-synced delay for looping, echoes, sound-on-sound, Karplus Strong synthesis, and more with the 4ms Looping Delay DIY Kit, a do-it-yourself Eurorack compatible clock-based delay module designed for creative synthesis.
Not a tape or analog emulation, but a modern digital delay, the Looping Delay combines features of delay, looping, and sample-tight synchronization for powerful and dynamic sound capture and modification. Based on the Dual Looping Delay, the Looping Delay offers the same high-quality sound in a smaller, single-channel format. The Looping Delay Kit includes all the components needed to complete the module as well as a black panel.
Full DIY Kit
- Includes all the parts necessary to build a full-featured Looping Delay module
- Beginner-level kit: Soldering proficiency required
- Tools needed (not included):
- Soldering iron, solder
- Flush snips
- Needle-nose pliers (for removing a component if you make a mistake)
- 5/16" and 3/8" socket driver (optional: pliers will work too if you're careful)
- Multimeter (for reading resistor values if you don't know the resistor color-code chart)
Overview
- Stereo or mono mode (Return/Send becomes right channel In/Out in stereo mode)
- 87 seconds maximum delay/loop time in mono, or 43 seconds in stereo.
- 48 kHz / 24-bit sampling rate, loop recorded at 16-bit
- Extremely quiet, low noise, low jitter design
- Delay and loop time is syncable to a clock, or a division or multiplication of a clock
- Infinite Hold mode for looping and windowing
- Reverse feature for toggling direction of playback
- Feedback ranges from 0 to 110%
- 1V/octave tracking for Resonant Delays (Karplus-Strong)
- Wet/Dry mix output
- CV and trigger inputs for all features
Functions
- Time switches change range of Time knob from 1/8th notes up to 32 bars
- Digital feedback, up to 110%
- Delay Feed control, independent of dry/wet signal mix
- Infinite Hold mode disables recording and plays a loop
- Start and End points of loop can be modified in real-time for scrubbing or windowing
- Reverse mode plays memory contents backwards
- Resonant Delays (ala Karplus-Strong)
- Delay time can be as short as 650uS
- Time CV jack can respond at 1V/octave in Unquantized Time Mode
- Trigger inputs for toggling Infinite Hold and Reverse
- Send and Return for feedback with external modules
- Send and Return function as right channel In and Out in stereo mode
- CV jacks to control Time, Feedback, Delay Feed (record level), and Mix
- Various algorithms can be selected for interfacing with jittery external clocks (External Clock De-Jitter)
- Quantized Change Mode quantizes toggling of Infinite Hold and Reverse
Eurorack Ready
- 16 HP Eurorack format module
- Maximum Depth: 1.1" (28mm)
- Includes power ribbon cable with 16-pin Eurorack power headers
- Power consumption: +12V: 125mA, -12V: 45mA