I know the pedal is brand new, and maybe no one knows the answer to this yet, but I am looking at the 8 step sequencer expression pedal to use in unison with my Line 6 M5 pedal. I currently have a mission expression pedal that I use with it, and I know that I had to seek out a pedal specifically designed to be compatible with line 6 devices. No stores in town have one for me to experiment with yet, so if anyone knows the answer, I’d appreciate it.

Thanks

EHX has always marched to the beat of a different drum, and they’ve even made a ton of funky drum pedals! Back when disco was king, EHX was pumping out pedals with trigger inputs like the famous Space Drum, and others like the Rolling Thunder, Sonic Boomer, Clap Track, Panic Button, etc. They also made simple drum pattern boxes like the DRM16 and DRM32 (Which I had the pleasure to use in a recording a few years ago). All of these were warm analog beats in the early days of the drum machine.

EHX can finally bring these great sounds to the 21st Century with this idea:

Imagine a pedal built into the Ravish enclosure. It has the Ravish’s LED output to let the user pick drum sounds (a list of them could be in the manual) from EHX’s past or even new ones. A list could look like:

“00 – Metronome
01 – Kick (From DRM16/DRM32)
02 – Kick (From Rolling Thunder)
03 – Kick (From Sonic Boom)
04 – Snare (From DRM16/DRM32)
..
..
21 – Space Drum (From Space Drum)
22 – Panic Button (From Panic Button)”

ETC.

It has two footswitches: a momentary switch for recording and a 3pdt switch for start and stop. Once you pick a tempo for your pattern, the LEDs would scroll to the tempo (like how they do on your AWESOME new 8-step). When you want to put a drum sound somewhere, just tap on the RECORD momentary footswitch. It is now added to the loop. Like if you picked kick, you could tap on the one-beat and on the five-beat (if it has 8-steps, in 4/4 time), now you’ve got a kick drum beat down.

Scroll to a new drum sound, tap where you want it. Layer to your heart’s content.

Let’s say you pick a sound like the Space Drum and you want to tweak the sound of it. EHX used to have deluxe versions of some of their drum sounds, and the Super Space Drum was one. You could fine tune where you wanted the start and stop frequencies of the sound, and how fast and deep you wanted the modulation to go. Those settings could be open to all drum sounds. You could tweak the tone and then tap it in your rhythm. When you save a pattern, the changed drum sounds used in the pattern could be saved as well.

Those big drum pads used in the old pedals aren’t necessary anymore now that drummers have custom pads to trigger such things, pedal geeks have things like the 8-Step Sequencer, and synth players have always had their CV sequencers, synthesizers with CV-out, etc. Just have a midi plugin for the drummers to input their triggers, CV in to plug in your 8-step or other sequencers, and a footswitch to save 100 presets instead of however many you can fit on the pedal itself.

Besides a regular output, maybe an output for the sequence (the tempo and the rhythm without any tones) for routing to other effects?

It would be incredible if this could be analog like the old pedals, but the wizardry in the newest digital effects leads me to believe that even digital tones would sound good and be fun for practice, experimenting, synth players, and more. Make this happen and send me one please!

Hello,

Does any one know if the CV out signal could be split between the expression input of two pedals at the same time? I think it would be very exciting to be able to control the sweep of a low pass filter and the VCO of an analogue synth pedal simultaneously with this sequencer.

Thanks,

Sjon

A small 8-step (?) sequencer expression/CV pedal with tap tempo and random mode!

As a lot of you newer pedals have expression pedal inputs, the idea is to expand this feature with a random or ramp up/down expression sequencer with tap tempo.

this would be such a cool tool.

it would turn the riddle into a stepfilter.
the stereo polyphase into a stereo stepphaser.
think of the amazingly cool things you could do with a memory man tt or memory boy if used with different expression settings.
think of controlling the HOG with such a tool.

for EHX this should be a fast and cool pedal inbetween-design.

you need a name?

how about “the one ring” (to rule them all!)

please consider this.

thanks and best regards

diego

Hi guys,

I know a few of you use synths in your music and was wondering if any of you knew of a small, tidy (more importantly) inexpensive hardware MIDI step sequencer that I could use to control my Microkorg? It’s got an arpeggiator built in, but I find it very limited. I’ve googled all sorts of variations on ‘MIDI step sequencer’ but can’t find what I’m after, not even anything close, which is worrying

Thanks