An interesting idea prompted by a new EHX product

[Mark Hammer]

The EHX Slammi uses their accelerometer-based foot treadle platform to control a polyphonic pitch shifter. http://www.ehx.com/blog/ehx-introduces-the-slammi

One of the modes demoed in the Youtube is foot-controlled chorus.  That is, the foot-control over the pitch shift is restricted to a couple of cents, such that the user wiggles their foot and makes things go slightly flat or sharp, yielding a chorus effect.

All of that is done in the digital domain, but I wonder if there is any merit in harnessing a plain vanilla V/BL/MN3207 to a foot-controlled variable clock so that the sharp-and-flat thing is modulated by one's foot rather than just an LFO?

Any thoughts?

[Scruffie]

No different from turning a chorus/flanger/delay delay time pot, it's an interesting enough sound, not something i'd want to keep up for an entire intro/song though.

Envelope controlled got boring fast for me too.

The A/DA expression controls the delay doesn't it? (Never bothered with the expression) turn the regen down and slow down the clock?

[Mark Hammer]

Yeah, I guess one would want an LFO option in there too.  There are better things to occupy one's ankle with than ONLY a chorus effect.

[mac]

I wonder if there is an apk at google play that let me use my LG phone built in accelerometer as a wah wah 

mac

[FiveseveN]

Here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.charlieroberts.Control&hl=en (with "MIDI coming soon").
This looks like another option: http://www.humatic.de/htools/touchdaw/
Here's a guy with some custom hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4ag6Ukog8
Just what I found after a quick search. But we digress 
Yesteryear it was multitouch tables, now it's accelerometers, soon we'll have virtual pedalboard interfaces through augmented reality glasses. And/or maybe accelerometers and/or position trackers on our shoes. I'd keep my options open before jumping on a bandwagon.

[gritz]

Here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.charlieroberts.Control&hl=en (with "MIDI coming soon").
This looks like another option: http://www.humatic.de/htools/touchdaw/
Here's a guy with some custom hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4ag6Ukog8
Just what I found after a quick search. But we digress  
Yesteryear it was multitouch tables, now it's accelerometers, soon we'll have virtual pedalboard interfaces through augmented reality glasses. And/or maybe accelerometers and/or position trackers on our shoes. I'd keep my options open before jumping on a bandwagon.

I get the feeling that in ten (or even a hundred) years time a lot of guitarists will still be afraid of anything more "futuristic" than a two transistor fuzz and will be engaged in a fight to the death over the last remaining stocks of 3pdt footswitches, tropical fish capacitors and germanium transistors that first failed validation in the 1960's but somehow never got thrown away.  

It's good to see new ideas and techniques - even dumb ones! Google glass + accelerometers in my cuban heels + a bit of DSP sounds full of win to me.

[Mark Hammer]

I wonder if there is an apk at google play that let me use my LG phone built in accelerometer as a wah wah 

mac

I don't know if you ever saw Frank Zappa in his heyday, but you could usually tell how much fun he was having by how he bobbed his head from side to side as he worked the wah.  Had he lived (and it will be 20 years since his passing this Dec. 4), he could have worn a headset with accelerometers so that he could bob his head and not have to work the wah.