As I am spending more and more time with the wonderful duo (Ribbons and Ghosts), and discover new depths of power these pedals offer, I find a few small things that, to me, would make these pedals even better (which, I agree, seems almost impossible - they’re already so good!))
One of those little things is some more options for the Tape Stop touch mode.
By nature of this mode, you most often want it full-wet, no matter how other Ribbons effects and modes are mixed in. However, at present Ribbons’ dry-wet control is global, and affects all aspects of the pedal, including the Tape Stop mode.
Would it be possible to include an option in future FW updates, to switch Tape Stop mode only to “Full Wet” mode, regardless of the global wet-dry mix? So that the “Stop” and “Resume” effects always apply to all of the audio present at the Ribbons’ output?
Tape Stop is such a funny mode to play with, even without bringing the “tape” to a complete stop. However, I can’t perform relatively fast “start-stop” momentary activations, so that the tape does not come to a complete stop, but gets “resumed” back to normal speed.
This is exactly what you describe in the manual, and it sort of works with VERY slow ramp speeds. But with faster ramp speeds, when you press and release the touch footswitch a bit too fast, Ribbons thinks it’s just a latching aciton, and latches it.
Would it be possible to add a MIDI-selectable option to never latch the Touch footswitch either for this specific mode, or just globally? So that no matter how little time you keep the FSW held down, it will stay in momentary mode?
Technically, yes, that’s possible. But adding small MIDI-selectable behaviors like this creates more work behind the scenes than it might appear. We have to balance implementation time, testing, documentation updates, and long-term support against how broadly useful a feature will be.
This feels like a pretty specific use case and it’s probably not something we’d prioritize highly.
Also technically possible, but similar story here: it would take a non-trivial amount of work.
If you’re after that behavior, a practical solution would be to use an external MIDI controller, since then there is no “latching” or “momentary” footswitch, it’s just on or off. So you can get as precise as you want without requiring additional firmware options.
Jaak, thank you, and I totally understant that this could be too much work for too niche of a case.
Now, what you said about the MIDI controller is very interesting. I haven’t thought about it, but it can do the trick, I can program my MIDI controller to send Touch FSW On command on Press and Touch FSW Off command on release, and there will be no “latching risk” involved, even if the time between On and Off commands is very short!