4ms DIY Looping Delay Kit

This is the DIY-kit! The 4ms Looping Delay might look like the little sister of the popular DLD module, but doesn’t fail to deliver, coming up with a variety of functions.

Attention! The do-it-yourself kit includes all the parts necessary to build a Looping Delay Kit. This is a intermediate-level kit, and requires some soldering experience and basic hand tools (small screwdriver, soldering iron, etc.). We unfortunately cannot assist with assembling/soldering the kit and take no responsibility if the kit does not work after self-assembly.

Build Guide

A whopping 87 seconds of delay time are possible with the Looping Delay (LD) from the modular experts 4ms from Portland in Oregon. This allows not only standard delay effects, but also Karplus-Strong synthesis (try a clocksignal in audio speed) and sound-on-sound orgies. The pitch doesn't change when the delay time is switched, but gently slides into the new temporal context via crossfade. Temporal control is possible in various ways, a large array of patch points allows a high degree of flexibility. Among other things, the internally or externally controllable clock can be multiplied or divided via the Time parameter; while the knob sets the divider factor, the corresponding switch allows you to set a range from an eighth note up to 32 beats, all CV-controllable, of course. The feedback reaches a whopping 110% and is extensively CV-controllable. It can even be processed externally with the send-return function if necessary before being sent back to the module.
In the hold mode activated by the hold button (who would have thought it!), the piece of audio information currently in the memory can be looped infinitely and then read out with the feedback control as a partial range, with the reverse function the whole thing also functions in reverse.

Features:

• Single channel version of the 4ms DLD
• Up to 87 seconds delay time
• digital feedback up to 110%
• Besides "ordinary" delays also Karplus-Strong synthesis and sound-on-sound effects possible
• In/Output
• send/return path to control the delay flag
• CV inputs for time, feedback, delay feed, mix,
• Hold and Reverse buttons
• Clock-Out/Loop-Clock-Out
• Delay time adjustable via ping button or external source