General brain-trust question: Does anyone make a "morph" pedal?

[Zaphod B. Goode]

Something I've been Jonesin' for for years is... something I don't know whether it even exists: A pedal that would allow you to morph between two entirely different guitar voicings - like as gradually as your foot is able to, rather than a hard, instantaneous A-B-Y switch.

The point-source for this lunatic idea is a moment early in Mr. Fripp's "Space Groove II" from the ProjeKct Two "Space Groove" disc. He's jamming along in a normal, thick guitar voicing, and then he holds a long note and it just changes - into a full-blown Frippertronics voicing. Here's the clip, and the morph I'm talking about happens between 1:55 and 2:05 in this particular YT posting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7MjTaeb9Y

I'm thinking this was likely done in the studio, but it got me thinking: What if I could take a pedal - like maybe a standard pan pedal? - and use it to just glide between two different voicings (i.e., effects loops,) seamlessly. Would a pan pedal work for this? Has anyone ever heard of a pedal that allows this?

If nonesuch exists I'm offering this as a Dear Santa to the S-D R&D team as a possible new product. I can't be the only one weird enough to want something like this... ?

Cheers,
ZBG​​​​

 

[ehdwuld]

My GNX3000 pedal will do exactly that

its a multieffects pedal with a rocker pedal

You can assign the pedal to "morph:" between say:

A Fender and a cranked Marshall amp
Or a gained out Carvin and an acoustic simulation

Look at Digitech pedals

I dont know if there is a standalone rocker pedal that will

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Sounds like it's just going into harmonic feedback like an amp that's overdriven hard. My Digitech Frequout pedal can do stuff like this..

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Also a Rocktron Black Cat Moan wah pedal (w/ the "moan" on) can do something similar...

 

[Mincer]

Welcome to the forum!

As a big Fripp fan, I think what he is doing here is pretty easy to replicate with the right gear. I think he was using a Roland GP-100 for his soloing sounds back then. His solo is using the Sustainer pickup on his Fernandes, and when it changes, he simply flips a switch on his guitar to go into 'harmonic mode' which is an octave higher. He might also trigger some other filter on the GP-100 at the same time.

 

[Chistopher]

H90 can do it

 

[maug2122]

Something I've been Jonesin' for for years is... something I don't know whether it even exists: A pedal that would allow you to morph between two entirely different guitar voicings - like as gradually as your foot is able to, rather than a hard, instantaneous A-B-Y switch.

The point-source for this lunatic idea is a moment early in Mr. Fripp's "Space Groove II" from the ProjeKct Two "Space Groove" disc. He's jamming along in a normal, thick guitar voicing, and then he holds a long note and it just changes - into a full-blown Frippertronics voicing. Here's the clip, and the morph I'm talking about happens between 1:55 and 2:05 in this particular YT posting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7MjTaeb9Y

I'm thinking this was likely done in the studio, but it got me thinking: What if I could take a pedal - like maybe a standard pan pedal? - and use it to just glide between two different voicings (i.e., effects loops,) seamlessly. Would a pan pedal work for this? Has anyone ever heard of a pedal that allows this?

If nonesuch exists I'm offering this as a Dear Santa to the S-D R&D team as a possible new product. I can't be the only one weird enough to want something like this... ?

Cheers,
ZBG​​​​

I have a older Digitech 2112 SGS rack unit, let's say that I am playing Ozzy's " Can't Kill Rock n Roll", that has both acoustic guitar sims (w/a Behringer AM100 Acoustic Modeler) and a distorted guitar .

My 2112 has a seamless program that morphed distortion guitar sound fading into a new program / patch that is programmable from a few milliseconds to three seconds , fading while the acoustic passage is being played in real time, just like a studio edit.

That 2112 SGS Seamless feature and the two 12ax7 tubes are the reason I sold off my Eleven Rack unit .

 

[Artie]

If you're comfortable around a soldering iron, RunOffGroove's "Splitter-Blender" does that. And for fairly cheap. You just gotta build it.

https://www.runoffgroove.com/splitter-blend.html

 

[maug2122]

Sounds like it's just going into harmonic feedback like an amp that's overdriven hard. My Digitech Frequout pedal can do stuff like this..

Love those "tension" notes !!!!

 

[RanchManSandy]

i have a couple digitech x series pedals that have morph knobs, but maybe not exactly what you're describing. they're hella underrated, nonetheless