Can Reich's Piano Phase be emulated with a delay unit?
Assuming a very clean digital delay with a "repeat n times" mode set to one repeat (like "Multi" on the EHX Canyon), mix at 50/50, and time starting at zero ms and increasing from there, could one convincingly emulate Piano Phase? What am I missing here? I don't have any such delay to test that idea.
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Playing with an arpegiator and a looper today and I succeeded in reproducing the same kind of effect as in Piano Phase, as @Tim said.
The arpegiated phrase was not the same than in Piano Phase, but looping a few bars with the arpegiator set at tempo 90 (say) and then looping the same phrase with the arpegiator at tempo 89 on another track of the looper (not synced) is reproducing the same effect. I found the hard part was to stop the second loop correctly as, the first playing and just starting to be out of phase it is hard to follow the beat… Synchronising the MIDI tempo should solve that, as the original piece is very hard to play, you do not want to makes things to easy.
The only problem to reproduce Piano Phase is that small variations sometimes occur (if I remember well), and you cannot do that with a looper…
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