Need some help figuring out what I need

[ErrorFlynn]

Well hello there!

Few weeks ago I bought a digitech bass synth pedal. I bought it mostly just to fool around with it, but then a thought occured to me: what if I buy a dual loop pedal and set the synth to one loop and everything else in other.
So what I'm looking for with this is to be able to hit a note with the synth loop on and leave it to ring and then hit the other loop with other effects and play something on top of the ringing synth sound. Know what I mean.
So the real question is how do I get the synth sound to stay on while switching the loop? Do I need some sort of a sustainer there or what?

If You have any other ideas hoe to get this working I'm more than happy to hear them!

[EskimoBassist]

If you want to loop and repeat a short phrase you could use any manner of Phrase samplers/loopers such as the Boss RC or the Digitech Jamman series.

If it's a pure note which you want to play over, check out the EHX Freeze.

[bassofthe]

My suggestion would be to run an EHX Freeze into the BSW. For the loop, I think you would need something custom to leave the outputs of both loops on while switching only between the inputs.

OTOH, the best solution here would probably be to get a pedal synth, like a Moog Taurus, and use that for the sustained synth notes. Then you wouldn't need to do any pedalboard tapdancing.

[ErrorFlynn]

I have been thinking about the EHX freeze in the same loop with BSW. For now it seems the solution to go with, eaven though it means a bit tap dancing on pedals.
When it comes to Moog Taurus... man, I've been wanting one ever since I fell in love with Mastodon unfortunately it falls "litle" over my budget at least for now...

[bassofthe]

A set of pedal keys and a DSI Mopho would work fine as a poor man's Taurus.

[alec]

Originally Posted by ErrorFlynn

So what I'm looking for with this is to be able to hit a note with the synth loop on and leave it to ring and then hit the other loop with other effects and play something on top of the ringing synth sound. Know what I mean.
So the real question is how do I get the synth sound to stay on while switching the loop? Do I need some sort of a sustainer there or what?

I got a Freeze this morning, so I played around with it, and I think it would work. You'd split the signal with a switchable ABY and have one channel (A) going Freeze > BSW and B doing whatever you like then recombine it or send the channels to different amps. Switch to input A (B is muted), play a note and Freeze it in Latch mode. From there the BSW will sweep through, and since there's a continuous note being fed to it, you only have to tap the strings to start the sweep again if you want to.
Then switch to the input of B (so A gets no input but keeps outputting) and do your thing on that. Then if you switch to A without touching the Freeze, you just have to tap a string to start the sweep again. Unless you want to change pitch, then play the note and reFreeze.

The problem with a blender like the LS-2 is that you'd mute the output of either channel.