Loopers with decay or aging

[Swift713]

Hey folks, I’m looking for a looper with decay or as pigtronix calls it “loop aging.” I had a tc electronic ditto x4 but found the decay function unnatural sounding. Overdubs that don’t coincide with the original loop have strange effects on the decay and there were abrupt volume jumps. What I’m looking for is a sound like Frippertronics with gradual decay allowing an evolving soundscape. I can get this effect with my Hardwire DL8 in its longest delay mode but I’d like more than 8 seconds to play with and I like the capacity to set loop time spontaneously.
Does anyone have experience with the pigtronix infinity 2 and its decay feature? Any other suggestions? I wish the ditto x4 was more graceful because the prospect of 2 independent loops without external patching and mixing is quite attractive.

 

[cosmicevan]

Chase Bliss Blooper will do everything you can think of including Frippertronics type stuff. It's really pricey though

 

[Bob_Ross]

Chase Bliss Blooper will do everything you can think of including Frippertronics type stuff.

There's some interesting feedback on the Chase Bliss Audio Settings Facebook group today from a new Blooper owner that seems to suggest it won't quite do "everything you can think of" ...something about how Modifiers can be assigned to recorded material and not new material, but not vice-versa? Not that that impacts whether or not it can do passable Frippertronics emulations, just that it's apparently not the be-all/end-all of loopers, rather a really cool one to have in your arsenal

...along with as many others as possible, of course.

 

[cosmicevan]

There's some interesting feedback on the Chase Bliss Audio Settings Facebook group today from a new Blooper owner that seems to suggest it won't quite do "everything you can think of" ...something about how Modifiers can be assigned to recorded material and not new material, but not vice-versa? Not that that impacts whether or not it can do passable Frippertronics emulations, just that it's apparently not the be-all/end-all of loopers, rather a really cool one to have in your arsenal

...along with as many others as possible, of course.

That’s true, but that functionality is not looper functionality, that is multi effect. Kinda like M o o d. Mood is a delay, no a reverb, no a micro looper, no a feedback machine that inceptions in itself...blooper is not that. Blooper is a looper that lets you “play” your loop.

 

[sunbeast]

The Strymon El Capistan in loop mode is sending your loop through all of the tape delay degradation that you have dialed in on the pedal, so it can be set to degrade in some really cool ways! I don’t think there’s a way to make it not degrade as a result of the built-in tape emulation

 

[Swift713]

Any other suggestions for what is essentially a long delay (>8 sec) with a hold function?