Old Blood Noise Endeavors Expression Ramper X3 is a syncable, triple expression controller with presets and a very friendly user interface. The pedal is capable of manipulating three expression jacks simultaneously with copious control and brings new sounds out of your old favorites,
A Ramper is a device that creates motion on your expression-enabled devices. You choose point A, point B, and the way it moves between. The pedal allows you to set the shape of the LFO (the thing that determines the expression motion). There are three standard shapes (Triangle, Square and One Shot), and three random variations of those shapes.
The device’s Footswitches set things in motion. A stomp of the footswitches will initiate motion according to the shape and LFO speed you’ve set, and another stomp will stop that motion. By holding a footswitch, you can momentarily stop or start the movement, and then revert to where you were before when that footswitch is let go.
Most of the time, when not in motion, a Ramper will be in the A position, unless using one of the 1 Shot modes or currently setting the B position. To know where your Ramper is, use your ears as an auditory guide and the two LEDs as a visual guide.
This is more than three Rampers in one box, there are a plethora of additional controls to tempo sync multiple Rampers. The SYNC toggles on Rampers II and III determine whether they are synced to Ramper I. You have three optioes: ALL, RATE and OFF. ALL syncs everything about the Ramper, RATE syncs only the rate of the Ramper and OFF deactivates any syncing, so the Ramper can act fully independently.
Ramper I (the green one) has a TAP button. This can be used to tap in the desired LFO speed. The slowest possible tap tempo is 30 BPM, so taps outside of this range will be disregarded. Ramper I also has external control via the jack. It can be used in three different ways, 1) configurable via the internal dipswitch, 2) it can be configured for TRS Expression input, like the ‘Scooch’ Tap Tempo device or 3) for External Tap Tempo using a pulse. There is also a TAP OUT jack on the side with which you can sync external units (like another Expression Ramper X3).
The pedal uses a standard 9V DC power supply and draws 50 milliamps current.
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Expression Ramper X3 demo video
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