Super ego+ helectro harmonix
Posted: 10 Jun 2025, 10:51
Hello community,
I'm trying to reproduce the behavior of electro harmonix's super ego+ pedal (patch provided here in PJ).
It's a pedal that lets you freeze the signal and play with attack/release, transition type and offers several trigger modes (controlled or by detection).
It also offers a range of effects, which makes it very complete, but I don't bother with this aspect as everything is allowed in terms of routing in HH6.
I achieve very convincing results thanks to two gran samplers running alternately to create transitions between captures.
The result is very close to the original.
However, I've come up against a limit concerning automatic detection. I think electro harmonix are really good at detection, because despite the complexity of a guitar signal
the result is flawless and almost instantaneous.
So here are my two problems:
To get a convincing freeze sound, I have to capture a window of around 500ms, which shifts the restitution by that much. This doesn't pose a problem on slow passages, but if I chain freezes it quickly becomes a limitation.
Added to this is the difficulty of detecting transients in the guitar signal. No matter how hard I try, several peaks are detected when I play a note. It's even more disastrous
I'd be curious to know how Electro harmonix solves this problem.
In the meantime, I'll let you test this prototype version. Don't hesitate to give me feedback and any improvement will be welcome.
Thank you for your feedback.
I'm trying to reproduce the behavior of electro harmonix's super ego+ pedal (patch provided here in PJ).
It's a pedal that lets you freeze the signal and play with attack/release, transition type and offers several trigger modes (controlled or by detection).
It also offers a range of effects, which makes it very complete, but I don't bother with this aspect as everything is allowed in terms of routing in HH6.
I achieve very convincing results thanks to two gran samplers running alternately to create transitions between captures.
The result is very close to the original.
However, I've come up against a limit concerning automatic detection. I think electro harmonix are really good at detection, because despite the complexity of a guitar signal
the result is flawless and almost instantaneous.
So here are my two problems:
To get a convincing freeze sound, I have to capture a window of around 500ms, which shifts the restitution by that much. This doesn't pose a problem on slow passages, but if I chain freezes it quickly becomes a limitation.
Added to this is the difficulty of detecting transients in the guitar signal. No matter how hard I try, several peaks are detected when I play a note. It's even more disastrous
I'd be curious to know how Electro harmonix solves this problem.
In the meantime, I'll let you test this prototype version. Don't hesitate to give me feedback and any improvement will be welcome.
Thank you for your feedback.