Ok perhaps I'm not as picky as the rest of you guy's.
@Harley so yeah it goes wonky if you have to start free styling (same as the boss harmonizing effects I've used before so something I know to avoid). I guess that's where that would never happen to me purely because if I was using such a device as my IPS33 I would only use it with designated passages all carefully worked out to begin with. That's just how I write songs, I don't leave much room for improvising as I want my solos etc. to be recognised as identifiable parts of the song. Boring to some (like the dutch band I toured with thought) but not to me and many other guitarists who play their solos in the same way so they are recognisable hooks in the songs.
So yes there I see (IPS33 ) it's disadvantage, but as I said I would never use it in this capacity.
So an Eventide in this capacity will know what to change the scale to then is what you are saying? I see, so it's clever. Even their early units?
I played with a band in the summer and the guy had one of those eventide pedals. Sounded like shit to me. Perhaps it was his tone though, I dunno. My Boss GT5 harmonizer sounded better lol and it's from 1994.
@ Van sinn
I'm not sure what it is you are after then, I have only recommended a few different pedal units to you on this thread. The Digitech IPS33 was only mentioned by myself as I got one recently.
The Digitech whammy is a pedal as are the boss pedals myself and MJMP have mentioned and I found another unit in my last post which is the Digitech harmony man (another pedal and compact - looks good to me).
Another might be one of those electro harmonix pitch fork. Tiny little thing.
@ Richard too right mate, I love the IPS. I am so pleased with it. I think quality wise it sounds great, as for the interface, so far it has not bothered me at all
perhaps I'm used to complicated boss MFX units which make everything else seem easy to program. I'm going to post my new home rig soon which will feature the unit as a permanent fixture - watch this space. As for the tracking and distortion loop, you are correct, that loop really helps the unit out. I have no experience using it as midi unit though so I can't say I have had that nightmare you had trying to do Highway Star. I can see the IPS only being a studio unit for me. In my live rig which has to b small for travel I'm either sticking with Roland GP100 or Boss GX700, depends.