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Re: Stuff



Yes, pretty neat atmosphere machine. I think you're probably
right about people not being able to figure out what to do with it -
Musician's Friend is blowing them out already for $499!

There's also an audio input for "vocoderizing" vocals or 
processing yer geetar :)

My hunch is that the Fizmo could make up it's mind about whether 
it wanted to be a Virtual Analog or a Groove Box. The F-I-Z...
buttons you mentioned are assignable to parameters for real-time 
tweaking. The FIZMO has instant 'classic' weirdo-machine written 
all over it. It's such a piece of crap with great potential.

I'm giving it another look. I want to try feeding the output of 
the machine into audio-input to see what happens...heh heh heh.

- Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Madson <crash@waste.org>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:58 PM
Subject: Stuff


>HE MADE ME CRY BECAUSE HE MOCKED MY GUITAR PLAYING LOUDLY TO FRIENDS.
>
>Nevermind.  Neanderthal behavior mode off.
>
>I tried an instrument tonight that I think all of you should try out
>because it gave me the same reaction I had when I tried the Vortex 
>in years past.
>
>I think it would make a great textural looping instrument.
>
>I'm primarily a guitarist, but I also play synths and I tried a synth
>that was very strange this afternoon, an Ensoniq Fizmo.
>
>Damn weirdo device.  I couldn't for the life of me make it act normal
>at all.  No conventional strings, brasses, or moog sounds here.  No
>way. 
>
> Instead, giant shimmering sheets of molten metal rippling in the
>solar wind, harpsichords made out of lead and cadmium, and the sound of
>glass oozing through an ionospheric medium.  I mean, what the hell were
>they thinking?  Anyone try using one in a top40 band would be shot on
>sight.  Anyone looking for oozing, fluidic, metallic, shimmering 
>atmospheres has at least gotta check it out.  Kind of like a PPG Wave
>on hallucinogens.
>
>The funniest thing was these knobs corresponding to the name of the
>device, an f knob, an I knob, a z knob, and so on.  And it was like it
>was designed to mess with my head as one knob would change the PITCH
>on certain patches and others would boost the ultra-piercing highs this
>thing was capable of and still others did stuff that sounded like it
>was ring modulating some notes in a patch (but not others), and I'm
>not sure I can describe the other sounds but it would really be cool
>looped thru a vortex into some other looping processor.
>
>I'm not fully convinced I figured it out, but I at least made it sound
>musical.  And it was about $1000.  I suspect that someday it will be blown
>out in a guitar center sale because nobody could figure it out.  It's 
>really weird.
>
>Back to your regularly scheduled looping content.
>
>-t
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