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i have a customized mini-Z - You can see it at www.starrlabs.com on the left hand side frame, and there is a bigger picture of it (third photo down) under 'ztars':'ztar,MiniZ, Compact MIDI Guitar controllers.' I use it with a Roland MC-80 hardware sequencer for midi looping with moderately good results. I have synced up the EDP and the MC-80 through midi clock, and just this morning got the HandSonic & the MC-80 synced....I hope this week to get all three singing in unison. One inention I have for the EDP (not yet realized), in addition to looping real-time audio, is to try to use it as something of a temporary loop scratch pad to make up for the limitations in the MC-80's & HandSonic's real-time midi looping capabilities. For example, on the MC-80 you can define a loop region and record up to 16 tracks, switching between tracks, dropping in and out of record mode and are able to mute & unmute tracks. But you can't define a new loop region while in record mode, so i fantasize about dropping the looping audio to the EDP to keep things going, stopping the sequencer & restarting with a different loop region to start a separate 'movement' so to speak. Mapping the ztar pads to control the echoplex is an interesting idea - I had not even thought of that. I had Harvey at Starrlabs put extra pads (along with a few other controllers) on my baby, hoping to create a zen drum / ztar hybrid, but the pads don't quite work as expected/desired for finger drumming, so goodness knows i've got enough extra pads to fiddle with. Harvey had mentioned a while back to me about putting a loop sequencer in the ztar firmware, but i've not heard any updates on that. His newest gizmo in alpha release (based on the same ztar firmware, I believe) is the EventStation he built for Kurzweil which he claims is something like "MAX in a box", with 2 onboard sequencers & some looping capabilities - details are a bit sketchy. stephen --- Michael LaMeyer <mlameyer@rcn.com> wrote: > Nope, although I am planning to do the same thing! > It looks like it shouldn't be too much trouble to > program some of the "drum" pads to send the proper > sysex strings to the echoplex though. That's my > plan anyway. Maybe even try to reduce the number of > foot taps for some functions to one finger whap, if > I can. > > Ordered a Z2 from Harvey, still waiting, but has > anyone already mentioned that there appears to be no > Echoplexes being manufactured right now? I just put > my name on the waiting-list-from-hell at Alto. They > said manufacturing wouldn't rev back up until the > fall. Has anyone else confirmed this? > > Mike > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gary Lehmann > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:46 PM > Subject: Ztar for looping > > > Is anyone on this list using a Starr Labs > controller to generate audio for looping purposes? > I would like to hear from any Ztar owners who > incorporate looping in their performances--go ahead > and contact me at relayonemanband@cts.com. Thanks! > Gary > PS No, I don't have this device myself, but am > interested to see if anyone is controller a looping > device from the unit in addition to using it to > drive a synth. > ===== Stephen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/