Re: dancing loops

[RandomLFO@aol.com]

     I use the Roland Handsonic quite a bit in dance classes. It does some wonderful things, and some cheesy things. I guess cheesy can be useful too. Although I have not been using the sequencer in it for classes, I can see how it may be able to be utilized. You can assign sequences to be triggered by pads. You can control the tempo either by the dial, or one of the ribbon controllers. Although you can use the DBeam for this as well, you would have to hold your hand there. I don't think that there is any other way to hold the DBeam's value. 
     Marc

In a message dated 9/26/2002 5:21:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sine@zerocrossing.net writes:


> The Roland family of drum machines are really good in terms of having realtime
> ways to tweak tempo.  Either via "Tap", slider or even the IR "D" beam
> controller.  These are totally useful when trying to synch to recordings or
> live musicians.  They also have a wide complement of synth sounds and samples
> making them much more than a drum machine.
>
> Mark Sottilaro
>
> Matthias Grob wrote:
>
> >
> > I hate drum machines, personally, but from all the demands by the
> > instructors for quickly changing times and speeds it seems to me that
> > for a begginner at least, the easiest would be to take a notebook
> > along with a library of drum patterns that can be mounted as the
> > instructor explains what he wants and then freely adapted as he
> > changes his mind.