Re: What shall I buy? EDP or Looperlative?

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

If I were you I would gravitate towards the LP1 because I already know
the EDP and I would hope for some new creative views being brought in
by the LP1. In my view it is better to have two units of different
functionality than having two identical (but maybe this is not fully
true regarding the EDP since its well known versatility). This is one
reason I personally gravitated towards software, but we're not going
to talk about that now.

However, for me (not necessarily applying to you)  this looper
comparison is much a question about the ability to cue loops. The EDP
does this with the function "Moore Loops" but the LP1 doesn't do it at
all. This pretty much took the LP1 out from my horizon when I was
looking into looping boxes. But that's just me; I want to do song
oriented looping by jumping between many loops, but in your mail you
said that you do song oriented looping by creating parallel loops -
and then I guess you mute one and open another to go from verse to
chorus and things alike (which would be too complicated for me). So in
this matter the LP1 would work well for you.

If I should go back to using dedicated boxes today I would use them
together with a laptop that runs a simple MIDI sequencer, Live or
Numerology. And I would set up MIDI sequences of MIDI commands for the
loopers. Then I would assign my physical MIDI pedal to launch
different of those "command chains". In fact I had that setup long ago
with an EDP, a Repeater and an Alesis MMT8 (later replaced by a
PowerBook). Uuhhh...  scary thought... must say I prefer my new way of
doing it all inside one box, by different software. 'nuff said..

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