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Re: Re: cool Repeater Trick vs LP-1 tricks>scramble redux



On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, mark francombe wrote:
> Wel, no... Edp doesnt scramble, but audibly, one could say the effect
> sounds like a standard quantise subtitute. Of course then you have to
> build the chunks yourself,
Though the two have that square wave slicing sound,  what I like about 
Scramble is
that you can constantly randomize your loops.

It suddenly occurred to me that if you just set up these two commands in 
a row, that
you can constantly keep randomizing what your little sub pulse goodies 
will sound like.

First,  take a scramble your track:   The use simple command:

1 =  Fast Scamble (this takes your original scrambled track out of 
scramble)
2 =  Fast Scramble (rescrambles with a new randomization)............

By then using Bounce you can then listen to what is spit out and 
constrain it to what ever time signature
you'd like by truncating the bounce when you achieve the sub pulse you 
want and the original track
turns itself off.

If your timing is really accurate (and there is no better way to improve 
timing than to practice constraining a
fast or medium scramble to a new time signature)  then by applying the 
exact Q-quantization for using
Q-replace you can then 'customize' your new ostinato rhythm.

A cool thing to do it is to cut silence slices into your loop so you can 
get more of an 'African' paradigm to
your ostinato loop.

I was over at Bill's last night and he was doing wicked stuff by 
constantly introducing new material (constrained with
digital delays,  feedback reduction,  Q-replace)    It was really 
beautiful where he's taking this stuff.

Also, if you think about it,    if you Fast Scramble your track, then 
you have a whole series of wav forms whose volumes
cut abruptly at the boundary of each Scrambled 'slice'.     If you are 
not constraining Scramble to a time signature, then
every time you do a Q- replace you are introducing new slices that are 
NOT the same size.........and Scrambling them.

This causes a lot of jittery/glitchy goodness in your loop and yet, if 
you constrain what you are playing to fairly fundamental
harmonic choices,  you have a really nice 'bed' that you can play 
langorously over.

This approximates the Indonesian "Kotekan" paradigm of rhythm creation, 
where every single sub pulse is played in such a way
that the soloist just soars over the 'percolating' texture of the 
manipulated loop.

Q-replace some silences and you can come up with some cool 
"Afro-centric" syncopations

ps   by the way,  we've got some cool new features planned for adding to 
the LP-1 that should give it some other
unique qualities (as Mark Hamburg mentioned that he thought Scramble was 
a defining technique that separates the
LP-1 from other units).

rick walker