Re: New Ideas for Loop-boxes: Wishes and Dreams Department.

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias Grob)]

David Kirkdorffer did a major contribution:

>Kim & Loop-Folk

:-)  here they would say Loop-tribe

>Picking up on the idea -- how about adding a special page to the
>LOOPERS-DELIGHT Web-page capturing these ideas in an ongoing basis?

Wow, Loopist dreams.
Engineers just have to select some items to bring out new technology.
Fascinating.

>1.  Visual reference points for where one is in a loop.
>        a) a waveshape would be an excelent visual representation
>        b) a kind of LCD "time-o-meter" spining one revolution/loop
>(like divers' watches with all those fancy dials)

you want a computer, really... or would you really look at such design in a
one unit LCD? Or did you think of a 2 unit high machine? nono!

>- sometimes it can be quite difficult to know where one is in a long
>loop.
>- it would help time placement of "new additions" and multiples...and
>general "situational -- "where am I?"" needs...
>- and maybe with two colours: Red for "that which has RECENTLY been
>added" and Green for "that which has already been added"

Once we go there, we might as well have a separate channel for each 
recording.

>2. Manipulation of end-to-end connect points... Open Loop / Close Loop
>- imagne a 10 second loop.  Then imagine connecting two points within
>that 10 seconds to create a newer shorter loop.
>
>        10 sec. loop:           aa(start)> bb> cc> dd> ee> ff> gg> hh>
>ii> jj> kk(end)>   --->> aa> bb> etc
>        new shorter loop:       dd(newstart)> ee> ff> gg(newend)> -->
>dd> ee> ff> etc.
>
>        and then connecting from  cc> to hh>... etc.
>
>I'm half sure someone will tell me this is already available -- if only
>I knew how....

For the reduction its simply Multiply. After you reduced, its a bit
complicated to go back to the entire, but its possible, either with
Multiply - Undo or with NextMultiply (the reduced version was done with
NextMulti).
Or did I get you wrong?

>4        Tie-ins with all new the hard-disk recording gear
>- may be helpful for loop-"boxes" to stay in the market...
>- to create "an Easy Sample-Builder" capability for studios and midi
>minded folk.

Yes, I am trying to do this for many years, but so far, the idea was  hard
to come through, and the comercial success of looping gear was not
convincing.

>7.      More versatile input sensitivity

In what sense? More sensitive to connect a microphone? The LOOP delay had 
that.

>10.      Leds/lights on the Oberheim foot-controller
>- For live performance, I'm not always close enough to my rack to see
>what's lit-up.  But I am close to the foot controller.

Would be nice really. We thought the user could not afford it...