Re: Modular Looping

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

>Hi,
>
>I am kinda new to the list, but I've visited all your Web sites and I was
>just
>wondering if there are any of you out there who loop synthesizers.
>
>I loop using a Delta Lab Effectron III, Lexicon JamMan, and use a
>Roland SDE-330 Dimensional Space Delay to sweeten the lot, but my
>sources are mostly  EMS VCS-3 and custom modules.  The closest I come
>to guitar looping is using a bass thru a pitch to voltage converter as a
>controller.
>
I loop 6-string bass, a couple of ARP's, an Oberheim SEM, a yamaha VL-70
(triggered from a wind controller, I don't play it very well but it sure is
fun) and various other synths through a JamMan, a Vortex and an LXP-5.

Can you give me more info on the pitch-to-voltage converter you use? Is it
a commercial product or custom made. I'd love to have something like that
to trigger the SEM from my bass. I've tried a few pitch to MIDI converters
with not a l;ot of success.

>P.S.  Thank you for turning me on to the Vortex, I have ordered one which
>shall be in my
>rack tomorrow night.

You will love it. It's one of those boxes that gets deeper every time I try
to figure it out. It produces sounds that I've never heard from any other
FX box in 20 years of messing with this stuff.

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Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org  : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
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