Re: looping in Thessaloniki

[Dan Trueman <dan@silvertone.Princeton.EDU>]

Comments about LiSa? (Curtis doesn't actually use it (yet) so I will 
respond). I have found LiSa to be very useful, flexible and stable. 
Though it appears awkward to use and program at first it is quite 
simple. It allows you to divide up your available RAM into sample 
regions and play them back in a bunch of ways. It has some simple 
filtering that can be fun, and a pattern editor which allows you to 
create your own playback algorithms. It also juggles voices very well, 
discarding old ones as it runs out of CPU. It has never crashed or 
even fuzzed out on me.

I have a couple gripes. It has a wonderful set of envelopes for 
playing back notes, but it can't envelope on record. This is a problem 
for loopers; if you choose the back and forth playback mode (where it 
plays the sample backwards and forwards as long as the note is on) and 
there is a click on either end of the sound that you recorded, you'll 
hear the click loud and clear as it cycles around. I hate clicks. I've 
worked around it, but it's a pain. 

Also, it has this great Scrub playback feature where you can scrub 
through a soundfile with a control change message. Unfortunately, it 
doesn't smooth out the control change messages, so it ends up being a 
lumpy scrub with discrete and audible pitch changes. Still pretty cool 
though...

I highly recommend it, and it's only $200.

By the way, our gig went very well!

Dan Trueman


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"Oy, Fungus!"
Dan Trueman
Music Department
Princeton University
http://www.music.princeton.edu/~dan
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Morgan Fisher wrote:

> Curtis Bahn wrote:
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> >Jam man and echoplex DP driven by interactive MAX algorithms
> >LiSa by STEIM
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> Aha - LiSa! I just got hold of a demo (for those who don't know, this
> program turns your Mac into a sampler) but haven't had time to try it 
>yet.
> Do have any comments about LiSa? Is it complex to use compared to regular
> samplers such as the Akai, etc? Any special features worth mentioning?
> 
> Hope your performance is a great success, Curtis!
> 
> Morgan Fisher
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> >From Morgan Fisher, Tokyo
> Email address:  morgan@gol.com
> Second email address:  morgan_fisher@ringo.net
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