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Hey I probably cant provide any new illumination on the subject other
than I got one of these used from Wurltzer online about 2 yrs ago for
$25!.My immediate thoughts upon purchasing this were " Great now I can
learn those awesome U.Srinivas licks"and maybe adapt it for stage looping.
It isnt set up to do that(realtime anyway)as I soon discovered.
I think the glitches youre hearing are the nature of the low rez beast.The
dig distortion is pretty loud &clear in most cases nothing seems to help.I
cant recall if It had loud pops at loop points .I didnt have it long either
It became the victim of a midwinter flood disaster in my home.The thing
sells for $699.00
new& has amazing sample time & sounds pretty wicked for some
applications.Good luck & enjoy it.
BTW I did some amazing acoustic looping improvisation last night
with my friend Joee Conroy on cello, pipa & other exotic wacky
instruments.I played my National steel, autoharp, walkie talkies etc.Joee
has played& recorded with some great mprovisors : Henry Kaiser, Davey
Willams, Chadborne, Greg Goodman John Oswald even Frith he brings a great
deal of expierience & skill to the table.Our first acoustic looping
expieriement was quite sucessfull.I ran a mike directly into the EDP and
out to dat using the headphone out into a n amp as a monitor.The looping in
the room was almost inaudible for the most part & we didnt get into any out
of control feedback(next time well monitor thru phones) .The results sound
pretty bizaare in places. We both commented on playback it was hard to tell
it was looped yet the mix was all wet.There were some strange &
unpredictable transistions and the whole thing had a great "remixed"
electronic feel to it particullarly when using multiply& reverse
functions.Im totaly excited about this combination of instruments & the
looping method it has a really odd beautiful quality.I know this has been
discussed before but anyone have any similar expierences tips etc.Keenan
Lawler . Louisville
Maybe some of you can help me shed a light.
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> Yesterday a friend gave me a Slo-Mo Encore as a birthday present.
>Seems he picked it up at a tag sale. it claims to be a "digital slow
>motion processor" made by Ridge Runner (or so the logo suggests).
>
> I've played with it for a little while today and it's pretty cool.
>I was wondering if any of you had any knowledge of or experience with
>these.
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> Basically, it seems to be a riff-a-matic type of thing, designed
>for learning songs by playing along or to transcribe them. It can
>digitally slow down the speed without altering the pitch, but in the
>process gives off some serious digital distortion (which I like). I've
>already recorded some drum loops through this thing to particularly
>interesting effect. It records 8-bit sound at 15.6khz.
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> It's base memory is 1meg, expandable to 8. In base form, as I
>have, it gives just over a minute of sampling time. Expanded fully
>provides 503 seconds!
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> You can then change the speed w/o changing pitch by 1/2 through
>1/6 which does some very bizarre things to the loop. I haven't yet tried
>it w/ actual pre-recorded songs yet. You can set it to alter pitch,
>however, and it has a dial to do so.
>
> It's mono in/out by rca jacks and as a 1/4 instrument plug w/
>volume so you can play along (but not record on the instro jack).
>
> You can't use it as a delay, but even before recording the signal
>through it already sounds digitally distorted to a degree, though this
>increases noticeably after recording.
>
> I can work with its limitations, but one thing I haven't figured
>yet is there's always a glitch at the end of a loop. I've tried editing
>by blocks, but it's always there. I believe you can edit the "frames" it
>uses as blocks down to a smaller size and thereby make the space smaller
>(as far as I can guess), but as to elimiate it all together?
>
> -nick