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Yes, pretty neat atmosphere machine. I think you're probably right about people not being able to figure out what to do with it - Musician's Friend is blowing them out already for $499! There's also an audio input for "vocoderizing" vocals or processing yer geetar :) My hunch is that the Fizmo could make up it's mind about whether it wanted to be a Virtual Analog or a Groove Box. The F-I-Z... buttons you mentioned are assignable to parameters for real-time tweaking. The FIZMO has instant 'classic' weirdo-machine written all over it. It's such a piece of crap with great potential. I'm giving it another look. I want to try feeding the output of the machine into audio-input to see what happens...heh heh heh. - Larry -----Original Message----- From: Todd Madson <crash@waste.org> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 11:58 PM Subject: Stuff >HE MADE ME CRY BECAUSE HE MOCKED MY GUITAR PLAYING LOUDLY TO FRIENDS. > >Nevermind. Neanderthal behavior mode off. > >I tried an instrument tonight that I think all of you should try out >because it gave me the same reaction I had when I tried the Vortex >in years past. > >I think it would make a great textural looping instrument. > >I'm primarily a guitarist, but I also play synths and I tried a synth >that was very strange this afternoon, an Ensoniq Fizmo. > >Damn weirdo device. I couldn't for the life of me make it act normal >at all. No conventional strings, brasses, or moog sounds here. No >way. > > Instead, giant shimmering sheets of molten metal rippling in the >solar wind, harpsichords made out of lead and cadmium, and the sound of >glass oozing through an ionospheric medium. I mean, what the hell were >they thinking? Anyone try using one in a top40 band would be shot on >sight. Anyone looking for oozing, fluidic, metallic, shimmering >atmospheres has at least gotta check it out. Kind of like a PPG Wave >on hallucinogens. > >The funniest thing was these knobs corresponding to the name of the >device, an f knob, an I knob, a z knob, and so on. And it was like it >was designed to mess with my head as one knob would change the PITCH >on certain patches and others would boost the ultra-piercing highs this >thing was capable of and still others did stuff that sounded like it >was ring modulating some notes in a patch (but not others), and I'm >not sure I can describe the other sounds but it would really be cool >looped thru a vortex into some other looping processor. > >I'm not fully convinced I figured it out, but I at least made it sound >musical. And it was about $1000. I suspect that someday it will be blown >out in a guitar center sale because nobody could figure it out. It's >really weird. > >Back to your regularly scheduled looping content. > >-t > > > >