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Rich wrote: > >From what i saw, it's essentially a sampler, with real time controls >over > pitch, timestretch, and other goodies. Some examples they were showing >at > the show included: > > Taking a drum loop, you can adjust the quantizing in real time, altering > the loop's "groove", as they call it. (Imagine using this on textural, > non-rythmic samples/loops?) Oh yeah! :-) > > > On a vocal phrase, your singer misses the last word of the phrase and >goes > flat. Well, with the VP-9000, you can just adjust the pitch of the last > word up and all is well. > > The VP can assemble multiple samples in different tempos and pitches >into a > coherent piece, in real time. > > Also, intelligent harmonies can be done. > > On board effects. > > Like I said, the demonstrators were just doing their thing by rote, so >the > setup involved with the VP to do what they were demo'ing might be more > complicated than they indicated...but nonetheless, a very interesting >tool. > If there is some looping function, where once you capture the sample, it > would start playing, and then you could do the VP magic in real time. >Yowza! Wow. That would be awsome indeed. Thanks for the info. Robert > > > rich > > At 07:20 PM 2/7/00 +0100, you wrote: > >Rich wrote: > > > >> I agree, this box was very cool, and although it seems to be targeted >at > >> producers and engineers (so they can put a voice to someone with a >butt > >> like Jennifer Lopez and voila!) and remixers (what a surprise, >another toy > >> for remixers)... this box could be an awesome creative tool. > >> > >> kim, did you notice if there were any looping features built into the >box? > >> I couldn't tell. All of the demonstrators were all showing the exact >same > >> features, and using the same samples. Cue card anyone? > > > >Can someone tell me what the VP-9000 is supposed to do? Now that > >I see that word "looper" next to it I'm getting curious. ;-) > > > >Robert > > > >