Re: EDP LED switcheroo

["Laurie Hatch" <lahatch@dnai.com>]

> From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@annihilist.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:16 PM

> I don't think it's anything dramatic. sounds to me like you accidentally
> switched the Loop/Delay parameter to "delay". In that mode, the overdub
> button acts like a hold button on a delay. When it is green, the
> delay line
> is open, and audio at the input goes into the delay and gets added to 
>your
> loop. when you press overdub (or hold now), audio is not input
> anymore, and
> the feedback is set to 100%. It would be easy to confuse this with the
> Overdub function doing a switcheroo if you didn't realize you
> were in delay
> mode.....

Well, that's cool! ...and obviously a parameter I hadn't yet messed with, 
at
least intentionally, that is.  Should come easy now that I'm clearly an
expert at it, in spite of myself! :)  Software glitch is in my head, as
usual, sigh.  Too bad I can't do a hard reset on the brain cells...

But this does bring up another topic.  In my feeble defense, under the
circumstances it would have been relatively easy to get myself into an
unwanted mode and be unaware of it.  I was set up in bright sunlight, and
although the rack was covered with a space blanket to minimize solar soak,
the LCD panel was virtually unreadable due to high ambient light level.  So
if I accidentally hit the wrong button on the fly I could have easily 
missed
the LCD announcement of having screwed up.

Anyway, I thought I'd try to design a photon-absorbent hood for the whole
rack so LCD's on all units would be at least somewhat discernable in bright
light.  Has anyone else worked on this problem?  I did talk with one of the
guests who is knowledgeable about various optical filters, but he wasn't
aware of one that would really be effective in that particular situation.

> >Now I'll always wonder, is green REALLY green?  Is red REALLY
> red?  And what
> >IS the nature of the Universe?  That's some heavy-duty stuff to
> be pondering
> >when merely hitting the Overdub button... :)
>
> wow, one can only imagine what Undo must be like for you. :-)

My sweetie Rem just howled when he read that.  Should I take it personally?
:)  IMHO, Undo is sublime, going Backwards in Time...

So Kim, any thoughts about if the unit's operating temperature is in normal
range, independent of the button-press pilot error?

Thanks very much for the tutorial.  Most informative as usual,

laurie