Re: Echoplex cycle question (careful exits?)

[david auker <davauk@hevanet.com>]

Bret,

Oops!  I hit "send" before I was done with my message!

> Bret,
> 
> Thanks for the insightful tips on cycles w/in loops!
> 


Anyway...

I'm sure some 'Plexers out there can put your tips to use - 

Exiting at the right time to preserve a graceful "re-entrance" can be
intuitive, and probably the way it's set up offers more freedom anyway?

;-)

David

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Bret wrote:
> 
> David,
> This return behaviour can be used musically.
> 
> With switchquant = off, if you leave the loop 1 midstream on a beat and
> bar boundary (hit nextloop goto loop 2), then you can return to loop 1
> on the beat and bar boundary, where you left off.
> 
> Thus, if you structured loop 1 well, and plan your nextloop timing, you
> can insert loop 2 for a while (a musical digression), and hit nextloop
> on a loop 2 beat/bar boundary (goto loop1 again) and it will make
> musical timing sense, and return the listener to the familiar ending of
> loop 1.
> bret
> 
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> --- david auker <davauk@hevanet.com> wrote:
> > Bret wrote:
> >
> > > I believe a given loop will always begin where it was last left
> > > playing.
> >
> >
> > Is this true?  If so, when returning to play thru a multi-looped
> > progressive composition, one has to be careful to have left each one
> > during its last cycle, otherwise you'll drop in somewhere in the
> > midst
> > of the overal looop?
> >
> > David