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ACCYNNY www.rustyrobot.com Album "HYPNOS " ----- Original Message ----- From: Andre LaFosse <altruist@altruistmusic.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:24 AM Subject: A Repeater suggestion > Hallo loop list, > > I want to chime in with a point of view here, in light of the current > talk about the lack of a wet/dry mix and its supposedly being a design > flaw. I also want to address a gear-related issue that's been bugging > me for a while. > > First of all, with respect to the wet/dry issue: I believe it was either > Jamie or Damon who told me at the NAMM show back in January that one of > the core concepts for Repeater was to make "a hardware version of ACID." > > Based upon the present feedback (no pun intended) from Repeater owners, > as well as the slant of Electrix's promotion, it seems to me that > Repeater is clearly coming from more of a multi-track recorder point of > view. When was the last time you saw individual track wet/dry mixes on > an ADAT or a reel-to-reel tape recorder? I would suggest that the > absence of same on the Repeater is not a design FLAW -- it's a design > characteristic. > > My perception at this point, which is of course only my opinion, is that > there's now a bit of a letdown present at the realization that the > Repeater is not, in fact, the be-all end-all Uber-looper of doom. Yes, > there are some things you can do with a Repeater that nothing else on > the market can do. There are also some things that have been on the > market for many years with feature sets which the Repeater doesn't seem > to share. > > There's a reason guitar players might have both a Les Paul and a > Stratocaster in their rig, and might run them through either a Fender > Twin or a Marshall stack. Recording engineers carry a variety of > microphones with different strenghts and weaknesses. Drummers will use > different types of kit components depending on the musical situation. > And so on. > > What I'm trying to say is this: Don't just judge any musical instrument > or piece of gear on what it DOESN'T do. Think about what it DOES do as > well. Approach it as an individual thing with its own strengths and > weaknesses, and learn what those are. > > Choose your tool based upon the job you need to do. > > When I use an EDP, my creative process is being shaped as a result of a > specific design architecture and philosophy. Like any good instrument, > it's the product of a particular creative idea that's followed a > specific arc to be brought to fruition. I'm sure the Repeater is the > same way, and I'm sure that each unit will lead a user down certain > paths that the other one isn't well equipped to travel. > > With all due respect to all the new Repeater owners, and without wanting > to offend anyone, I think it's a bit ridiculous that people are asking > for new design features in the unit mere days after having recieved it > -- especially after having waited a year for the current model to take > shape as an actual, workable, stable, real-world unit. > > It's taken years for a vocabulary of EDP techniques and approaches to > build up. That's the way it should be, as it is with any instrument. > Don't expect to master something like a Repeater in a few days -- and > don't expect it to be the final word in real-time looping. > > Learn your instrument. Get to know it as a creative tool. And don't > blame the instrument if it turns out that it wasn't what you thought it > was going to be, you know? > > Anyway... > > --Andre LaFosse > http://www.altruistmusic.com >