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Re: Can we take a second...

Kim Flint wrote :

> At 08:51 AM 8/30/2001, Brett Maraldo wrote:
> >At 07:37 PM 8/29/2001, you wrote:
> >
> >>To recognize Damon and Electrix's achievment - there hasn't been a 
>looper
> >>this exciting built since Kim started the insanity.
> >
> >sure! Damon, Electrix, well done - I think you have succeeded in 
>creating
> >a revolutionary product. Its a looper, but it goes beyond your average
> >looper and implements a feature-set that we loopers have wanted for 
>years:
> >multi-track stereo looping.
>
> actually the thing people have asked for for years is multiple tracks of
> **different lengths**, which Repeater doesn't do. Bob Sellon's mythical
> jamman upgrade does that, as does Emmanuel Perille's DJRND2 and DJRND3.
> Emmanuel also was doing stereo and multi-track, multi-length loopers 
>quite
> a while ago, long before Electrix. He even has patents on it.

Thanks Kim,
Btw, Canada patent should become delivered next year
Will get in touch with Audia french distributor very soon ...

> Eventide boxes have also been used for multi-track and stereo loops for
> quite a while, and people using MSP and kyma have also done these things.
>
> So I would say "evolutionary" perhaps. Revolutionary, no.
>
> >I know guys that shelled out big bucks for two EDP's because they needed
> >stereo looping - this was years ago.
>
> and in that case, you can have different lengths, with a variety of 
>options
> for syncing them to each other or having them unsynchronized, letting
> either one be the clock master for the other, etc., even letting 
>different
> people control them. You don't have those options with any other looper.
>
> >ps. Didn't Fripp start the insanity? (not that he was the first looper 
>but
> >he was the first to bring the technique to our attention)
>
> Maybe for you, but definitely not for me! (I don't think I qualify as
> "starting" any insanity either. Just inciting more of it.)
>
> kim
>
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