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At 10:42 PM -0800 12/18/01, todd reynolds wrote: >during one or two visits to California, Richard graciously invited >me to come make some music with him at his place, That was in 1992, I believe. Playing with Todd was great fun. He's a superb musician with a ready talent for electroacoustic improvisation. At the time he had a Boss SE50, and we tried to make some sense out of its system exclusive implementation in order to try controlling parameters real-time. The printed sysex spec was a bit impenetrable, so I called Roland tech support to try to sort it out (dream on!). I talked to a snotty young man who told me that he was "too busy making music" to bother with such things as MIDI sysex. Big mistake. I reported him to a friend of mine who was a senior engineer at Roland. >That's when I bought my first set of Lexicons and Midi-pedals >(midigators, both.) The Mitigator RFC-1 and CFC-4 were current models then. Todd and I visited (the long lamented) Valley Arts Guitar Center to check them out. I had been investigating MIDI foot controllers for Jon Hassell, who had just bought an Eventide H3000. There wasn't much available in those days, and it was down to a choice between the Forte Music Mentor and the Lake Butler MIDI Mitigator RFC-1. The Mentor was a nifty device, with a table top remote and extensive MIDI mapping capabilities, but the RFC-1 was robust and easy to use. Jon had his modified so that the switches were more sensitive (the originals were designed to withstand Leslie West). -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz