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At 09:57 AM 3/6/2002, Dylan DeAnda wrote: >Here's how I use the turntables with the echoplex: hey Dylan, thanks for posting all of that, I found it really interesting! Do you have any recordings available to hear you do it? and is there some place we can go see you do it live? I would really enjoy that. I always thought that live looping would be completely natural for dj's to get into, I'm glad to see that happening more and more. >If any of this DJ/Sampler hoo ha sounds interesting, I would offer up some >of the better names of DJ's who use a sampler with natural proficiency: >DJ Radar (www.djradar.com) He works with 1 turntable, a mixer and an >echoplex and makes the most fantastic scratch based music as a one-man >band. I've heard of dj radar before, and was fascinated. he even plays turntable for an orchestra piece, and developed a system of notation for scratching right? However, I wish he would actually mention the fact that what he uses is not a "customized sampler" with no name, but a "looper" that happens to be an EDP. (I have no idea what he customized on it, probably just audio routing or added phono inputs or something.) A looper is not the same as a sampler and one doesn't really substitute for the other. I suspect he might just be frustrating other dj's who want to try something like him, but do not know what device to get. If they try to get a sampler it won't work and they might give up. Seems to me he could do more to promote the idea among dj's by directing people to the idea of a "looper" instead of a mysterious sampler... >Things I wish I could do with my turntables and echoplex: >I wish I could stutter. I still haven't figured out how to do it with a >single plex. The Mute-Insert combination is what we call ReTrigger. Press Mute. Then press Insert to come out of Mute. This triggers the loop from the beginning to play once and then mute again. It also lets you retrigger, so if you press Insert repeatedly at that point you will get your stutter effect. There is a similar feature using the BeatSync. with the sync parameter set to In, you press Mute and the Multiply. This arms the loop to wait for a trigger on the BeatSync. This can be something like a momentary footswitch, or a pulse output, or even a strong audio pulse. It will trigger and retrigger the loop the same as Mute-Insert does from the front panel. In the next software we are adding some additional midi commands to do retriggers at any time. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com