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I did a test to see how well the Repeater took the prerecorded dance loops of my Roland MC-307 and did a beat detect. A lot of the beats had heavy shuffle action going on, so I was amazed to find the Repeater seemed to track the tempo almost perfectly! As good as MIDI synch. I don't use it this way, but I imagine it would be perfect if I were playing with a DJ. Mark Kim Flint wrote: > 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