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I'm interested in using the EDP in a rhythm section to layer funk grooves. How easy is it to get everything locked on a nice tight 2 bar segment? Does the new software extend the quantization capabilities? Do I need to be lightning fast with the footpedal or does the loop IV s/w help determine the correct length of the loop? -----Original Message----- From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@loopers-delight.com] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:59 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: RE: Loop IV: Substitute is awesome At 08:20 PM 6/24/2002, Gary Lehmann wrote: >I just plugged the SR-16 in (actually out) and although I haven't listened >yet, it looks like driving drums from the EDP is going to be easier than >ever. It should be. Synchronization improvements are one the most exciting and dramatic new aspects of LoopIV. To me ReAlign is one of the most exciting things about LoopIV. I simply love it. ReAlign makes everything about synchronization 1000 times better and more useful. It is so exciting to me, I mean *nothing* else does this. When you have multiple devices in sync, you can do anything you want to the Echoplex to knock it out of phase with the other guys. Reverse, HalfSpeed, retrigger, etc. Play every kind of rhythmic phase and syncopation game you want. The echoplex keeps track of everything all the way through, maintaining sync and keeping track of all the downbeats. Then when you want to pull it all back together again for that incredible rhythmic tension-release, you just hit ReAlign and slam it back together again. It's beautiful! Plus the ever practical uses. Stop the sequencer to do some editing, then start it up again dead in sync. It works either way, whether the EDP is the clock master or the slave. Plus you have SyncRecord, for everybody who hates being forced into quantization. Now when you are syncing to another source you can start recording at any time. No need to wait for the downbeat if you don't want to. The echoplex will keep track of everything and keep you in sync. You don't even have to wait for a full bar of the other device to play. As soon as sync appears, LoopIV lets you start recording. It keeps track of the time while the Record is going. When you end Record, it rounds off to where it is supposed to and locks in the sync. It is so easy... And you can all thank Claude for it. He is the maniac that insisted and made it real.... >I was pleasantly surprised to find MIDI input echoed as soft thru on >the out jack--is this new? yes, this is the MIDIpipe feature. It really is helpful now for switching configurations between different sync clock masters, or different stereo vs multitrack setups. You don't have to go rewire your midi connections all the time. >Is there any way to toggle it? no, but is is not a dumb merge function. It has intelligence to pipe things that are supposed to get piped and not pipe things that are not. So for example you don't end up with double clocks or such. the idea was that you should be able to plug in your rack and forget about it. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com