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Hi Neil, > *Correct* me, fill in the blanks > and elaborate if you can, just with the first half-minute or so: > > 1. Single 1/4 note played once Yes. > 2. Immediately multiplied into staccato 16ths Yes and no. :() This is Insert=SUS, but because it's used in Stutter mode, it performs multiples *within* a section of a loop, for as long as the Insert button is held down. Notice how the sound of the first note sort of "stretches out"? That's what's happening. I call this SubCycle Multiply. > 3. Becomes 1/4 note again (is that an Undo?) I don't know how that little space of sound got in there; it wad recorded before I had my PMC, so it wasn't Replace. This is why I don't transcribe the stuff: I can never remember what I was doing! > 4. Half-speed: which becomes basic loop (in 'bass' register) Yep. > 5. Harmonics layed on top using overdub? or insert? Definitely Overdubbed in this case. > 6. at 0:40 Reversed, further processing Yes, though I wouldn't use the term "processing," since I don't really think of the EDP as an "effect" per se, and there's nothing in the signal chain other than a guitar and Echoplex. > Up to the :30 mark, this is just a single loop? There's actually no loop switching heard until about 1:45 or so, so yes, everything here is one loop, being constantly redefined and edited using Insert=SUS. You can really hear SubCycle Multiply kick in around :38; every repetition of a sound you hear comes from stepping on the Insert button to stretch segments of the loop out, and the entire loop is one cycle long. I use this technique a lot: throw a bunch of sound at the EDP and then sculpt it after the fact, until it assumes a tangible rhythm or structure. > >>>There is also a "SingleCycle Multiply" available in Stutter mode when > Insertmode=Insert, and causes stuttery repetitions of cycles within a > loop.>>> > > Is that how you get that effect early in this piece? No, there's no SingleCycle Multiply in this one. It's kind of a similar thing to SubCycle Multiply, with a couple of important differences: 1) SingleCycle creates repetitions (or "stutters") within a loop on a cycle-length basis. In other words, if you have a loop of multiple cycles, and you hit Insert (with Insertmode=Insert), then you'll start repeating individual cycles (or if quantize=off, cycle-length repetitions, which aren't necessarily clocked to the strict beginnings and ends of the cycles themselves). 2) There are three things you can do at this point: Let the stutters repeat over and over again, hit Insert a second time to insert each of those stutters into the loop, or hit Undo and have the loop revert back to a normal, un-stuttered state. You can always change Interface Mode within a loop, of course, to build up a mutli-cycle loop in Loop mode, and then go into Stutter mode just for this sort of thing... It makes much more sense when you're sitting in front of an EDP doing all of this, I promise! --Andre LaFosse The Echoplex Analysis Pages: http://www.altruistmusic.com/EDP