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Hi -c-,
I don't know if I really do understand what you want/need to do with a
looper, but let me put it this way: for creating weird sonic textures, the
Repeater might not be the best thing you could get. If in your synth-only
setup, polyphonic loops can be covered by the pattern sequencers of your
other devices, a Repeater with its great feature of realtime
pitch-shift/time compression and of four separate tracks is of little use.
I
do not have a EDP myself, so my scope on its functions vs a Repeater is
somewhat limited to what I heard from other people; I do however know that
I
do lots of stuff with the Repeater which are impossible both with a Line6
EchoPro and an EDP - mainly for the fourtrack stuff, which I do use all the
time, and which involves recording effected synth parts and syncing them to
a running pattern sequencer (not the other way round, though, for reasons
amply covered onlist in recent times). If I would be faced with the
decision
to either get an EDP or a Repeater for use in a synth-only setup with lots
of pattern sequencers which allow for great realtime work, I'd most
probably
opt for the EDP. And I still make heavy use of my DL4, though not as a
looper, but for its delay effects (although I started to replicate some of
its effects using a FireworX).
I use the Repeater mostly for "acoustic" instruments, so I do not really
know if my heavy use of it would apply to your use - most of my synth
basses
are actually Vbasses, looped with a repeater. I couldn't do most of the
music I play today without a Repeater - on the other hand, I did great
stuff
back when my only loopers were a DL4 and a Headrush...
Why have both (or three of them): The Repeater can do things the Echoplex
can't do, and even four Echoplexes can't do. The EDP can do things the
Repeater can't do. The DL4 (or EchoPro) can't to anything the EDP or
Repeater can't do loopwise, and it can't do a lot of things which are
regarded a must for a "serious" looper (like MIDI-syncing, variable
feedback,...) - but it is a great tool for its delay models, and the looper
is a nice addition to the repertoire
Rainer
(sorry for being not much of a help)
Rainer Straschill
Moinlabs GFX and Soundworks - www.moinlabs.de
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catilyne [mailto:catilyne@icicle.net]
> Sent: Sonntag, 25. August 2002 23:21
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Repeater spotted for sale
>
>
> At 10:02 AM 8/25/2002 -0700, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> >Sylvan Music in Santa Cruz.
> >
> >They want $629, however, which puts it within spitting
> distance of yet
> >another Echoplex and is now twice the price of a Line6 Echo Pro.
> >
> >People keep saying that one should have both. Why?
>
> Yep, I'm in a similar circumstance. I've got a line on a
> Repeater but I'm
> really torn as to whether to follow through on it. (I'd
> *really* like to
> thank Mark Sottilaro for his insightful comments, by the way.)
>
> I don't consider myself a looper in the strictest sense of
> the word. I'm
> trying to put together a setup (all synthesizers, no acoustic
> instruments)
> that will allow me to put Frippertronics-type space ambience
> over the top
> of techno breakbeats. For that reason, I was originally
> thinking about
> getting an Echo Pro, then possibly moving up to an EDP later
> if I really
> got into looping.
>
> But now I'm faced with the dilemma regarding the Repeater of
> "get it now or
> forever hold your peace". <*sigh*>
>
> So, for those of you with Repeaters doing electronica, I'd
> just like to
> ask: Is it really 'all that', or am I just getting caught up
> with gearlust
> and engaging in overkill...?
>
> TIA!!!
>
> -c-
>
> _____
> "i want to reach my hand into the dark and *feel* what reaches back"
> -recoil
>
>