Looper's Delight Archive Top (Search)
Date Index
Thread Index
Author Index
Looper's Delight Home
Mailing List Info
[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Wind controller (was Re: Why the Repeater)

I'd be interested in hearing about how you use your WX-5 to control your 
Repeater, Rick.  Are you controlling
pitch?  Using pitchbend?  I'm a windsynth player as well, but have never 
even thought about hooking mine (WX-7) up
to the Repeater as a controller!!

Elby


>
>
> Subject: Why the Repeater?
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:18:10 -0700
> From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>
> Mark Hamburg wrote:
> "People keep saying that one should have both <a repeater and whatever>.
> Why?"
>
> Not that I'm one to talk (because I'm having horrible problems with my 
>midi
> implementation using both a set of behringer midi footpedals and a Yamaha
> WX-5 wind controller simultaneously to control my Repeater in concert), 
>but
> for all the people who want to do the 'one person band concept'  the
> Repeater is the best tool that does this well, in my opinion (flame me 
>not,
> EDP owners..........giggle)
>
> with four separate panable mono channels,the ability to pan them
> independently and excellent fidelity
> this machine can be a multi-instrumentalist's dream.
>
> comparing the EDP and the Repeater is kind of like comparing a pedal 
>steel
> guitar and a state of the art acoustic guitar.  They both have incredible
> similarities but are fundamentally different instruments designed for
> different things.
>
> As an effect, the ability to time stretch loops and retune them without
> changing their length is extraordinarily cool.
>
> As great as the EDP is (and I"m personally in awe of it's capabilities as
> extremely little as I know about them) I think that
> the Repeater is probably better suited for the more conventional
> multi-instrumentalist
> 'band in a box' type musician.
>
> A great artist like Andre LaFosse and Matthias Grob just couldn't do what
> they do
> with a Repeater but it is still an incredible leap forward from the
> DL-4/Loopstation/Boomerang/Jamman paradigm.
>
> Try it............hopefully, you'll like it.
>
> Now, the trouble is finding one.
>
> yours,  Rick