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Re: loop deconstruction with Repeater



Scott
 read it again
I think what he does is chop the chord progression and reorder the chunks 
not
pitchifting

Claude

> Mark S. wrote:
> >Ye of little faith.  The Repeater can do this easily
> >by Pitch shifting
> >the signal using a MIDI note number.
> >
> >Mark Sottilaro
> >
> >On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:50  PM, Scott
> >Martin wrote:
> >
> >> Rainer wrote:
> >>> Say you've got a four-bar rock drum
> >>> groove on stereo pair 1+2 (recorded at home,
> >perhaps
> >>> from some original
> >>> source) and a i-iv-VI-V synth chord progression on
> >>> track 3 (recorded at home
> >>> with your Prophet or during performance from one
> of
> >>> your synths). You could
> >>> then reorder the synth chord progression to
> V-iv-i->i
> >>
> >> OK, I'm perfectly willing to believe that I'm just
> a
> >> Repeater OS moron, but HOW, exactly, would one
> >> accomplish this manipulation in real time?  I can
> >> understand how the more advanced editing functions
> >on
> >> the EDP could pull this off, but I can't wrap my
> >brain
> >> around the sequence needed to nail it on the
> >Repeater.
>
> Um, I can understand if the loop was being shifted
> from i-iv-VI-V to, say, v-i-III-II, which pitch shifts
> all 4 chords the same distance, but what Rainer
> specified is a change from i-iv-VI-V to V-iv-i-i.
> Either he mistyped, or he's got some secret editing
> trick that I don't know about.  Even if he pitch
> shifted each chord separately using a MIDI controller,
> you can't use pitch shifting to change a i chord (Em,
> for example) to a V chord (Bmaj).  Other ideas?
>
> Later,
> Scott

>