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Tom, Sounds great... Let me know when and where to grab the files... :) peace -cpr >-- Original Message -- >Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:03:11 -0400 >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >From: Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> >Subject: RE: repeater format reverse engineering project >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > >> I would love to help you with this project, BUT, I don't own a >repeater... >>:) I'm a software engineer who's been working professionally for 15 years >>(www.musetrap.com/cpr/resume). For the last 7 years I've been primarily >>working in the computer music field (Opcode, Digidesign, Emu, Apple, and >>Euphonix)... I've done a fair amount of reverse engineering of file >formats, >>and if someone could send me files, with descriptions of what is recorded >>in them, then I would be willing to take a stab at it... I suppose if a >>repeater owner in the SF bay area was interested in this enough, they could >>also do a short term loan of the device, so I could do more interactive >>work, but, maybe a quick look at some samples might yield some results... >>Let me know your thoughts... > >I'm keeping this on the list because it might be of general interest! > >This sounds very promising and the best way is to get started at this >and see what we need. > >What I'll do is over the next few days make a set of representative >loops and then upload them to an ftp site somewhere. > >here's what I'll make > > 1. a "completely empty loop" which has, if I can do it, zero seconds of >sound. > 2. a single silent loop with one track with no signal on it. > 3. a single loop with sound on it. > 4. same loop with a "time slip" at the beginning > 5. same loop with a "slip" at the end. > 6. same loop transposed up "one notch" (one click of the dial) > 7. same loop transposed up "one semitone" > 8. same loop "reversed" > 9. same loop at "twice" the tempo >10. a four track loop with different material. > >then we'll see what we get out of it! > > /t >-- > >http://loopNY.com ......................An "open loop": shows every >Saturday! >http://extremeNY.com/submit .......................... submit to the >calendar. >