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How about mouth or tongue controlled switches? I'm serious, I am not saying this tongue in cheek. bret --- Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org> wrote: > >Here's a challenge. > > > >Has anyone considered a better way for a drummer to use the EDP > footpedal > >controls. > > > >Unless midi is involved, I think all of us use our hi-hat foot to > control the > >record, overdub, etc functions. > > > >My thought is to create switches that would respond to the down beat > of > >various crash cymbals. Double triggering seems to be a possible > problem > >though. > > > >Any thoughts? > > yes, you just called one, maybe its what you meant, I did not quite > understand: > I guess that the main problem with drum operation is that you usually > > want to hit a loop function at the very moment you also want to hit > the cymbal. > And you cannot have a cymbal for every function nor have the function > > happen at every cymbal hit ;-) > So why not preselect the function you want on some pad and then have > it executed at the next cymbal hit? Its similar quantizing, but you > can do it anytime... > Is that it? > > This could be done with the BeatSync input. But it would take a new > quantize mode. > Or you can implement it in MIDI, with Max or so... > -- > > > ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2