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RE: EDP switches for drummers

How about battery-powered switches?  Just to avoid RAGE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret [mailto:echoplex@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:06 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: EDP switches for drummers


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
> 


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