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Re: Drifting loops
Title: Re: Drifting loops
A good trick for slowing down the drift is to set the DL4 to half-time, so that you get a longer possible loop time. then, instead of doing a 4-bar loop, do an 8 or 16-bar loop. e.g., just play the 4-bar phrase a couple of times and record that as your loop. a longer loop takes longer to drift out of "sync."
just before the loop gets too out of sync for you, re-trigger it, and relax for another 40 seconds.
For me, I finally decided that the DL4 is a particular kind of instrument not to really be used for loops that have to be tightly synced, and I got an EDP that I midi-clock to my drum machine (Korg ES-1-- a very cool sampling drum machine). I use the EDP for basslines and attacks that I want to stay in sync with the drum machine, and use the DL4 for textures, etc.
I have grown to love the way the drift of the DL4 produces overlays that have their own almost mystical rhythmic logic.
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on 1/5/03 10:57 PM, Mark Hamburg at mark_hamburg@baymoon.com wrote:
I will add, however, that though I'm not a DL4 user, I've heard reports that
people do manage to get excellent sync by retriggering the loop manually (or
rather pedally). Since I don't have one, I can't tell you how. Is there a
switch that means "Play"? Of course, that means you've got to keep your feet
busy doing yet one more thing.
I wonder whether one could make something similar work over MIDI with the
Echo Pro by sending the appropriate MIDI messages to it...
Mark
P.S. I'd have been much more interested in the Pro modelers if I could have
bought a 4 button footswitch for say $60 that would have given me the same
behavior as the floor pedals.
