Re: Live Performance Hardware Looping Equipment Question - Need Help

["sserendipity" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

>I guess I would rather use dedicated hardware for this job
> though, if I could find something that would do it.

The yamaha RM1x works exactly like that. It also imports standard midi 
files
very easily.

bIz
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Live Performance Hardware Looping Equipment Question - Need
Help


> Michael-
>
>     Man, I wish Sonar worked like that.  I'm using a sequencer called
"MIDI
> Maestro" (www.midimaestro.com) to do what you're talking about live
(having
> certain sections in the song that loop until I send the sequence a 
>message
> to continue).  I guess I would rather use dedicated hardware for this job
> though, if I could find something that would do it.  It would be nice if
the
> medium I compose in -- Sonar -- was capable of this, as I will be taking
my
> PC out anyway to use as a standalone Kontakt sampler.  It's kind of
> ridiculous that it's not.  Oh well.  Maybe in a future release.  Anyway, 
>I
> have a great deal of interest in this thread, because I'm looking for the
> same thing.  Not the MPC style of breaking the song into sections and
> triggering them from pads.  Just one long MIDI file that has pointers in
it
> for looped parts.
>
>     I have thought about using a sampler like Bill suggested on LD.  An
Akai
> S6000 can have 256MB of memory, which means about 25 minutes worth of
stereo
> audio.  BUT, if you want to have one instrument that you can dynamically
> mute and/or effect, then you would have to have it as a seperate sample,
so
> your time would go down to 12.5 minutes.  If you want several instruments
> (samples) to be able to control independently, then your sample time
> continues to be reduced.  I don't think this is the answer for what it is
we
> both seem to want.
>
> -Jesse
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Clark" <mcl451@airmail.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Live Performance Hardware Looping Equipment Question - Need
> Help
>
>
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > Thanks.  I am hoping to find a unit that works sort of like cubase in a
> > hardware form:  the song is completely composed and recorded with loop
> > points positioned in parts of the song.  To loop a part, i simply tell
the
> > unit to loop that part.  When i tell the unit to stop looping, the song
> > then continues - as it would in cubase or another software program.
> >
> > I'm very accustomed to working with a variety of software programs.
Maybe
> > the hardware world - for this type of application - hasn't really 
>caught
> > up, or functions very differently.
> >
> > A sampler may work, but some of the songs are 20 minutes long.  May be 
>a
> > RAM issue with the sampler.
> >
> > I do know that Cirque du Soliel works this way, but the samples are
mainly
> > sort intros, rather than long songs.
> >
> > Michael
>
>