Re: Akai Heardush , a little frustrated, please help..

[Travis <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

You've got two variables here: your drummer's time and your time 
(actually three--your sense of time when it comes to playing your 
instrument and your sense of time when doing punches on your looper are 
probably two separate things at this point).  Neither one is "perfect" 
in a metronomic sense.  If you're going to have a rhythmic loop, 
EVERYONE has to follow the machine because the machine will never pay 
one bit of attention to the musicians.  So, even if your time is really 
good by human standards, a few milliseconds of slop will quickly add 
up.  The mechanical action of the HR buttons doesn't help anything 
either.

My recommendation would be to get a MIDI syncable looper and have 
everyone play to some form of click track.  If everyone has good 
metronomic time (again, not to be confused with good "groove" time, or 
whatever you want to call it), you'll probably all manage to stay 
together.  A drummer will need a really good set of monitors to pull 
this off though, and a lot of enthusiasm for what many musicians 
dislike, i.e. playing to a click.

Best of luck,

TravisH


On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 05:54 AM,  ESL555@aol.com
  wrote:

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> My drummer has good time. I'm finding that it is difficult to get my 
> loops in perfect time. With the Akai it seems that there is a delay 
> after you click the footswitch so that your loop is always a little 
> behind. I guess I'm going to have to get real good at punching in and 
> out.
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