Re: using presets on the echoplex

["Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>]

Keep misusing the Echoplex.  You're probably onto something innovative.  No
shit.

-J


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: using presets on the echoplex


> At 11:28 AM 6/24/2003, Terry Blankenship wrote:
> >I am using an echoplex with loop IV and a PMC10 midi
> >pedal.
> >
> >My question is on using presets in general.
> >
> >I set up everything to start with a program change
> >(which changes the preset in the echoplex to what ever
> >preset I want), then I set the note on and off info.
> >Is this the correct way to be doing this?
>
> you mean every midi command you have programmed for the echoplex starts
> with a program change for the presets? I can't quite understand why you
> would do that. is there some goal you have here? I could see if you had
> some special function you wanted to do, like changing 8ths/cycle at the
> same time as a halfspeed command, as was previously mentioned. But it
seems
> strange to do it for every function all the time.
>
> Most people just set parameters a certain way and leave them. Some people
> have a few different settings they switch between once in a while. that's
> the point of presets. It just simplifies changing a bunch of parameters 
>at
> once. on the occasions when you want to change them, you would send the
> program change for it, and then otherwise go about using the echoplex the
> same way. But I don't think very many people would have a reason to send 
>a
> program change message every time.
>
> kim
>
>
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