Re: Nearly there: EDP Individual loop muting?

["Paul Sanders" <paul_sanders@adelphia.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Nearly there: EDP Individual loop muting?


> On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 07:28 AM, Paul Sanders wrote:
>
> >
> >> Just buy the god damn thing already, you know you want it.
> >
> > No, actaully I only need it. Which sucks. Buying things you *want* is
> > fun.Buying things you *need* is a pain in the ass.
>
> Meatwad: I don't want candy, I need candy and when you need something
> it's a responsibility!"

Meatwad?? Wow, Now I really feel at home here, and after only two days
of posting!

>
> You must have a very broad definition of need my friend... kind of like
> mine!  It's not a toy!  IT'S A TOOL!
>
> > In other words, if I can't have shut down a rhythm guitar loop while
> > leaving the percussion loop going, I'm no better off than I am with my
> > $250 Loop Station for my particular application.
>
> I honestly thing you'll love the EDP.  That being said, it might not do
> exactly what you want, but like the other person said, with loop copy
> you can kind of simulate it.  do a track of percussion, copy it to
> another location then add rhythm guitar.  Now go back to the first loop
> and it seems like you just took away the guitar.  I worked this way
> when I had an EDP and it was very easy and elegant. (Mine had a serious
> factory defect and had to be returned) Now with that said, I don't have
> an EDP and I use the 4 track Repeater to do this same thing.

I'm seriously researching the Repeater now too. I think I could do most of
what I need with the EDP, but I have a tendancy to end up wanting to do 
more
stuff than I thought I was setting out to do!

>
> > But, laying awake in bed last night I think I figured out how to do
> > this.
>
> Been there.
>
> I honestly think you could rethink your setup using some sort of
> groovebox or laptop based device running Live or Reason synced to an
> EDP or a Repeater.  Hell, you could get an old used JamMan too.

I picked up the Roland SPD-S today, exchanging the SPD-6. It's going to be
a cool box. It will let me create a percussion loop from the onboard sounds
and resample it to a .wav and play it back at will. I can also sample from
an
external source, so I should be able to have lot's of stuff at my 
fingertips
for live
use, and even just let the SPD-S do the looping of the percussion, provided
I end
up with a looper that will sync to it's MIDI clock, or vice versa.

Paul "Meatwad" Sanders

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> Mark Sottilaro
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