Re: Drum loops...how do you do it?

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 11:36 AM 7/14/2003, Dan Soltzberg wrote:

>Midi syncing drum box to EDP, etc. works great if you're starting your 
>piece with the drums. Then you can slave your looper to the drum box's 
>midi clock. But if you're going to start a piece by playing your guitar, 
>xylophone, etc, then it's kind of tricky because you don't have a tempo 
>to 
>play to, unless you listen to your drum beat in headphones before you 
>bring it up in the house mix.

You can use the new TempoSelect function in the LoopIV upgrade and in the 
new EDP+. Then the Echoplex can always be the clock master, and you can 
choose to have it send out clock before you have actually recorded your 
loop. In this way you can choose to have the sequencer start first, record 
the loop first, or record the loop simultaneously with the sequencer 
starting. You could have a click track play from this clock output as a 
guide before you recorded your loop, or have the click built into the 
beginning of a drum sequence but only directed to your monitor or 
headphones.

kim


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