Re: aleatory analogue in the house

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Hey Duncan-

I'd say analogue sequencers are loopers... You just described my whole thang- I use analogue sequencers, midi arpeggiators, midi sequencers and some pre-midi digital things, as well as some custom-built midi/cv/midi processors to make my music. I haven't done an audio loop (tape recorders) for many years (start hurling stones at the heretic now, folks!) though I'm starting to want to drop a midi-syncable audio looper on top of all my sequencer stuff. I need more FX in my studio anyway, and it seems I can never have too many delay-based devices.

Audio looper dept: I just got a Roland Space Echo (201) for cheap from believe it or not, an antique mall. The manager saw me buying some odd ethnic instruments and dragged out the 201 and said here ya go. It needs a toggle switch replaced, but otherwise doesn't seem to be 100% right- not much of a delay signal at the output, it's kind of muffled (I don't know anything about Space Echo units!) but if I put some finger pressure on the tape against the head I get good signal. Are there any Space Echo experts on this list? Can someone point me in the right direction for finding out about this machines quirks & appetites? Thanks in advance.

Best,

Tim Fluharty


In a message dated 7/14/03 5:39:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com writes:

> loopsters- I ask again, in the name of all that's holy and repeatable- does my use of analogue step sequencers count (ahem..) as a looping technique, for the purposes of this list? or do I have to limit my correspondence to matters concerning jam-mans, repeaters and dl4's? (we have two of each in my band).
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>  I'm going to bang on about them anyway though. 
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> only, last night I had an old roland sequencer (model 104) hooked up to a little moog (modified rogue) and running into an mm4 and a dl4. it was totally addictive. I had forgotten how much fun it could be having the delay repeats slightly unsyncopated with the step sequencer- these days it's all midi-locked effects devices and distributed timing data round our house; this was like going back to tape-delay.
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>  I'm in the middle of designing my own analogue step sequencer, because all the ones I've bought have some shortcoming or other- they seem to be intended for users who prefer to prepare sequences rather than alter them in real-time, or they are lacking in some fundamental way. the best of the lot, the latronic notron, has a quirky interface, dodgy hardware and is currently unsupported.
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>  so I'm designing a simple 8-step device that will derive it's master clock from midi or it's own lfo, that will allow skip and reset functions and that can perform double/triple triggering so that a given step can be made to trill instead of just sounding once. if this all works out, it'll be built-in to the aforementioned moogette and I'll start on a 16 step version for my pro-1.
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>  bip bip b-b-bip bip. 
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> duncan.