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All, In a message dated 7/30/03 12:06:46 PM, stanitarium@earthlink.net writes: >>Mr. Taruim uses the click from one of his loopers, pitch shifted down, >>as a percussion device. Is this the one? > >ouch-my secrets out! >no gary the boom boom boom is the clickclock out from the lexicon pcm >42 (which has many of the same bells&whistles as the 16secddl but has >a much better sample rate and s/n ratio and looplength. fwiw Another groovy trick is to use the output of the EH click track to drive other devices that respond to any sort of "ticking clock" input. A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) Roland/Boss used to make a few devices that could be triggered this way. One among them was the entry-level Boss drum machine from the 80s the Boss Dr-220 (Dr. Rhythm). Another was the S-10, one of Rolands first keyboard samplers. It had an arpeggiator feature that could be driven by an EH's clock out (or any other pulse for that mater (say . . . a microphone in a kick drum for example). My favorite trick of all involved the fact that although the "clock" slider on the EH traveled smoothly and continuously, the actual adjustment made to the clock timing was in regular "steps" (in multiples of 2). However, you could fiddle with it some to get "in-between" settings which would "hiccup" strangely and drop out pulses every now and then at intervals. What I'd regularly do was have the EH 16-Second DDL's clock out set to one of these "spastic" time settings and use it to drive a Boss Dr-220. Then I'd have the audio out of the Dr-220 drive the arpeggiator input of the Roland S-10 (on a random, plus-or-minus 2-octave "arp pattern" setting). This resulted in some truly sick and whacky music that seemed to subtly change and evolve within a narrow range (even if I used ordinary sounds like piano, etc.) and still always stayed in perfect sync with my guitar going through the EH's delays. These Roland/Boss devices are both seen on eBay for under $100 from time to time. So, if you already have an EH 16-Second DDL (or two) it might be a cheap way to check out some new funny/creative music possibilities. Another use of the clock out of the EH 16-Second DDL (if you had 2 of them) was in synching 2 EH units together for a "stereo pair" of sorts. This was done by temporarily sending the clock signal (on the slowest setting) of one EH unit into the input of the other one and listening to hear if there was a "flam" before or after the click after the loop cycled by a few times when played through on the other unit. If you are very, very careful indeed (and have good ears) you can listen to that "flaming" sound go in and out of phase with itself and adjust the timing on both machines so closely and minutely that they will take minutes before they finally wander out of phase with each other by even so much as a note. This process takes a few minutes and is usually annoying as heck to the other musicians setting up on stage (heheh) when you do it. But if synched stereo is important to you, it can be achieved even with these old digital dinosaurs. Out of my two supposedly identical units there was one which was always slightly faster (the maximum delay was slightly shorter) than the other one by a tiny fraction. This method helped me fix the problem. Keeping the units in a rack drawer kept them from being bumped out of alignment accidentally (most of the time) after they were synched up. Now, this "stereo pair" was not the same as an EDP stereo pair. No, you still had to turn the units on and off individually with the stompswitches (as far as delay and hold functions went). However, you could get a pretty nice pair of "locked in" loops going that didn't wander all over the place (phase/timing-wise). Plus, by using the reverse button on one unit only you could get the unique sound of your loop coming at you in both forwards and backward simultaneously in stereo (imagine a sound going in your right ear forwards and seeming to exit your left ear backwards). I haven't thought about this stuff in years. Those were fun times. Now everything is a digital "preset" on an expensive back box (or whatever color your multiprocessor or looper is). I enjoyed doing goofy things back then. It don't find myself experimenting nearly so much any more. One has to read too dang many badly-written manuals to get to the "interesting stuff" that the new stuff is supposed to be capable of. Okay . . . end of "old guy" rant. Harrrumph. Enjoy! tEd ® kiLLiAn http://www.mp3s.com/tedkillian http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html