Re: The Echoplex Manual

[jeremy <jeremy@masse.org.uk>]

Title: Re: The Echoplex Manual

The EDP is a complex and versatile device. Its software is unusual in that it has been evolved with an "end user" rather than a business mentality. 

What you have is a device that can have a range of distinct characters depending on your starting point. In order to have a comprehensive and linear explanation you would need a number of different sub-manuals. 

For instance each "interface mode" has implications on how you would apply round, quantise, sync, legion insert functions etc. Using a pedal for feedback likewise. 

Thanks Kim, Matthias, Andy, beta testers etc. for keeping this amazing tool evolving and providing such a wealth of information and support to help us all use such an elegant and musical tool. 

Jeremy
www.masse.org.uk

> From: Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:24:33 -0800
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: The Echoplex Manual Sucks and the Guy That Wrote It Is an Idiot
> Resent-From: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:25:48 -0500

> At 09:07 AM 10/13/2004, Larry Cooperman wrote:
> >On Oct 13, 2004, at 7:50 AM, Travis Hartnett wrote:
> >
> >>Perhaps I missed it, but what exactly are you having problems with 
> >>regarding the EDP?  Between the manual, the online FAQs and knowledge 
> >>base here, I think there's a ready answer to most questions.
> >
> >My problem is the free association and lack of organization of the 
> >thing.  The language is secondary but it is a bit idiosyncratic of an 
> >artist which makes Kim more respectable to me but not while I'm reading 
> >the manual.
>
> Getting back to this whole controversy over the Echoplex manual and my 
> manual writing skills or lack thereof, I never was able to understand 
> exactly what problem you have with the manual. You wrote a lot of nifty 
> words and interesting literary references in order to say "the manual 
> sucks". So far I've found this unhelpful, because there is a complete lack 
> of specifics.
>
> Can you give some specific examples of how or where it sucks? Exactly what 
> was wrong with it?
>
> And if I were to improve it, what exactly would I do?
>
> I wonder, is your problem with the manual one of expectations? Do you think 
> a manual for a looper is going to teach you how to play the instrument and 
> be a looper? It won't do that. Mostly, it will only explain the details of 
> how the features operate.
>
> Or, compare to another context: Did you learn to play guitar in one 
> afternoon by reading the manual that came with your guitar? Or did that 
> manual only explain how to adjust the bridge and change the strings, and 
> you learned to play from teachers and years of practice?
>
> kim
>
>
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