Re: That Awful Synching Feeling

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

On Apr 29, 2005, at 22:17, ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote:

> Attention MIDI time-clock gurus,
>
> A few months back I purchased an Adrenalinn I (upgraded with
> Adrenalinn II software) from a fellow looper on this list. I am
> now ready to start trying to synch it to my EDPs and other gear.
>
> My question: What are the working creative advantages and/or
> disadvantages of having either particular device be the "master"
> (and the other the "slave") in the MIDI clock relationship?


I have no hands-on experience with the Adrenalinn, but a little with  
the EDP. Speaking EDP, Master vs Slave makes the biggest difference  
regarding HalfSpeed/FullSpeed.

When the EDP is the master, every time you go into HalfSpeed it will  
bring the Adrennalinn as well into that slower tempo. It might sound  
cool but there is the possibility that you get bored with it rather  
soon. I liked this set-up when using a Repeater as the slave only  
because the Repeater is so slow to adapt and it sounds cool to me  
when it sort of "noodles around" to find the new tempo, making these  
squirky noises when time stretching loops in real-time. In this set- 
up you can also recall EDP programs with different 8ths/cycle  
settings to kick the Adrenalinn into double, half or other tempo.

When the Adrenalinn is the master you will get the the option of  
jumping in and out of HalfSpeed in the EDP without anything else  
changing tempo. I like this a lot for cutting in/out short slices of  
the EDP loop. I also like it for doing destructive loop trimming  
(ending with Record) of odd lengths compared to the other devices  
(Adrenalinn).

pboy