Re: triggering loops with a drum machine Crediting

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 12:46, a k butler wrote:

> Andre LaFosse at one time had a drum machine which he configured as  
> a MIDI controller for his EDP, and I remember reading that at one  
> gig he set up a number of loops, and then ran a "drum program" to  
> rapidly change between loops.

That's a cool trick! Only recently I tried to set that up with the  
EDP loops trigged from Ableton Live scenes on my laptop. I postponed  
the project though, because I found out that mixing software loops  
and EDP in parallel would require the use of a analog multi channel   
mixer to stay free from latency problems.

(My vision was to use 9 EDP loops, each one corresponding to a Live  
scene containing data to transform pitch of two or three software  
loops. So let's say I go from scene one (= tonika) to scene 5  
(dubdominant) the EDP would follow by going from Loop 1 to Loop 5 (or  
however you set it up). Because the limited foot buttons on the  
FCB1010 I decided to go with nine pitch options. Depending on which  
of the buttons (pitch) you use as the key tonal center you can in  
praxis improvise with many different chord changes, keys and scales.  
The pitch buttons are relative, key and scale is only a function of  
the audio you play into the loops and, given the pitch button used as  
the tonal center.)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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