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Re: EWI looping clip posted

I love it, Per...I think you should play that thing all of the time. Saves 
on reeds, right? The articulation is really nice.

Kris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: EWI looping clip posted


> http://www.looproom.com/audio/ewi_jam_nov2006.mp3
> If anyone should be interested...
>
> Musically:
> Just jamming with myself into a long loop. No defined tempo, key or  
>chord 
> structure. Only goofing around, reacting to sound and gestures,  
>layering 
> whatever comes into my mind.
>
> Technically:
> Using the EWI4000s to play samples lifted off the tape loops of the 
> original mellotrones MK2 and M300. Oh, there's one exception, the  
>trumpet 
> sound which I picked from the Logic default sample library  (and tweaked 
>a 
> lot). The sound unit you hear is my Powerbook laptop  recorded straight 
> from the stereo output. On the powerbook I used  Logic and its sampler 
> EXS24, which by the way is an excellent sampler  for EWI playing because 
> it lets you custom the sound patches to  react, soundwise, to all MIDI 
> data sent out from the EWI when you are  playing it. I reworked all the 
> mellotrone sample patches - and the  trumpet patch - to fit my personal 
> playing style, which I guess is  something you have to do to feel ok 
>with 
> playing an EWI. The looper  used was Expert Sleepers AU plug-in Augustus 
> Loop. The ticking sound  noise you hear (that sounds a bit like a 
>damaged 
> vinyl disk) is  caused by a the Pluggo plug-in "SpeedShifter" 
>(Cycling74). 
> I love the  undertones SpeedShifter can add so I can live with those 
> artifacts.
>
> Because I can't find any other sampler, than the EXS24, to match the 
> sensitivity of the EWI I have been using the G4 Powerbook a lot for  
>some 
> days now and I must say I'm amazed how efficient it is with  Logic and 
>the 
> Cycling74 plug-ins! When I bought Pluggo  I was mainly  using them on a 
> dual G5 and had a lot of issues. The good guys at  Cyclinig74 tried to 
> help me out but they had a hard time since they  didn't even have a G5 
> machine to troubleshoot their software on. So  for some years I have 
>been 
> living with the false assumption that  Cycling74 software is unstable 
>and 
> risky to use. But in fact  Cycling74 stuff rocks on a G4 powerbook that 
> should be "a slow  laptop" compared to the new machines (so does Logic).
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
>
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