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Very expressive ! I like it very much, Per. Ewi sound is very interesting !. fabio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:55 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 > > > >