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If you are interested in seeing the Looperlative demonstrated at NAMM this coming weekend, my brother Bill and I will be demoing it together and in some solo performances at NAMM booth 1653. We will have official duet demonstrations scheduled at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday and will probably do other demos at other times as well. UK looper Steve Lawson will also be dropping by the booth to demo the unit but he has not committed to a schedule as yet. Come see us and check this cool piece of gear out. I just did a performance with it as my only looper this past weekend and had a blast. There is a new 'Random Scramble' feature that subdivides the loop into three different sizes of slices and then randomly rearranges them.................this creates some beautiful and very unusual ostinato patterns to play over. At the same time when you scroll in and out of it, you come back into the portion of the unscrambled loop that would exist at exactly that time in the loop playing constantly. I did this with vocals on a piece where I did a long Alap (langorous improvisation that introduces the new Rag or scale to the listeners ears so that they can be familiar with it as the improvisation continues) with an Arabic maqam (scale) that I've been learning recently. The resultant chopped and remixed track just sounded mesmerizing. ......................like Gabon pygmies if they were into composing glitch/microsound music with their vocals..............lol I'm in love with this new technque. There are plans to write software for the looperlative so that these choppings can be related to musical rhtyhmic subdivisions (as they are random slices not). The beauty of the Looperlative is that the instant the sofware is written any one who owns one can just use the ethernet port on the back of the unit to download and immediately install the new software on your own unit. how cool is that? See you at NAMM, Yours, Rick Walker