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Re: cheapest unit or way to sync to the EDP?

My friend has the new pedal version of the jamman by digitech, not the
original one. It doesn't have midi (although it does have a USB, I
think just usable for dumping saved loops onto a computer). I'll tell
him to look into Ableton. But are there any other older units with
midi syncing (like the original jamman?) that are decent and could be
found for relatively cheap these days?




On 5/22/07, francisco prado <francisco.n.prado@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to get Ableton to work as a master, it seemed to need
> an external sync.  Am I incorrect about that?
> F
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> On 5/22/07, Per Boysen < perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 22 maj 2007, at 17.08, francisco prado wrote:
> >
> > > I've synced ableton to the EDP, but I have not been able to sync
> > > the EDP
> > > to ableton (i.e. the EDP has to be the master). I have found this
> > > to be somewhat
> > > unreliable, however.  I tend to lose sync every once and a while,
> > > Ableton
> > > complains and runs at whatever tempo it wants to.  I am running the
> > > MIDI
> > > into an M-audio axiom and across the USB to my PC, so perhaps that is
> > > why MIDI sync is lost.
> >
> >
> > No, Ableton Live sucks as a MIDI slave. It's documented by many, even
> > technically described, and I have personally suffered from it in the
> > past. It's better to set Live as the master, because the EDP is an
> > excellent tempo follower as long as the tempo doesn't change. I've
> > been running a laptop with Live plus EDP for many live gigs in that
> > setup and it has never let me down.
> >
> > However, since Eben is the lucky owner of an EDP I'd like to suggest
> > running the EDP out of sync. My own experiences form that are very
> > good. The longer loop you catch the longer time the EDP will stay in
> > sync with the music. It's easy to set a new tempo by ending Overdub
> > or Multiply with Record. Might sound a bit fishy though if you have a
> > loop going with groovy material, at least until you get around to
> > record new tempo accurate audio into the loop.
> >
> > Greetings from Sweden
> >
> > Per Boysen
> > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> > www.looproom.com (international)
> > http://www.myspace.com/looproom
> > http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/per.boysen/
> > http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/lo.fi.lazer/
> >
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