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Re: Personal looping archaeology - Roland GR 500

I loved the GR 500!  That was an awesome device.  More here:
http://www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Hamburg" <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: Personal looping archaeology


> More archaeology from December 1985 or January 1986.
>
> Recorded live. Roland GR-500 looping via a DigiTech RDS-3600 -- 
> perhaps the best part on that instrument was when it would lose pitch
> tracking at the end of a note and go chaotic; a ridiculously
> complicated drum pattern playing 2 against 3 against 5 or something
> like that on the Korg DDM-110 and DDM-220; and a bass playing friend
> of mine (David Hotchkiss) whom I confronted with some sheet music
> with various phrases on it without specific timings and said just jam
> along playing these.
>
> http://grubmah.com/music/midnight_train.mp3
>
> Mark
>