Re: The EDP and the Looperlative

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

On Jan 1, 2011, at 9:32 PM, Kenn Lowy wrote:

> I'd like to know how the EDP can record 8 separate tracks (some in sync, 
>some not). Then fade them, not all at once. Stop one or two and reverse 
>another. I have both, and for anyone to write that the EDP can do just 
>about everything the looperlative can do is just wrong.
> 
> But maybe I just don't know how to do that on the EDP. Seriously, how 
>would anyone do those things?

You wouldn't and if you go back and look at my post and the posts from 
people like Andy Butler, you will see that we all acknowledge that the 
Looperlative does a lot of things the EDP does not.

My point and I think Andy backed me up on this is that the EDP supports a 
mode of working -- and supports it out of the box as opposed to after 
careful programming and choices about what features to use how -- that 
happens to fit well with how some people want to work when looping. For 
example, the EDP will allow one to insert a cycle into the middle of a 
loop. I don't use this feature, but some people do and I see nothing 
equivalent mentioned in the EDP manual. This is part of the whole linear 
loop manipulation v multi-track thing.

I gather Dustbunnies manages to get SUS-style operations on the LP-1, but 
it seems to depend on having a "decent" (his words) MIDI controller since 
it would seem to depend on having a controller that will send note on or 
program change messages on pedal release. That's cool, but the EDP is 
loaded with SUS-style and other long-press based behaviors and works with 
a range of controllers. (It could be that I've just been mislead by the 
LP-1 manual's references to pressing as opposed to releasing buttons when 
programming MIDI controllers.)

So, no one is dissing the Looperlative on this thread. It's a marvelous 
stereo, multi-track looper with a lot of programming depth available given 
the right controller to complement it. But the EDP offers more features 
and more readily accessible features if you are interested in manipulating 
a single loop in what seems to have been dubbed a "linear" mode.

Mark