Hey Duke,
Would you have the time to record a couple of examples of these
creative techniques you've come up
with and post them so we can read them and here them simultaneously?
If you are really busy, no worries, but these are really cool
creative ways to use the LP-1 that I've not
stumbled on or thought of and I'd love to learn them.
Thanks for an inspired post!
Happy New Years,
rick walker
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dustbunnies wrote:
Re: The EDP and the Looperlative and me
You left out a big one: the ability to stack commands in the
LP-1. Using a decent MIDI controller(!), you can put together
whole sets of commands that can be fired off with a single
button press — almost like a ‘macro’ or simple Mobius script.
For instance, I put together a command that emulates what I call
the ‘Red House’ effect (listen to ‘Two Soldiers’ or ‘The Red
House’ from David Byrne’s “The Catherine Wheel” to hear what I’m
talking about). With this one, the loop buffer starts to fill
as long as I have the MIDI pedal depressed. The moment I let up
on the pedal, it immediately begins to loop whatever was in the
buffer. Depress it again, and the previous buffer is
immediately erased and begins filling a second time. This
allows me to tap the pedal quickly to capture very short looped
snippets — or stutters — of sound. A slightly longer tap means
a slightly longer snippet. If I tap several times while playing
a line, it almost sounds like realtime granular, as the loop
buffer grabs one ‘snapshot’ after another of what I’m playing.
Another one I put together allows me to do time-stretch, in
conjunction with an outboard pitch-shift unit on the Auxiliary
outs (oh yeah, multiple outputs: there’s another feature not
mentioned above). I’ll begin recording a loop as normal. Then
I’ve a command that closes/plays the loop, assigns it to Aux Out
1 (where it’s sent to a pitch shifter set to +1 octave, then
routed back into the LP-1), drops to Half-Speed, and starts a
Bounce on the next track. This results in the recording of a
time-stretched track that is twice the length, but at the same
pitch as the original. I can also begin to get Repeater-esque
degrade effects, dependent upon the crappiness of the
pitch-shifter I’m using. Throw in some other effects (bit-shift
or sample-rate degradation, synchronized slicing from the
EF-303, etc.) and things can get pretty wild.
In both these cases, though, I’m doing exactly what Per
suggested: I’m starting from a concept of the end-goal — the
final effect — then working backward to find the best way to
implement it on my architecture.
That’s the best way to use the LP-1. It’s a very, very, open,
flexible architecture. If you try to use it plug-&-play,
you’ll get only really the same advantages you listed above:
stereo, multiple tracks, and excellent fidelity. It’s no wonder
quite a few people were very ‘so what’, and gave up on it after
a couple of weeks. There’s not a lot of shiny eye-candy to be
had right out of the box, so you’re not as likely to be inspired
to go in different directions merely by purchasing a new tool.
However, if you figure out your end effect then work backward,
the LP-1 quietly and deftly allows you to do accomplish many of
the new directions you might conceive of in your looping.
--m.
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