Re: The EDP and the Looperlative and me

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 9:43 AM, William Walker wrote:

> Preset #2 replace + track speed             my go to preset when I want 
>to seamlessly change track pitch when replacing (either up or down an 
>octave) I also use this as standard replace in which I end the command 
>not with a second press of this switch but with my preset #1 sync record/ 
>overdub switch.

Interesting. That's close to one of the things I've fought with a bit on 
the LP1. I've felt like it's unpredictable as to whether it will come out 
of Replace + mode into Overdub or just Play. Actually, in my experiments 
this morning, it seems to be very predictable: It ends up in Play.

I have buttons for Rec/Dub and Replace+. I'm going to report results here 
based on trusting that the lights are giving me the right feedback. In all 
cases, I'm starting just in Play mode.

        [ Replace+ ] => green light blinks, display says REPL+ => [ 
Replace+ ] => green light steady, display says REPL+
                -- This is more or less as expected

        [ Replace+ ] => green light blinks, display says REPL+ => [ 
Rec/Dub ] => back to playing (green light steady, timer counting)

        [ Rec/Dub ] => overdubbing (green light blinks, timer counts) => [ 
Replace+ ] => green light steady, display says REPL+

This is where my EDP modes thinking starts to come in because what I want 
is to essentially have Play, Overdub, and Replace+ as modes that I could 
switch between. If already in the mode, they would switch to a secondary 
mode (e.g., Play goes to Stop), but if not in the mode they would switch 
to the mode rather than just toggling state.

But I see how for when using Replace in conjunction with the track speed 
option it becomes rather interesting to use Rec/Dub as an alternative exit 
since it doesn't then toggle the track speed back.

Mark