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Cheers to 'legacy' Electrix products! My EQ Killer has come out of the closet recently to do duty as a lowly phono preamp, and then i realized i can radically eq some vinyl and resample. My Filter Queen is needing a trip to Condor Electronics for service, and then it will get pressed back into duty. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Rick Walker wrote: > On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Ruelle Benoit wrote: >> >> Why would you buy electrix? Does this gives you some intelectual >> rights on the legacy products? > > I don't know about the intellectual rights on legacy products, but I, > personally, love the Electrix Repeater. > Though more sophisticated (and reliable) loopers now exist on the > market it does one thing that no > other hardware looper does and that is you can control the speed of > the loop without changing pitch and > you can repitch the loop without changing it's speed. > > As a found sound artist this opens up a world of possibilities for me. > It means I can hit a brass candy dish > with my thumb, manipulate the overtones in a rhythmic ostinato with > my mouth held close to the dish > and then can control this sound chromatically over three octaves (one > up and two down). > > That means that every single found object I use can be > recontextualized as a chromatic instrument > with the use of a wind controller (I use a WX-5 Yamaha wind > controller, a keyboard or an old > Roland Pad80) > > When my unit gave up the ghost after many years, my brother, > graciously gave me his old unit to use. > I'm about to put it back into my performance rig after a few years > apart. I'm very stoked about that. > > Rick Walker > > ps I also have and love their Filter Factory, the MoFx and the Warp > Factory (vocoder) > which are all very saliently cool because you can use them in very > rhythmic ways with midi sync and with drum machine > like buttons that control whether you are turning the effect on or > turning it off in a rhythmic fashion.