Bill Walkers cool Repeater Trick mp3 Re: electrix

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

With great apologies for unfathomable tardiness 
I'm very pleased to present an example of Bill Walker 
using the exact technique he describes below.

http://www.andybutler.com/mp3/guest/BillWalker-MusicBox.mp3


This is a brief track called Music Box, chosen by Bill as
being illustrative.
It comes from a (much played) CD which Bill brought along to
trade at the 2005 Zurich loopfest.
At the risk of creating unrequited audio lust I can reveal
that it's a great sounding cd of guitar looping full of
the usual Bill innovation and melodiousness, and it
shows heavy use of that technique in several tracks.


As far as I know the LP1 does not respond to midi notes to change
track speed . For compatibility with the LP1 "midi-learn" 
philosophy it responds to CC and ProgCh, with each
semitone step having to be programmed by the user.

It would be possible to generate a sequence of ProgCh
commands with the Gordius LG to create an arpeggio
of pitches (over 2 octaves if you also used halfSpeed),
..but it would mean first programming the LG with
a bank or so of midi ProgCh (temporarily) just in
order to program the Lp1.
(I haven't tried the  LP1Mixer application yet, 
 ...available from the forum...it may provide an
  easier programming method)

Having done that the sound would be somewhat different,
as the LP1 doesn't have the glide between pitches that
the Repeater does, and the LP1 rate shift is "digital lo-fi"
in a fairly harsh way.

The Echoloop VST doesn't have this feature either, although
this is for reasons keeping it similar to the EDP.
Future software from Matthias will have rate change triggerable
by midi note, and could have the glide between pitches if that
was wanted by users.

andy butler




William Walker wrote:

>  I loved using the Repeater though it was a flawed beast sure was fun to 
> use as a melotron though, particularly using my GR30's  arpeggiator to 
> turn drones in to sequences via midi, I have yet to try that technique 
> yet with the Looperlative but I believe its possible now. I don't miss 
> the technique that much because it was limited pretty much to playing in 
> the key of C to get the most range from the repeater which mapped 
> standard track speed as midi# note middle C with and octave up or two 
> octaves down (if memory serves me, which lately it hasn't :-)) and I got 
> tired of that limitation.  Now if I were doing a more abstract thing all 
> of that midi note mellotron capability becomes a really amazing thing. 
> Bill