RE: cool Repeater Trick vs LP-1 tricks>scramble redux

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

One of these days i'll comb the stuff I was able to save on DVD from  
my last computer  death and post it.
  Thanks for posting that Andy and you are right, pitch shift and  
tempo cannot be separated on an LP-1 like they can on a Repeater, i'm  
not sure where I got that notion...a dream perhaps?  A small price to  
pay for all the extra things you can do on the Looperlative. I can  
honestly say as cool as that trick was i don't miss it or lugging  
around a midi guitar module and its craptastic sounds, an extra cable  
dangling from my guitar, and a midi router to make it all go. I'm  
enjoying the relative simplicity of my current rig for sure. No lack  
of options and yet not so many that i spend all my time twiddling knobs.
  A favorite  technique i have started to use again on the LP-1 is the  
fast scramble function. This feature chops your loop in to an even  
number of smaller bits and randomizes them, the length of the loop  
determines how fast the scramble tempo is. shorter loops create faster  
scrambles, longer loops create slower scrambles.   I use this while  
leaving myself in overdub mode with my expression pedal varying the  
feedback from about 90 to 40% so that what ever content I am over  
dubbing is continually fading away as new content is added.. the  
higher the percentage the longer the fade etc...  Using it in this  
way  creates a shimmering kind of random bed of notes that depending  
on my playing technique, attack,  tone, key etc. can sound either  
lush,  beautiful and ambient but percolating, or jagged and jerky and  
random and way abstract. .  I've lately been experimenting with  
creating 3 or 4 tracks of these scramble loops with different tonal  
centers and moving between them to create progressions. I'll post  
something on Youtube soon.
Bill