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Re: Kawaii K1R

How did I miss the beginning of the Kawai thread? I had one of those once. For me, it had a few really nice, "breathy" patches (worth keeping the unit for that alone). I still own a Kawai K5m and a K3m. Both are very nice-sounding synth modules. Too bad the display on the K5m eventually gets glitchy (the backlight).
 
Regards, Paul

From: richard sales <richard@glasswing.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:21 PM
Subject: Kawaii K1R

Rick (continuing the Kawaii K1R conversation)

http://www.museresearch.com/products/receptor.php

Sorry I couldn't remember this.  I'm uploading a gig of music via YouSendIt so my connection is very pokey right now.  But this looks like what I would do.  Expensive I guess but looks rugged and quite capable.  Either this or take a laptop with Kontakt player or something in it.  Otherwise you're buying old cranky equipment that will soon need financial love.  

For ex, I'm about to spend what I estimate will be around a grand on repairing etc my old Jupiter 8 and GR300.  Ouch!  But I love them so much!

R


On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Rick Walker wrote:

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Per Boysen wrote: 
FYI:
Rick Walker and Michael Peters, of this list, have bought The Harmonic
Capo which may give you a similar overtone effect for an ordinary
guitar:
The first video on this page is me recording for the first time with my Harmonic Capo
on a Fretless Stratocaster (with UV active daylgo pink strings, I might add...lol).

http://www.youtube.com/looppool

I also was using the 1st prototype of the Looperlative LP-2 Mini Looper in this recording.

I love playing things for the first time, sometimes.

How the capo works is that you place it on the 12 fret (or on any barre chord harmonics point)
and place the rubber stoppers so that they just barely touch the strings so that the default
sound of the instrument (unfretted) are the barre octave harmonics.

What is so hip about this set up is that if you fret the strings before the capo,  it depresses them
so that the rubber stoppers are no longer touching the strings.

This allows one to solo with a normal guitar sound but the instrument always defaults to the
12th fret harmonics.

Because of this,  it sounds wonderful with typical open tunings, but I find it even more versatile
to tune the guitar to a 6 string scale (of one's choosing) so you always have finger picking
access to harmonic melodies.

that's what I did on this track.
Another technical note are two effects that I had added to the LP-2......quadruple and quarter speed
and one I call 'random retrigger'   which takes the loop to random points whenever one retriggers
the unit.     Playing in a fixed scale as I am,  I am always getting some scalar pitch information
even though I may have more experimental sounding timbres coming from the guitar.

I'm not really much of a guitarist but it make the instrument lie somewhere between a guitar
and a zither/harp paradigm.

I love it but love my current tuning so much that I'm afraid to change it......more experiments to come.