Re: New discovery on EDP!!!

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

Ill just confirm my findings for all you EDP users... Sorry if this was totally KNOWN effect (Im sure it is to you Andy and Mattias but for the rest of us mortals)

The effect is to basically turn a live played "stacking effect into a loop, as in... hear the stack being produced over and over.

The trick NOT described in my original post quite correctly and there IS a way to produce what I was expecting... 
Here it is again...
1. make a short loop (1/5 a sec or less)
2. multiple out to 8 (This step probably not necessary- but im quoting exactly what I did for clarity of repeating the effect)... and play some audio.

3. re-multiply down to 1 cycle again (divide)
4. OVERDUB ON (important step)
5. Play til the music has stacked at least 8 layers (to avoid noise, try picking the notes of an chord, extending higher if ness)
6. You now have a wall of noise or a beautiful chord.

7. IMPORTANT: Leave overdub ON!!!
8. multiply out to 8 again (or 16 or whatever amount of times you "stacked")
9. You still hear the noise/chord... audience registers no difference... yet..
10. UNDO!!!

11. Now you hear your stack being produced over and over again... building up an up till the cycles reach 1 then they drop back and build up again...

Now... IF you turn overdub OFF at step 7. THEN you get what I was expecting... 7 cycles of your first multiplied 8 loop and 1 cycle of the noise/chord.

Man this thing is deep... 
Again... sorry if this is common knowledge... but anyway... Now off to echoloop to see if it does it there too..!!

Mark

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote:

I have to say once again that the edp is the most amazing instrument, Today, in an offhand jam (having a day off from the country back in my town house studio) I did something on the EDP that I have NEVER done before, and didnt know was possible... It blew my mind, and have to keep testing... Im not sure if I got this right. This is after about 12 years of using an EDP... I STILL discover new things...
Ill recount exactly what I did and then go back and try again.

EDP set to 8ths quant on,,
First I made a short half second loop, and multiplyed out to 8 cycles with a new bit of audio played during the mult.
Then I RE-multiplied down to 1 cycle again... (I dont think I pressed any UNDOs at this stage for windowing, but cant be sure)
Then I pressed overdub (NOT INSERT) on and played, many layers quickly stacked up... pure distorted noise basically...
THEN.. I re multiplyed back up to 8 cycles...
Here I expected it to have 7 cycles of the PRE overdubbed layer and 1 cycle of pure noise (from the stacked up overdub)
BUT that is NOT what came back...!!!
Instead I got 8 variations (probably levels of undo) of the noise layer IN REVERSE!!! not reverse reverse, but reverse undo-ing up to full strength!!
It was very very cool!!!

I then had to take a phone call and write a mail or two, and find mysef writing on LD...
Im off to the studio again to check this.. see if I cant replicate it, and see if I can get what I WAS after a different way...


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Mark Francombe

www.markfrancombe.com
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