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If anyone is using a Boss Se-50 here's a seriously demented short loop idea. I suspect this will also work on the Boss Se-70, Roland Gp-8, and Gp-16 since they are all related, try this on the GT-5 and see if it works. I always swore I'd keep this secret but, I discovered you can make it glitch in a beautiful way. Set the delay feedback at 100% then play into the loop. Enter the menu mode and turn the delay time all the way down. The pitch won't change but your sound will start to fragment into digital shards resolving into a chugging locamotive sound, this is fun in itself but keep going all the way down to about 20ms or less and suddenly a tone will appear. It sounds a bit like the soundtrack from Atari's Pole Position. The pitch of this tone, which exists between 1ms and 20ms (+/-), can be tuned by expanding or shortening the ms allowance. If it starts to fade just play another note into it. You can get here by simply starting with an infinite loop of say 20ms or you can scroll down from 1.5 secs. I like the effect of the later because of the way the note appears out of digital chaos. I like to use the results in the loops on my Jam Man because you can twiddle about with the up/down value buttons and play these wacky little chromatic melodies which sound really unique. If anyone else is abusing an Se-50 and wants to share carefully guarded secrets I'd love to hear more ideas. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com