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Re: pcm42 mod?

dt:
>matthias,
>re: the below:
>i'm sorry; i may not have understood this, before:
>was the original LOOP based on the pcm42 hardware?

the idea for the main LOOP functions Multiply, Undo and Sync, I had 
in Rio '87 and suggested them to Gary Hall (then at Lexicon), Kim 
Rishoy (t.c.) and Roland.
Roland tried to threaten me by writing that they had all patents on 
this subject and Kim said it was only for a few esotheric specialists 
and to risky to add to the 2290.
Gary liked the idea but did not think that Lexicon would go for it. 
So we met in Frankfurt and he explained the PCM42 and sold me his 
personal one so I could implement those functions. You could call it 
LOOP 0 since I soldered with TTL counters and registers what Eric 
programmed into the LOOP delay (LOOP 1) in '92.
Just about when LOOP 1 started working, the 42 abandoned me with a 
scream while playing and I did not care to fix it again. I still have 
the recording "the last drone of the Lexicone" but when I recently 
searched for the unit itself, I could not find it...

:-)
Matthias

>
>>no, David, the LOOP delay did not have reverse either, because I did
>>not think it was usefull (and I still dont use it in my music ;-)
>>I am not sure what you mean by newloopstart/end, but I guess its like
>>Record on the EDP? I dont think I was able to do the input and output
>>switching, so I just had a tap tempo and had to operate the FB by
>>foot to make sure that the new loop did not contain any of the old
>>sound.
>>And I did all this by extracting the original processor and building
>>new counters on a separate board, so it not a mod that I would
>>recommend to anyone :-)


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