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Rick i am interested go ahead and send it to me! cheers Luis --- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > I see that M-Audio has a new controller called a > Trigger Finger which has 16 > pads and several knobs and sliders. > > I want one badly because it is small and lightweight > and has the equivalent > of two octaves of modal triggering capabilities > which in my harmonically limited universe is my idea > of a good time. > > I used to use my Roland Octapad as what I called a > modal log drum and I > loaded up several different > world music scales from C to C into it so that I > could trigger my old Akai > S950 sampler......voila, a modal > electronic baliphone with no wrong notes (as long as > you don't > modulate...............lol). > > I've been using my Octapad again to control my > Repeater loops melodically. > I love doing this with a complex timbral > loop like a brass candy dish, stuck and controlled > by overtone comb filter > manipulations using the chamber of the mouth. The > portamento effect when > going between intervallically disparate notes is so > cool using this > technique and I love taking a found object and > suddenly recontextualizing > it into a tuned and playable musical instrument. > > Again, credit where credit is due (which seems to be > my spiritual lesson and > work for this week), my brother > Bill is the person who hipped me to this technique > and I think he does it as > well as anyone I've seen. > > I especially love how he uses a sequencer on his > midi guitar to drive octave > and fifth jumps on his Repeater loops. > If anyone wants to hear the results of a very cool > experiment that Bill did > using me, a kanjira and a Bansuri bamboo > flute as his guinea pigs let me know and I'll e-mail > it to you off list. > > I think it is too hefty to post at L.D. although I'm > a little murky on the > accuracy of that statement. > > www.luis-angulo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com