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EWI looping clip posted

http://www.looproom.com/audio/ewi_jam_nov2006.mp3
If anyone should be interested...

Musically:
Just jamming with myself into a long loop. No defined tempo, key or  
chord structure. Only goofing around, reacting to sound and gestures,  
layering whatever comes into my mind.

Technically:
Using the EWI4000s to play samples lifted off the tape loops of the  
original mellotrones MK2 and M300. Oh, there's one exception, the  
trumpet sound which I picked from the Logic default sample library  
(and tweaked a lot). The sound unit you hear is my Powerbook laptop  
recorded straight from the stereo output. On the powerbook I used  
Logic and its sampler EXS24, which by the way is an excellent sampler  
for EWI playing because it lets you custom the sound patches to  
react, soundwise, to all MIDI data sent out from the EWI when you are  
playing it. I reworked all the mellotrone sample patches - and the  
trumpet patch - to fit my personal playing style, which I guess is  
something you have to do to feel ok with playing an EWI. The looper  
used was Expert Sleepers AU plug-in Augustus Loop. The ticking sound  
noise you hear (that sounds a bit like a damaged vinyl disk) is  
caused by a the Pluggo plug-in "SpeedShifter" (Cycling74). I love the  
undertones SpeedShifter can add so I can live with those artifacts.

Because I can't find any other sampler, than the EXS24, to match the  
sensitivity of the EWI I have been using the G4 Powerbook a lot for  
some days now and I must say I'm amazed how efficient it is with  
Logic and the Cycling74 plug-ins! When I bought Pluggo  I was mainly  
using them on a dual G5 and had a lot of issues. The good guys at  
Cyclinig74 tried to help me out but they had a hard time since they  
didn't even have a G5 machine to troubleshoot their software on. So  
for some years I have been living with the false assumption that  
Cycling74 software is unstable and risky to use. But in fact  
Cycling74 stuff rocks on a G4 powerbook that should be "a slow  
laptop" compared to the new machines (so does Logic).

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
http://www.myspace.com/looproom