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EDP Beat sync (was: Re: Help needed w/echoplex ARRAY)

On 1/5/07, a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>> I hadn't realised that the edp could also send a pulse for  
>> beatsyncing,
>> ...anyone got the details for that?


Not more details than that it works fine. I once used it in the  
studio to sync several EDP takes as a traditional multi tracking  
recording session. First I recorded the EDP Beat sync pulse output on  
a separate track. This "beat" track were then used as the sync source  
(equalling André's "beat sync master" EDP in the related NYC gig  
setup) when I recorded several other tracks with the EDP, one after  
the other.

The rest of this multi tracking EDP session may also be of interest  
for those who care to do recordings. I did not record the audio  
output of the EDP - I recorded my audio input (live played  
instrument) plus the MIDI control data sent to the EDP for looping,  
cutting, reversing etc while I was playing he instrument and live  
looping. Then I recreated the improvised EDP performance by feeding  
the (now beat synced) EDP the recorded live audio and the MIDI  
control data I had played at the same time during the tracking of the  
performance. The point in doing this was that I could put different  
layers and parts of my EDP improvisation as different audio tracks in  
Logic and mix it all in a more orchestrated way (different filtering  
and effects on different EDP sections). The alternative would have  
been to do as André and borrow a rack of EDP's but at the time I  
didn't know any one at all in this country except for me that had an  
EDP.

Today I do not separate looped layers for different effect treatments  
because I think it disturbs the process of musical improvisation.  
Instead I have gotten used to play also the effects, as I play an  
instrument, and record them as part of different layers in the same  
loop or parallel loops (stereo looping in Mobius).

Eventually I'm going back to a more "composing" method in the future  
as I'm now moving into using the EWI a lot more. With the EWI I can  
record its unquantized MIDI output, which gives you the option of  
finalizing the sound afterwards without harming the musical  
performance. But that's just recordist geek talk that doesn't rely  
much to a live situation.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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