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Hey Marco, You asked about triggering an EDP with a drum machine and about some tips and tricks: The two people that I have seen that blew me out of the water with their manipulations of the EDP with a drum machine are Andre LaFosse from LA www.altruistmusic.com and Claude Voit from Switzerland http://www.claudevoit.ch/ . I don't think either one of them uses this technique much, if at all, anymore, but they have been amongst my greatest inspirations in using that machine. They are both fantastic, creative and inventive musicians and I can't more highly recommend that you buy some of the CDs that they have out to get some ideas. Andre LaFosse is not active at Loopers Delight but he has a very good website that has tons of tricks and suggestions about how to use the EDP creatively. Claude does participate on this site so you might look up his posts in particular or contact him directly. One of the cool things that Andre would do would be to map very short successive loops (1-16) to the pads on his Roland drum machine and then he could trigger them by hand. Another person who is very, very sohpisticated at this remapping of the EDP multiple loops onto a keyboard (not a drum machine) is Berlin's amazing acapella singer, Michael Schieffel. I'm having trouble finding his homepage through google: does anyone know what it is? You are about to enter a very hip world, good luck and let us know what you create with your experiments. *************************************** Here are a couple of tricks I use with the EDP (though not specifically drum machine oriented but very rhythmic, nonetheless: I put the EDP into SUS OVERDUB and sing loud bursts of vocal noise with different pitches.........while I'm doing it, I am tapping out rhythmic patterns very quickly on the OVERDUB button on the footcontroller (which , to my knowledge, is the only live looping hardware machine that allows one to tap extremely rapidly (and with multiple fingers) on one of the footcontroller buttons. Additionally, you can set quantize to whatever integer you want , from 2 - 126 and then use the SUS=SUBSTITUTE mode so that evertime you hit the button you will enter only one (for the sake of example) 1/16th of the loop. This allows me to take abstract and rubato short ambient tracks and have them really glitch and sound odd and disconcerting until , suddenly, all the quantized 'slices' are substituted , in which case, suddenly a very hip and rhythmic ostinato pattern appears. I love starting very abstract and suddenly grooving your ass off as you layer onto your original sliced groove. Marco asked: "I plan to invest in a Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro. One main application I want to use it for are rhythmical loops that evolve via short quantized replace/substitute/insert actions. I want those actions to be performed automically via Midi using a pattern sequencer. More specifically I would use an alesis SR16 drum machine for the trigger patterns and assign midi notes to the pads. The SR16 sends an midi on and then midi off event with pressing a pad. My question is, would it work like this? Can someone tell by experience? Are there sync or other problems? Would the SR16 work in this szenario or should I use a different tool and which? Did someone has a similar application or variation of it but used different means? Any tips and tricks?"