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Re: -discovering your gear that sits on your board



I would think it does as that has been one of the biggest hurdles for
me heading to software; the feeling that I need to define what I want
to do before I begin has really stalled my progress.  Usually I'm a
plug in and go sort of player but all the options available in
software make me feel less able to do that.  That and configuring
midi.

But software is the future for me one way or another I think.

Kevin

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Gareth Whittock
<buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:
> I wonder if that has parallels with hardware/software users ? I work the
> opposite way. I have an idea of what I'd like to do and then try to get
> things, (a computer) to do it..
> Of course, it's great to discover things serendipitously too...
>
> peace
>
> g
>
> ________________________________
> From: billwalker@baymoon.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: -discovering your gear that sits on your board
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:25:27 -0800
>
>  Jeff The Duke sez:
>  I don't use gear with an idea
> of what I think it should do so much as see what it does and then
> think how I can use that.
>
> Thanks for saying that Jeff , because that's also the way it is for me 
>with
> gear. I explore a piece of gear and try to pull as much as I can out of 
>what
> the designer came up with. If given the chance to talk to the designer I
> might proffer a suggestion in person, but in much of the  corporate music
> manufacturing world that isn't possible unless you have an inside
> connection. I go to NAMM nearly every year and most of those designer 
>guys
> are more interested in chatting up rocker chicks.  I personally didn't 
>have
> much input on the feature set for the LP-1. Frankly  That was all Bob 
>with a
> lot off input from my brother Rick and Steve Lawson, and latter from a
> consensus of user suggested options.  I think they built a pretty great
> feature set, one that I'm still uncovering things on three years down the
> line.  I didn't have any input on the  line 6 M-9 other than join a 
>chorus
> of users with pedal board real estate issues in wishing there was a 
>slightly
> more compact version of the M-13.  Both pieces of gear are continuing to
> inspire me and offer up new possibilities. Last night  MR Inside was 
>going
> way out side with the M-9's ring modulator and an expression pedal. Now 
>I've
> always loved ring modulators. I had an AH frequency analyzer for a 
>number of
> years, but I could not see the point in hanging on to something I used
> really sparingly. This is true for several different vintage effects 
>that I
> would love to use on occasion , but not necessarily feel the need to own 
>as
> individual pieces. Those include ones I used to have like the ada 
>flanger,
> mxr phaser and flanger, echoplex  and space echo, or lusted after when 
>they
> were new but I didn't own  like the tri stereo chorus and original  boss
> chorus ensemble.  In addition as I've spouted numerous times before, 
>just on
> its merit alone as a delay this thing has more options than most 
>dedicated
> floor delays.  A typical set of delay options for me might be a volume 
>swell
> delay or reverse delay in to a sweep or analog delay in to a stereo delay
> all set to compatible rhythmic values with a dedicated expression pedal 
>to
> morph them all slightly, and slaved to  incoming midi sync from my LP-1.
> From the bit I've checked out the timbenderit  is really cool and I wish
> more delays allowed the ability to set an expression pedal  to control 
>the
> input feeding the dealy for freeze style effects. That was one cool 
>thing I
> liked about the original vox tone lap, that  you could assign an 
>expression
> pedal in that way.
> Bill
>



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