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Re: Foot controller for a dream looper



On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:31 PM, andy butler wrote:
> 
>> Simeon Harris wrote:
>>> I'm not sure this is possible with the lp1.
>> 
>> It's not, and I'm sure Mark knows that.
> 
> I'm aware that there are a few things that just aren't possible and that 
>many of the other things I want could be done if the controller were 
>sophisticated enough to model the state of the LP1 (and really annoying 
>in cases where the model and the LP1 got into a disagreement) but that 
>requires a really sophisticated controller. I also know that it fits 
>pretty much exactly with the playback and general loop manipulation 
>capabilities of the LP1, so it's a matter of how it gets controlled 
>rather than what it does -- not to say that's easy.

But I was really pleased when I figured out how to map most of the 
functionality I care about to a reasonable number of switches. But then 
I'm stuck with the gulf between those switches and the actual looping 
machinery.

Mark