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At 3:02 AM -0700 9/20/98, future perfect wrote: >What is the difference between CYC and CNF on the SwitchQuant parameter on >the 'Plex? The manual just states that there is just 'off' and 'on'. > >Dave Eichenberger I haven't finished that FAQ page yet, sorry...:-) This is what it's going to say: The SwitchQuant parameter lets you select whether loop switching happens immediately or not. There are currently three values for this parameter. SwitchQuant=Off means that a press of the NextLoop button immediately sends you to the next loop. So if you are in loop 4, and press Next, you instantly jump to loop 5. SwitchQuant=CYC means that the Echoplex will wait until the current cycle finishes before switching. For example, you record something in loop number 1. As the loop is playing, you press Next somewhere in the middle. The echoplex display will show "L 2", which tells you which loop you will be going to. Pressing Next again shows "L 3", and so on. When the end of the loop arrives, you jump to the one displayed. If you have used Multiply on the loop you are in, the echoplex will jump to the next loop at the end of the cycle in which you press Next. Say you have Multiplied a loop to have 4 cycles (counting in the multiple display). You press Next during Multiple #2. Switching will occur at the end of multiple 2, not the end of the whole loop. SwitchQuant=Cnf "Cnf" stands for "confirm." In this mode, the echoplex goes into a waiting period when you press Next. It jumps to the loop shown in the display when you "confirm" that you want to switch. You do this be pressing the Undo button. The point of this is you can more easily decide which loop you are switching to with confirm mode. You can continue to press NextLoop until the display shows the one you want, and then press Undo and go there. The current loop continues to play during this time. If you want to be executing a particular function when you go to the next loop (recording, overdubbing, copying, etc.) you can press those from the "ooo" waiting period. example: you are in loop 1, and want to switch to loop 7 you press Next, the display shows "ooo". Loop 1 continues to play. you keep pressing Next until the display shows "L 7" then you press Undo when want to switch, and you immediately go to loop 7. If you want to have have a function like Record immediately start when you go to Loop 7, press that button instead of Undo. (so when it says "L 7" press Record, and you will immediately be recording in Loop 7. With short loops this mode is helpful, because it gives you more time to set things up before the loop switch. During the waiting periods for SwitchQuant=on and cnf, you have the opportumity to copy the current loop's audio or time base into the loop you are going to. This is explained in the manual under SwitchQuant, and is done with the multiply and insert buttons, repectively. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com