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loop-fruits: Hello, how are you? New to the list, I'm just gone jump right in: > Here are some features I'd love to see. Perhaps > something like MSP could do it in software, hmm... > MSP _is_ maybe the ultimate looper, along with being so much more. I know this digital audio plug-in for the MAX programming environment (it operates on what platform? the Macintosh operating system, you say?) has been discussed before but allow me to tout its splendors, even though I haven't used it since I got out of grad school in December(!) Not only do you get unlimited delay time, times however many separate loops you'd like, either within the first or in discrete files, the processing of those buffered sound files is enormous, with either MSP's own processing or the ability to bring in VST plug-ins. Those buffered loops may also be saved and called up any damn time you please, provided your hard drive doesn't punk out. "Sample rate modulation"? You bet your sweet bippie. AND! With the new Pluggo software/programming you have many more incredible VST plug-ins (not all of which, sadly, are available for real-time mojo in MSP) which you can use on audio files in something like Vision DSP and create your own VST plug-ins. Not to mention, for goodness' sake, the enormous potential for MIDI nirvana available via Max' real-time interactive MIDI engine. With consumer Powerbooks coming down the pike "any day now" within the $1300 range, and the MAX/MSP bundle at $495, this is a cheaper solution than, say, an Eventide, with about a quintillion more options as well as a (they say) lovely translucent iMac-looking exoskeleton. Whew. 'Nuff evangelizing... > -- click removal/endpoint smoothing > crossfade between the beginning and end of a loop. > controllable crossfade time (and fade shape?) > Blurring out noisesome end/beginningpoints _is_ one thing MSP hasn't cracked...yet... > -- loop "tweaking": real time effects on a loop. > There is much to be said about dedicated hardware, of course. Have I missed something or do none of the favored loopers have effects loops? Seems like it's so obvious and makes it easier to get effects back into the loop utilizing this method. I may have missed something... Finally, the "&c." > I did talk to some Gibson and Opcode people this week, keep up the >pressure > on those guys! The more they hear from folks the faster they will go, and > the message is just starting to get to the right people. If you go here: > http://www.opcode.com/forms/feedback.html you can send a mail to the >Opcode > sales department. Or call them at 650-429-2400. > Have I missed something or isn't the Echoplex made by the Oberheim division of Gibson, not the Opcode (the Vision/MAX folk) division? Sorry if that's old news to you all, but, if Oberheim went south and/or got sucked into Opcode, it'd be big news to me and my team of financial planners. Thanks. Palindromplicity. Good day. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ~ > --- James Keepnews --- < "Don't quote anybody, Sir!" (.-.) > -- Multimedia Yahoo -- < \ * -- Krishnamurti - > - keepnews@node.net - < -----------------------------------------------------------------