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At 8:40 PM -0800 11/22/99, Madoud@aol.com wrote: >I'm curious about a couple of things. > Why was the Jam man discontinued and not brought back.....I understand >there is some Lexicon product with JamMan features. Did it not make the >company money or have enough sales. Lexicon lost a shitload of money on the jamman. It only became a desirable device well after they discontinued it. Before that time they had a warehouse full of them collecting dust, unsellable. They killed it off and blew out the inventory cheap, and only then did people start wanting it. "looping" was a the butt of many jokes in Lexicon management meetings for quite some time, as I understand. They just didn't realize how much time it takes for ever-conservative musicians to really get interested in new ideas. You need a bit more patience for this sort of thing. With Harman in control there, I really doubt that you will see a lexicon looper anytime soon. Public company: gotta keep the stockholders happy with those nice quarterly earnings reports.....no chance-taking allowed. > Has anyone ever tried to hook up an EDP to an AKAI ME20A MIDI >SEQUENCE >ARPEGGIATOR? I recently picked one up cheap and am intrigued about what >could possible result from linking the 2. Be interested to hear. thanks >MD If it sends and receives midi clock, it should work fine with the echoplex. You have all sorts of cool rhythmic possibilities, especially if play around with the 8ths/beat parameter on the echoplex and let them sync up to each other with different time signatures. So the arpeggios keep shifting against the loops. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ |