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thanks kim! a new door has been opened! brian electric bird noise http://members.aol.com/ebnoise/index.html In a message dated 7/16/00 10:53:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kflint@annihilist.com writes: > >1.) can you set the edp up to start recording with just ONE press of the > >record button and no signal.....when i press the record button once >the led > >reads 000 till i either press the record button again or have some >sorta > >signal going though it then it starts the record. any way to rig it so >i > can > >just start recording with one press and no signal? > > For some reason you have the "threshold" parameter set to something >other > than 0. (0 is the default....) Set it back to 0 and it should work as >you > expect. Threshold is there as a way to "arm" the recording so it waits > until you actually play a sound before the recording starts. Handy for >some > people. You've apparently discovered this feature by accident. :-) > > If you are just starting off, you may want to reset all of the >parameters > to factory defaults just in case something else is set where you don't > expect it. You do this by holding down the Parameter button when you >power > up. Keep it held until it gets through the startup screen to the "play" > state. > > > >2.) when i've set up the edp "more loops" function for 2 > >loops........recorded a loop and press next loop can i set the edp up >copy > >the exact time of loop one on to loop 2 and have loop 2 automatically play > as > >soon as the copied time has expired? > >right now the only way i'm doing this is to set my edp up so it >copies the > >loop one time only when i press next loop button a second time after > pressing > >it to record loop 2.....it then automatically jumps back to loop one >after > >finishing the copied time.......i'm wanting loop two to loop on for a while > > Sounds like you just need to learn how to use the time copy function a >bit > better. It can do exactly what you want, I think you're probably just > hitting the wrong button to end the copy. When you go to end the >timecopy, > press the "insert" button instead of the "nextloop" button, that should >do > it. Time copy lets you copy multiples of the basic cycle time in the > original loop, so your second loop can be exactly 2x, 3x, 13x, etc. Just > wait to press Insert when you get the number of cycles you want, and the > echoplex will automatically round off for you and loop your new loop. > > (this seems a little counter-intuitive in writing, but it's not at all >once > you realize the time copy function is really just exactly like the >insert > function going into another loop. The idea is to have the advanced > functions build on the basic functions, so everything works in a similar > way. Once you've learned the basic functions, you can easily extend the > same actions to the advanced features and the playing is intuitive. So > timecopy being an extension of the insert function, you end it with >insert. > Soundcopy is similar, except it is build on the multiply function.) > > here's a step by step for time copy: > > - set the LoopCopy parameter to "ti" (for time) > - record a loop in loop 1 > - When you are ready to record loop 2, press Next > - Loop 2 starts recording. If you let it keep going, you will see the > "multiple" display count up in increments of the cycle time for loop 1. > - When you have the number of cycle lengths you want, press Insert. > - the echoplex will finish up recording that cycle and begin loopint >loop 2. > > You can also take advantage of the SwitchQuant feature to copy audio and > time bases from one loop to another. (described in the manual under > switchquant.) It gives you more flexibility and control since you can > decided if it copies sound, time, or neither instead of doing it > automatically as with the LoopCopy feature. I prefer it for that reason, > since I like to be in control of it. Some people like to let the machine > take over and automate things more, so we offered both ways. > > kim >