Re: Repeater Track Length Workaround

[jim palmer <jimp@pobox.com>]

> Some of us were recently bemoaning the fact Repeater's 4 tracks are all
the
> same length, compared to being able to switch between different length
> loops on the good ol' EDP. Personally it doesn't strike me as a big
> problem, but something occurred to me...
>
> I notice Repeater holds lots of loops on it's memory card, and this 
>memory
> card is the main memory (besides a 8 meg RAM "buffer").
>
> Depending how quickly Repeater is able to switch loops, you should be 
>able
> to switch to different length loops on the fly, allowing us to mimic the
> multiple loop set-up on the EDP, with the addition of 4 separate tracks,
> pitch change, scrubbing, mixing, etc. And since everything is under MIDI
> control, you could sequence this...

that's what i was pointing out earlier.
but what i was hoping for was simultaeously playing loops of different
length
right now you nead an edp for each loop to do this
and setting up the ratios seems a bit wierd to me (haven't done it myself,
yet)