Re: Any More Info on New BOSS Looping pedal

[rich <rich@nuvisionsca.com>]

>In instances when you're not doing the de
rigueur ambient texture stuff, timing presents a problem.

hey!!  I resemble that remark!!

actually, i'm excited about finishing my cd and getting some remarks 
from you guys...there are loops all over the damn place, but i feel 
like i cheated a bit.  I just hacked into the audio tracks and 
started cutting an pasting on my Fostex hard drive recorder.  Not a 
terrible amount of real-time loopage...some...just not alot.  acid 
without a CRT, i guess, but i'm enjoying the results of my labor.

the timing on my machine consists mostly of midi clock going to the 
drum machine and striping a drum pattern onto one track, so i have an 
audible pattern to scrub over and find locater points while 
assembling the song.   I use these locater points to cut up the other 
loops and assemble them on other tracks.  I then assemble the actual 
drum track on the sequencer and it will drive the drum machine at 
mixdown, (sequencer slaved to recorder) and the original audio 
drum/timing track is then either deleted or effected and used in 
various parts of the composition.

If i want to do real time looping added onto another track, the drum 
machine can be slaved to the recorder, and then the drum machine midi 
out can go to the jamman for timing info.

kindof a low brow technique, i guess, but it seems to work pretty 
good and i've had few timing issues come up.  i just noticed that if 
i am assebling loops to the original drum/timing track, often i will 
copy a loop, and then set new end locater points so that that 
two-loop section is now 'one' loop and then i'll duplicate that, then 
do the same exercise to make that four-loop section 'one' loop. 
basically slowly building up the chunks so any minor timing 
discrepancies were minimized as i keep expanding the track.  does 
that make sense?

does adding midi sych add a whole new layer of complexity/price to a 
looper (engineering wise)?  We are getting a load of cool new toys on 
the market right now, but few of them synch to midi....whassup with 
that?

best regards,

rich