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Re: stereo EDP... (was: sample based looping vs. delay looping)

>on 8/9/02 7:08 PM, M. Steven Ginn at sginn@airmail.net wrote:
>
>>  I wish the EDP was stereo, with its own effects loop,
>
>I've been thinking of late that the ideal next generation product for
>estimated complexity of development v. bang-for-the-buck would be a stereo
>EDP. The software ought to be reasonably straightforward being largely 
>just
>a doubling of the sample size. My biggest concern is that there's a 68000 
>in
>the EDP and I think it runs out of address lines at 16 megabytes. 
>Replacing
>the processor would introduce a lot more flux into the process.
>
>The idea would be to reduce the hardware replication one gets in having 
>two
>EDPs. This would also make the LoopIV pedal modes work better in the 
>stereo
>EDP case.
>
>I would love to see an effects loop, but once again that's a much more
>significant redesign of both the hardware and software.
>
>On a pricing front, it probably needs to have a street price of just under
>$1000. The EDP seems to go for between $649 and $749. Twice that is a fair
>chunk of change for stereo and $1000 is more or less a psychological
>barrier.
>
>Kim and Matthias can now explain why this isn't reasonable.

Its totally reasonable and our plan for years. But the always 
changing story of the EDP at Gibson so far never brought the 
oportunity and money to create the stereo EDP.
But as things are going, its rather likely somewhen in the future...
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