Re: EDP sync question

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 03:41 PM 9/5/2002, jim palmer wrote:
>actually, i haven't tried this one yet.
>does it actually change the 8th/cycle parameter to match
>the tempo automatically after record?

you mean TempoSelect? no, it forces the record lengths to match the tempo, 
based on the 8th/cycle setting and the predefined tempo setting.


>it might be cool to allow this after a loop is made without tempo set 
>ahead of time.
>ie  1. make loop of arbitrary length
>      2. drum machine (or sequencer etc.) kicks in. (tempo defined by 
>loop 
> length and 8ths/cycle)
>      3. hit button that assigns the current tempo to the tempo select 
>param.
>      4. make new loop. (synched devices stay in current tempo)

That might be interesting, but the point of TempoSelect is to set tempo 
*before* recording.

You already have the functionality you are looking for to set tempos and 
reuse them *after* you have recorded a loop, that is what the TimeCopy 
function is for.

Once you have recorded your first loop and therefore defined the tempo, 
the 
midi clock starts, sequencer starts, etc. Now do a TimeCopy to the 
NextLoop. This is done either automatically using the parameter 
LoopCopy=ti, or by doing the Next-Insert combination to get to the next 
loop.

Your new loop will begin recording, while using the same cycle base as 
your 
old loop. The midi clock will continue at the same tempo as you record, so 
your sequencer will continue in time. Since it is counting the cycles out 
in real-time you can let the new loop have more or less cycles as the old 
loop, while still maintaining the same midi clock tempo.

In this way you can very easily create different song sections on the fly, 
with the first loop recorded in the echoplex defining the tempo for the 
sequencer and all subsequent loops you record.

Or you can play around with what Cliff discovered by mistake, where you 
intentionally redefine the loop length for a second loop. So then Loop 1 
is 
one tempo and Loop 2 is another, and as you switch between them the midi 
clock tempo for the sequencer changes as well.

kim



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