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RE: repeater format reverse engineering project



Tom,

 Sounds great... Let me know when and where to grab the files... :)

peace
-cpr

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:03:11 -0400
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>From: Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>
>Subject: RE: repeater format reverse engineering project
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
>
>>  I would love to help you with this project, BUT, I don't own a 
>repeater...
>>:) I'm a software engineer who's been working professionally for 15 years
>>(www.musetrap.com/cpr/resume). For the last 7 years I've been primarily
>>working in the computer music field (Opcode, Digidesign, Emu, Apple, and
>>Euphonix)... I've done a fair amount of reverse engineering of file 
>formats,
>>and if someone could send me files, with descriptions of what is recorded
>>in them, then I would be willing to take a stab at it... I suppose if
a
>>repeater owner in the SF bay area was interested in this enough, they
could
>>also do a short term loan of the device, so I could do more interactive
>>work, but, maybe a quick look at some samples might yield some results...
>>Let me know your thoughts...
>
>I'm keeping this on the list because it might be of general interest!
>
>This sounds very promising and the best way is to get started at this
>and see what we need.
>
>What I'll do is over the next few days make a set of representative
>loops and then upload them to an ftp site somewhere.
>
>here's what I'll make
>
>  1. a "completely empty loop" which has, if I can do it, zero seconds
of
>sound.
>  2. a single silent loop with one track with no signal on it.
>  3. a single loop with sound on it.
>  4. same loop with a "time slip" at the beginning
>  5. same loop with a "slip" at the end.
>  6. same loop transposed up "one notch" (one click of the dial)
>  7. same loop transposed up "one semitone"
>  8. same loop "reversed"
>  9. same loop at "twice" the tempo
>10. a four track loop with different material.
>
>then we'll see what we get out of it!
>
>     /t
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