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Is there a special microphone you use to do this? i supose one that would overdrive a bit would give an interesting lo-fi sound which i love... Cheers Louie --- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: > On 03-12-12 09.29, "Louie Angulo" > <laab2000us@yahoo.com> wrote: > . > > so i would like your > > opinions,techniques,recomendations is a sampler > better > > than a groove box ? or a drum machine? Which ones > > work well with the EDP and how do you employ them > > live? > > Louie > > > Occasionally I've been using a groove box (MC-303) > and this is a good > alternative. I used to keep it on a mix fader to > fade in now and then. On > the box you can easily punch in and out different > drum sounds to create > variation. If you run the EDP as midi clock master > you can also change > program to one with another 8th/cycle setting and > this will have the groove > box play in another tempo while the EDP is staying > the same. > > Another cool alternative is to keep a microphone and > punch in doing vocal > beat boxing when you need a groove. Takes some > practice though. Now I tend > to like this more than the groove box. Besides, a > groove box is very heavy > to drag around. > > A third alternative I have also been using is to put > a computer as a midi > clock slave and use some software for beats. One > especially cool thing I > discovered once was to run Logic with a autofilter > plug-in. That auto-filter > had its cut-off parameter side-chained from an audio > input fed from my live > guitar playing. I had some Burundi Drummers loops > going on the laptop and > the harder I hit a string on the guitar the more > treble was let through that > filter. So the drummers got sharper when I played > harder. > > Another nice software to bring grooves into a loop > performance is Ableton > Live. The good thing is that this program can play > audio loops in just about > any tempo - like the Repeater. I can go down from > 200 BPM to 10 BPM and the > laptop will follow my EDP. But I think the Repeater > still sounds better on > those trashed out slow motion beats. But the Live > software can apply lots of > interesting plug-ins which is yet another universe > to explore. > > -- > Best wishes > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.looproom.com > ===== www.luis-angulo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/