Re: trying to find the right looping tool (another question)

[Suit & Tie Guy <erwill@suitandtieguy.com>]

On May 15, 2004, at 10:27 AM, ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote:
> erwill(?),

yep. ERic WILLiamson is my middle name and surname. i go by Suit & Tie 
Guy though.

> I feel that there is a great deal I can't figure out from just working
> with the unit itself. Your comment above about the "2 delay loops
> of different lengths" baffled me when I first read it. Can you please
> (if it wouldn't be too much trouble) explain how this is possible?
>
> So far, I have not been using the thing for anything more than just
> the most basic of looping functions (in the "Sound on Sound" mode).

i would leave the SoS mode posthaste unless that's the paradigm you're 
used to.

the opposing loop lengths thing that i'm talking about is that when you 
switch from one memory register to the next in the preset chain, the 
previous delay does not just end abruptly ... it continues at whatever 
feedback percentage you had it set to. the DD-20 juggles 2 independent 
delay engines (each with their own 23-second memory allocation) to do 
that trick.

the way this is harnessed in poly-looping is to use the delay function 
(not the SoS function) to loop with. think of the "bypass" switch as 
more of a "punch in/punch out" control. build an 8 second loop. set 
feedback at 100 percent. move to the next preset, and adjust it to the 
delay time you want for this layer. build loop. repeat.

using that technique you can navigate through different layers of loops 
in a serial fashion, and always have a loop to "glue" the previous loop 
to the next.
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Eric Williamson
www.suitandtieguy.com