RE: making the switch from Repeater to Ableton Live

["William Walker" <billwalker@looppool.info>]

 regarding the use of Multiply, Care must be taken to hit the multiply
function on the down beat of the loop, otherwise you will get unexpected
tempo changes. I also stopped using single button presses on My FCB1010 to
send more than one message, at a time. In my experience, sending too many
midi messages simultaneously is a sure way to tank my RPTR. Also, trying to
record after radically changing the tempo will also give you problems.
Lastly any  digital noise I had was cured by running the rptr in the 
effects
loop of a mixer and engaging the input mute function. All of the noise and
latency related garbage was cleaned up by doing this.
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Zoe Keating [mailto:cello@zoekeating.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:45 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: making the switch from Repeater to Ableton Live


If you think of it it, write me, do.

I've spent a lot of time trying to make the crashes happen and thereby
deduce my error and have narrowed to 2 events that occasionally are
followed by a crash. Now, I've done my share of software debugging and
realize that there must be a crucial event that is hidden to me because
I can't make the same sequence cause a crash every time.

In all cases controlling the Repeater with the FCB1010:

1) Sending a group of functions via one button press. The group
containing 1 or 2 PC messages and 1 or 2 CC messages. And, everytime,
that group has had RECORD in it. (If I remember. the one that I get to
"crash" the most frequently is RECORD + Set Feedback level to 80% + Pan
Trk 1&2). If a "successful" crash occurs, the metronome suddenly
becomes audible (and really, really, really loud!).

2) Using my midi pedal again to control the Repeater, I hit the
MULTIPLY function twice. The tempo of my already existing loop speeds
up.

I have reprogrammed my FCB1010 to make sure I don't have anything
hidden in my patches.

I suppose an optimist (or software developer) would say that these
instances are really feature enhancements, because I get more
functionality than expected!


On Friday, June 18, 2004, at 06:19 PM, msottilaro wrote:

> I'll look into what I was doing.  I just can't think of it when I'm
> not looking at the unit itself.  It was something silly.
>
> Mark
>
> On Jun 18, 2004, at 4:29 PM, loop.pool wrote:
>
>>
>> Your problems, though, I will bet money are something you are doing
>> incorrectly
>> (as Mark says),  so you might try i
>