Re: new loop pedal

[mark sottilaro <marksottilaro@sbcglobal.net>]

If it syncs to a MIDI clock and let's you do stereo
loops of a pre defined length, I'm interested.

Mark

--- Jeff Larson <Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM> wrote:

> Nemoguitt@aol.com wrote:
>  > sounds like there's voodoo involved with this
> pedal....."things will
>  > change and you don't even need to press a
> button".....wonderful!*
> 
>  From what I've read, this doesn't sound especially
> complicated, though
> they certainly like to boast about this "patent
> pending" technology.
> 
> You set a threshold and what amounts to a beat
> count.  Samples
> that exceed the threshold are considered beats. 
> Keep a running
> average of the time between beats.  Stop when the
> preprogrammed
> number of beats has been reached.  This is not
> unlike what a drum
> machine does to determine the tempo from a stream of
> MIDI clocks,
> though it's harder of course to accurately determine
> where the
> audio beats are.
> 
> I would imagine that if you play 4/4 rock accurately
> with some space
> between the notes it should do a pretty good job. 
> But this isn't
> going to help you set up an eBow drone loop, or loop
> the intro to
> The Black Page.
> 
> Jeff
> 
>