Re: Re: Mobius Beta 7 Available

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

At 20:31 23/03/05, you wrote:
>>Talk to Jeff about what is missing not me I am just an enthusiastic 
>user. I
>>will agree with one thing for sure if you don't have an FCB1010 and an 
>ASIO
>>capable card (PCI) you won't get as much out of this program.

hi Tony,
Quite right, and luckily he saw anyway.

The EDP has a lot of features designed to allow the manipulation of loops 
well beyond the the "loop/overdub/feedback" norm.
Mobius incorporates some of those, particularly the more commonly used 
ones, it also has new features not found in the EDP. I don't see it as 
having stuff missing, rather that it's a different beast altogether which 
incorporates a lot of EDP ideas.

I'm partly responsible for some of the EDP Interface Modes, so probably I 
overestimate their importance ( there's plenty of stuff in there no-one 
exploited yet).

hi Jeff
Your take on Loop Windowing sounds very promising.


"Reverse Snipplets" was an effect that was easy in loop3.
Ending a Multiply with Reverse would cause the loop length to be cut where 
the Reverse was pressed( UnRounded Multiply) so I could play a short 
phrase 
over a loop, and then have it Reversed and Repeated , with a small section 
of loop as backing. By using Nextloop to create the "Snipplet" it was 
possible to leave the original loop intact and return to it.

In Loop4 the Multiply function was improved so that alternate endings 
would 
still give a RoundMultiply, and Reverse Snipplets required a second press 
of Reverse to make them happen
(not so easy to get good timing on what is anyway a difficult technique to 
pull off)

Against his better judgement, I eventually persuaded Matthias to put 
"Reverse Snipplets" into Loop4.
"The Hidden UnroundedMultiply Reverse Function" (in the manual) was the 
result.
As far as I know, only Andre LaFosse ever found the function.

   "Snipplets" is a word in a language called Switznglish, the meaning is 
self evident.

andybutler