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Flame Tracer Re: Digitech JamMan???

"Who was YOUR favorite flame-maker?
Collect 'em all! Trade 'em with your friends!"

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~Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>
> To: jj 179 <jj179subs@hotmail.com>; <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 5/10/2005 9:56:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Digitech JamMan???
>
> jj 179 wrote:
>
> > I'm still looking for an *inexpensive* way (i.e. under $500 if at all
> > possible) to have multiple loops **of different and
> not-necessarily-related
> > lengths** looping together in the same box. I know some of the more
> > expensive units like the Repeater and the EDP can supposedly do this,
but
> > boy I'd sure like a cheaper option. :}
>
> Not to sound like a broken record (although I couldn't imagine a more
> accepting community for doing so) but...
> The Boss DD-20 will get two asynchronous loops going quite easily. By
> switching between any two user-defined presets, you could have two
> asynchronous loops at a time. Since the DD-20 costs under $200 in US
stores,
> you could have four asynchronous loops (in two boxes) for under $400 US.
Use
> the Pan mode, and you could have four *pairs* of asynchronous loops with
up
> to 46 seconds per loop. And the DD-20 stays in amazing sync with itself.
> I've been using two since February 05 and have developed whole new pieces
> based on the two percolating away at simple ratios of each other,
remaining
> in sync for ten-twenty minutes at a time.
> No MIDI though.
>
> And speaking of MIDI, my quaint and non-technical understanding of such
> things tells me that MIDI-synced variable-speed audio delay is the Holy
> Grail of FX engineering. We're probably going to have to wait until some
new
> code is established before a looper/delay with synching capabilities will
> sell for under $500. Otherwise they'd be added as easily as LCDs and
Stereo
> outputs.
>
> dB, el Coyote
>
> ps - What happened to Smoke Stick Devil? What happened to that grumpy
> classical guitarist? And does anyone remember the "anti-Miko" who
> irrationally replied to anyone's post with expletives? How about Robert
> Fripp's close pal Terry Blankenship? Who was YOUR favorite flame-maker?
> Collect 'em all! Trade 'em with your friends!