Re: I just wanna insert!

[Jon Southwood <jsouthwood@gmail.com>]

Hi, Mark.

Unless Quantize=8ths will take care of this (and I'm not sure), you
might have to end Record of the first A with Multiply to set the cycle
length. It's always been my understanding that, like Multiply, Insert
only works on full cycles. (Again, this may have changed with
Quantize=8ths, but I suspect not). The only way around this is to end
either Multiply or Insert with Record. The result of the alternate
ending of Insert with Record should be that it immediately stops the
insert, and redefines the length of the cycle such that the entire
loop is now one cycle. The only way I know of to have Insert perform
like you describe is to have it set to Insert=Rpl.

If you want to Record all three A sections to build in variation,
here's a way that might make it work for you:

1.  Find something that is consistent among all three A sections; Hit
Record and play it.
2.  End that Record with Multiply and starting playing the parts that vary
3.  End the Multiply with Insert when you get to your B section
4.  End the Insert with Overdub to play the last remaining varied bits
for the A sections.

Good luck.

Cheers,

Jon Southwood

P.S. I just thought of something else that might cause weirdness: when
I fat-foot the buttons, sometimes I get very strange behavior. It
happened to me at a gig this past Friday night. I thought I hit Mute
and I hit a couple buttons at the same time. Not sure what happened.
Took some fast footwork to get it to respond as expected. Next time,
I'm wearing narrower shoes.


On 8/23/05, mwsmart@insightbb.com <mwsmart@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> I was playing with the Insert function on the EDP for the first time this
> morning and having some problems. For my jazz stuff I set the EDP for
> Quantize=off, RoundMode=off and SwitchQuant=Loop. I was trying to do an 
>AABA
> accompaniment pattern with a different drum loop on the B than on the A. 
>So I
> would play in three A sections (not using Mulitiply, just playing them 
>all
> three in back to back). Then I hit Record to loop that back. When the 
>time came
> for the B section I would hit Insert, and play it in.
> 
> What I would LIKE to happen is to hit some pedal to stop inserting, and 
>have
> the last A section still be there when I'm finished, to make a complete 
>AABA
> form.
> 
> The problem is...if I hit Record to stop inserting, it does the 
>"Alternate
> ending" thing and blows away the last A section I recorded. If I hit 
>Insert
> again, it doesn't immediately stop inserting, it waits until an amount 
>of time
> equal to the original AAA loop goes by before it stops. Is there some 
>way I can
> do a simple insert without it rounding things off at all? Right now I 
>have
> InsertMode set to "Ins". Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
> 
> Mark Smart
> 
>