Re: foot controllers

["David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

If you don't have a particularly strong opinion on the matter, then maybe
better to refrain from telling someone they "ought to see a doctor" until
such time as you do.  :-)

As to how ease or hard it is to program a midi footpedal - the process you
describe with the Looperlative sounds easy enough.  Reading threads like 
the
current "digitech pmc-10" thread (latencies, creating/restoring 
backing-ups,
programming glitches, programming manuals...) have left me with the
impression that midi pedals are generally not just "plug and play" simple.
Travis' posting (below) seems to corroborate my impression.  That level of
hassle has actually stopped me from buying a number of pieces of 
technology.

Perhaps the Looperlative design offers something new to this process.  I
think that would be awesome and I definitely look forward to seeing it.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: foot controllers


Historically, MIDI control of looping hardware has required tedious
programming of MIDI controllers since the looper was inflexible in
what MIDI commands would trigger what function (EDP, Repeater).

If there was a manual or comprehensive spec sheet online for the
Looperlative, this sort of confusion would be avoided.

TravisH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lawson" <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk>
To: "Loop List" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: re: foot controllers


> >>BTW - The affect in your reply demonstrates you have a strong
> opinion about
> this.  Strong opinions are good.  They demand recognition.  Affect
> however
> tends to distract from points being made, and cloud impartiality.  Do
> not be
> surprised if others, with differing opinions, "rise" to your level of
> emotion, too.<<
>
> david, not particularly strong opinions, just surprise that someone
> would suggest that they would not buy a piece of kit when the process
> was as easy as that. You said it, I expressed surprise. Neither a
> strong opinion, nor a high level of emotion, just amazement that
> someone who found that process hard was able to operate a computer
> well enough to send an email to LD... clearly you're beyond that, so
> we're all safe.
>
> ;o)
>
> Steve
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>
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