practice versus reading instruction manuals Re: foot controllers

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

" That level of hassle has actually stopped me from buying a number of
pieces of technology."

Hear, hear! While I have grown to enjoy sonic tinkering with my digital
toys, I have to remind myself that every hour I spend futzing around with
menus and submenus is an hour taken away from my already-pathetic practice
regimen, an hour I could spend working on a new song or working on my
execrable alternate picking ;-) ;-) ;-) 

Yours in Port Wine Cheese Logs,
Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: David Kirkdorffer <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/2/2006 7:54:43 PM
> Subject: Re: foot controllers
>
> 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
> > www.stevelawson.net - site
> > www.stevelawson.net/store/ - shop
> > http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog
> >
> >
> >