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Spot on. Well said. Now, about those black fingernails... :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Lawson" <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> To: "Loop List" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:45 PM Subject: Looperlative compared to laptop... > >>I have high hopes for this unit. The only reason I wouldn't see him > selling many hundreds of units over a few years is that people might > just decide to go for a computer and be done with it (and get all the > other stuff too). But if this works as advertised, it'll beat a > computer hollow for this one specific purpose...<<< > > For me, it already beats a laptop - I just haven't found a laptop > setup that responds in a way I want it to, one that i'm confident > won't glitch on me, one where I don't have to look at the screen > (everyone has their foibles, and one of mine is that I can't be doing > live music while faffing about with the computer itself...) > > Kim once commented that for him, the interest in the Echoplex was all > about the interface - that's why he wasn't interested in developing a > software version. That makes perfect sense to me. I'd rather use a > stack of EDPs than a laptop. But for the way I play, the looperlative > does pretty much everything I was using my multiple EDPs for with a > few additions, and it does it in a more stable way than any computer > set up I've tried. > > Someone commented that 'the looperlative will be cool when each > channel does everything an EDP can do' - for you maybe that's true. > To me, it's BS. There are loads of things the EDP does that the > looperlative won't do for a long time - very specific development > ideas that came from the combined wisdom of Kim and Matthias and the > others who had input - Andy B, Andre etc - there are things that just > work great with the architecture of the box, the brother sync > feature, the specific way it multiplies, and a lot of the granular > stuff. > > A lot of these ideas may inspire looperlative developments - that's > all down to what people request and what Bob is able to implement, > and anyone building a looper would be a total fool not to look at the > feature set of the Echoplex for inspiration - the current software > loopers are pretty much exact copies of the Echoplex feature set - > but the LP1 already has a character of its own, it has a different > architecture, a different hardware model and a whole load of > potential features that the Echoplex couldn't do because of its > specific hardware constraints. > > It's all good, > > Steve > www.stevelawson.net - site > www.stevelawson.net/store/ - shop > http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog > > >