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I just upgraded my LP1 and noticed a new replace feature...sort of like the EDP substitute function, right? I see two options for it, Replace and Replace (with original, or something to that effect). Nice. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Lawson" <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> To: "Loop List" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:46 AM Subject: Re: Looperlative 1st report > >>>This makes me think that Bob and the early testers were not > trying to push the box to its fullest extent. A quick browse through > Steve Lawson's sound samples with the box confirms this notion for me- > all his stuff is polite, with discrete loops played at deliberate > tempos. Not much stress on the Looperlative.<<< > > Just for the record, the only 'sound sample' that's ever been posted by > me is the original demo at NAMM, done with a prototype box and version > 0.5 of the software - the main things that I wast trying to get across > with that was that it was stereo, and that the layers could be > manipulated independently with reverse and feedback etc. > > Beyond that, the other tracks that I've posted on my myspace page that > feature the Looperlative are from my new album, which is no more >designed > to test the limitations of the Looperlative than Bob Dylan writes songs > to test the limits of the acoustic guitar. I can't even begin to >imagine > why someone would write music to do that, if it's not just a product > demo. The things that I am doing on both the new tracks on my MySpace > page would have been impossible with my old two EDP set up, and >obviously > all the reverbs etc are now in stereo - that's always been the biggest > selling point to me... > > As for why Andre's not using an LP1 - I can't speak for him, but if I'd > spent the amount of time working on my EDP skills that he has, I >wouldn't > be in any hurry to switch. It's like asking why Yo Yo Ma doesn't play 5 > string electric cello. The Echoplex, as has been stated many times, >does > its own bag of tricks, a feature set that took a decade to come to > maturity, and works phenomenally well. For someone like Andre, it would > seem mad to sacrifice all those EDP- specific elements for a different >box > at this stage. I'm sure if and when the LP1 feature set offers >something > he can't do with the EDP that he wants to do, he'd get one... > > As for Torn, I know he's been on the LP forum, and is in touch with Bob. > > >>> I know I'm the odd > man out here as I think there are only a few of us who > are angry at the way it functions in regard to > switching tracks while synced. I'm only considering > abandoning the Looperlative because I honestly don't > think enough of us want this functionality that it is > worth Bob's time to add it. Silly to change your > design for a tiny group of users.<<< > > Not at all - MIDI Sync has all along been one of Bob's top priorities, > it's just much harder to develop than relatively simple internal > processes like feedback, reverse and multiply. As Bob has posted on the > forum, it's at the very top of his programming priority list, and it >just > depends on whether you can be bothered to stick around long enough to >see > it come to fruition. If not, someone else gets to jump the queue for a > LP1, if you do, maybe you'll find that the LP1 is the answer to your > looping prayers after all... ;o) > > Steve > www.stevelawson.net - site > www.stevelawson.net/store/ - shop > http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog > www.myspace.com/solobasstevelawson > >