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Re: lap top sync with the hardware looper

On Jul 5, 2006, at 17:10, rune fagereng wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I am make songs on my lap top and the repeater. Beats, basslines on  
> the laptop and soundscapes in sync and without sync on the  
> repeater. But still if my beats on the pc are in 90 bpm and my  
> repeater the same, they seam to, over some time, to loose the sync.
>
> I wander, do the proffs use midisync live ?


Hi Rune,

I didn't understand if you sync the laptop or the Repeater, but I can  
tell you that when I had a Repeater I liked to sync that machine all  
the time. Sometimes an EDP was providing a MIDI Clock signal and  
sometimes a computer was the master - but the Repeater was always my  
sync slave and it did very well.

But maybe my good experience with the Repeater comes from the fact  
that I play everything live? I mean, if the Repeater really was  
"slow" or "fast" I had no problem with that because I was listening  
and playing in time what was being looped on the repeater. Quite  
often a musical theme, looped into the Repeater, did not start where  
the (Repeater) loop started. This became obvious when I went "Next  
Loop" on the Repeater, but it didn't hurt the music much IMHO. And of  
course, the Repeater doesn't sync correctly during the time-stretch  
phase when you change master tempo (like, I use to go HalfSpeed on  
the EDP which will change the tempo to half as fast). But personally  
I think that sounds cool and I like it as a musical effect - the  
Repeater does after all catch up and lock into the new tempo in one  
or two seconds. I also tried the Beat Sync of the Repeater and it  
worked fine, although you have to help it out now and then by tapping  
the tempo (not all music have that four-on-the-floor 909 kick ;-)

So much syncing the Repeater. If you do it the other way - i.e.  
syncing the laptop - I have no tips, because this comes down to what  
software application you are running.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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