Re: Vedr. RE: Vedr. Re: lap top sync with the hardware looper

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

One fun thing you can do with the Repeater is switch
it from MIDI sync to Beat Detect and just try to knock
it off balance with your playing.  It's like playing
with a drunk looper.

--- rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no> wrote:

> Thanks !
>    
>   I am into this Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset,
> and have seen him live a lot. His drummer plays
> loops on a mac along with his drumming. And Aarset
> makes loops and themes on the repeater. I have seen
> his rig, and I havent seen any midi connections. 
>    
>   One explaination can be that he has the repeater
> on beat detect, and that he uses sort loops and
> themes, for a brief time, before making new ones,
> and then he`ll have no problems with things getting
> out of sync. I have tryied this but when I uses
> delay, the repeater misscalculate the bpm, and ruins
> the effect of the delay.
>    
>   Thanks for your answer.
>    
>   best regards Rune F         
> 
> jeff larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> skrev:
>       From: rune fagereng
>    
>   > What I am doing as far, is to set the repeaters
> bmp with the same bmp
> > as the ableton-software, and then loop along with
> the laptop, but they
> > drift apart after some time.
> > ...
> > but I still think its strange that they drift
> apart.
>    
>   This is normal, the BPM's are not actually the
> same.  They may both
> claim to be 120 but one will actually be something
> like 120.0247 and
> the other 120.0963.  Over time they will eventually
> drift.  They would
> have to be physically connected in some way to
> maintain identical
> tempos, similar to  " word clock "   with audio
> interfaces.
>    
>   Connecting them with MIDI does not actually make
> their clocks
> run at exactly the same tempo, but it provides a
> point of
> reference so that the slave can detect when it is
> drifting
> and make a correction.
>    
>   Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
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