EDP knowledge was: EDP ignorance

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Andy astutely wrote:

"Rick's right, the edp manual isn't full of "this is how you get that"
tutorials.If it was it could go to several volumes. In order to cover all 
the
functions the manual has to be a fair size, that doesn't leave a lot
of room for step by step guidance.
It doesn't hurt you to read right through the manual, even though
some of it will be incomprehensible to start with it's easy to pick
up the basic stuff.(miss out the in depth midi stuff though ;-)
Usual recommended way to tackle the edp is to start with learning
about Record, then Overdub, then Multiply and so on
(from left to right in terms of the buttons)"


I was thinking that it might be cool to have Gibson or Aurisis sponsor a
webpage where users explained musical techniques,   how to achieve them
and why they are useful aesthetically to augment the EDP manual.

There are still tons of funtions that I don't use in the EDP but when I 
first started learning
it I just had it in the john and I'd read it everytime I went in there, so 
I 
concur
with Andy's advice to read through the entire manual.

Still,  it was very confusing to me because it didn't have connection to 
musicality.
It has always felt like a manual written for techies,  and I just have 
never 
been much of
a techie myself.

In it's defense,  Andy is correct...........it would have been several 
times 
as large but
I still think a lot of beginning users don't get what this thing can do 
until they see someone
use it really well.

And I'd also add to Andy's recommendation for the beginning EDP owner to 
hear Luis Angulos superb CD, Andy's own
solo CD, 'Live Looping' which is a wonderful and musical record that is a 
tour de force of echoplex techniques,
available at http://www.andybutler.com/.