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Re: Looperlative Questions
Title: Re: Looperlative Questions
At 10:19 AM +0200 4/23/09, mark francombe wrote:
And can other MIDI devices be connected to
work in conjunction with the drum machine and LP-1? Say, like my
Lexicon MPX-110 and a Vortex, or any of the Eventide floor pedals like
the ModFactor? Eclipse (rack mounted)?
Mostely you just need midi clock in these devices, midi clock is
global, so if it has a cable plugged in.. it will work. But the Vortex
has NO MIDI, so you wont be doing that there... there are ways to
synchonise a Vortex... but they are clunky. (incidently.. does the LP1
hav a metronone sound, that can come out of a headphone socket or
something... then you could sync the Vortex, using a couple of
components... its in the archives.. I use this technique with the
EDP)
Even though, as Bob pointed out, you could very quickly and
simply record a metronome sound and output it via one of the Aux Outs,
here's an additional solution.
Go down to your local pawn shop and blow ~$50 bucks on just about
any leftover crap drum machine with MIDI from the '80's. I'd
imagine that probably any Alesis -- like their old HR or SR series
machines -- ought to do fine. We already know that the LP-1
outputs reliable MIDI clock. So just come up with a simple
click-track pattern on the drumbox, sync it to the MIDI clock output
by the Looperlative, and run this audio click-track into the
EDP/Vortex/whatever. There's not even any need to bother routing
the audio from the cheapo drum machine into the mains; it's used
solely as a sync device, so who cares what its audio quality is
like.
I'm betting you'd get cleaner, more controllable results doing it
this way, rather than recording live audio and routing that into the
other device. But of course, YMMV.
At 6:37 PM +0200 4/23/09, Sjaak wrote:
> Kevin wrote:
> My opinion of the LP1 is that, though it is easy to use for
simple
> looping, one will not quickly outgrow it. I've owned my
LP1
> for about
> 1 1/2 years and I feel as though I've just scratched the
surface.
Good point. I would like to add this: because of it's simplicity,
it's
easier to focus on the music rather than technology. And imo, because
of the
short learning curve, you can improve your looping capabilities much
faster
compared to more other high end loopers. Like Kevin said, the LP1 has
enough
possibilities to keep you busy for the
next couple of years ;)
Yeah, I'll play pile on and agree here as well.
Seems Bob built from the same philosophy that Unix did years ago:
construct many simple tools that can each be used on their own, or
that can interact and be used together to build functions which are
remarkable and complex. Elegant, functional, and as simple or
complex as you'd like to make it.
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