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i am willing to give the Vortex a good
home!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Electrix MoFX : Is it worth
it?
Okay ...thanks all, it sounds like there is luke-warm to
enthusiastic response to the Electrix MoFX ... 2-U is okay for me since I only
use a pair of 4U Gator bags these days (anyone want a Lexicon Vortex? I'm
cutting back ... ) so there is room. I'm moving in the direction of
MIDI-control or foot pedal-control only so that won't be an issue either
(aside from the continuing learning curve I am having with MIDI).
Now I
just need to divy up my pennies ... :)
Dennis
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
wrote:
Dear
Dennis,
I have to go on record and say that I love the
Electrix
MoFX.
Just like the Electrix Repeater (which is the only unit on
earth that allows one to be able to
make any sampled sound a chromatic
instrument with sample and tempo stretching)
it does a couple of things
better than almost anything out there.
The effects in the MoFX
are fairly mundane, but the use of the drum machine styled
buttons
and the ability to tempo drive the effects using a MIDI
interface, sets it apart from almost anything else I can think
of.
The fact that the large drum machine styled 'play' button can
either have a positive or a negative function (in other words it can turn
the effect on when you use it momentarily or turn the effect off depending
on how you set it)
is just wonderful.
Ways, I use it are
putting small amounts of distortion on it, narrowing the bandwidth, and then
suddenly bringing in the
full unadulterated sound at precise rhythmic
moments...............fantastic for real time production ideas in things
like
hip hop and drum and bass.
........setting up square wave
tremelos at very high and rhythmically specific rates (32nd notes, etc.)
so that you can
make things 'trill' at appropriate rhythmical
places...............then being able to change the rates with which the
square wave tremelos
work.
All of these things are fantastic and
really useful for resampling and relooping.
One of my favorite set
ups now, uses one DL4 before my effects pedals to loop a pure
instrument sound
then pass it through whatever effects (including the
MoFX and the Filter Factory which works similarly)
then putting a second
DL4 on the back side of that to be able to loop the 'effected
sounds'
then running all of it into my little VOX and ROLAND
battery powered guitar and bass amps,
micing it all and then running it
through the Looperlative LP-1 as a final way of slicing, dicing and
arrangeing
the piece of music.
I would be bereft if I lost the
unit.
My only regret about the Electrix stuff is that it takes up two
rack spaces each and
it makes it unsuitable for me to tour with
it.
I always take an extra 6 space rack with me to my gigs with the
Electrix, Repeater, Filter Factory and MoFX
all hooked up but it's too
much shit to take to a festival
so most people in the looping community
have never seen me use this setup.
It's a bitchen one and I can see
why a lot of people have gone the Plogue Bidule route with laptops to get
this kind
of flexibility, musically.
Yeah, I vote
THUMBS UP on all that Electrix Gear.
I was set up to have a product
endorsement if they had ever rereleased and I was bummed BIG TIME when they
tanked.
LONG LIVE ELECTRIX!!!!
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