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Re: Electrix MoFX : Is it worth it?




but i think is the inmediate access manual analog style layout that 
devices like this cannot compare to the Electrix line
unfortunately yes too bulky to tour with and as much as i loved mine i 
ended up selling it!

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--- Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo, 6.7.2009:

> Von: Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>
> Betreff: Re: Electrix MoFX : Is it worth it?
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Datum: Montag, 6. Juli 2009, 11:49
> Oh, this is what replaced the moFX:
> 
> 
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEUSX:IT&item=190317399841
> 
> Tiny, easy to midi or expression pedal control and a lot
> more
> flexible.  All time based perimeters sync to MIDI
> clock. One of the
> casualties of the great computer revolution though so now
> it's up on
> the ebay chopping block.  It's probably going to fund
> the new
> FXpansion Synthsquad instrument.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jeff Duke<jeff_d@embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
> > i am willing to give the Vortex a good home!
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Dennis Moser
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > 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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> >
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