Re: alternatives to rhythm sequencers software

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

Hi Bill,
yes this is the way ive done it in the past,however having the drum
box separate fro the loopers mix is cool,i can reverse the EDPS loop
while the machine goes forward,i can process the machine
separately,fade it out while the loops are running,do the cool midi
mute start etc.
the EDP is awesome and perfectly tight,i have no problems with that,my
point here is trying to do this all with software and upon comparing
it,hardware is still the tightest when doing  sponatenus loops EDP
start,stop reverse,unrounded multiply,replace etc. i just set the EDP
to "user start" and i can do all that crazy shit while i pause the
drumbox and waits for me to restart it,then i can just multiply,do
glitchy loops,replace,unround,then while the edp loop is running
change a preset on the drumbox with a different groove and boom
restart it, way fun baby!
then sometimes if i want i resample the drum grooves from the
adrenalinn or from the loaded drum grooves on my digitech into the
EDP,and i can even stretch the tempo of the samples on it,thats a
great feature on the jamman!
After messing with both i made a decision,for this stuff ill stay with
hardware,for non midi sync stuff or traveling ill use mobius.
cant always get what u want
cheers
Luis







On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:53 PM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> 
wrote:
> Dear Luis et all, I think that my old band mate and looper Gary Regina ( 
>and
> the Genie for that matter) has the coolest and easiest way to get great 
>drum
> beats without resorting to midi clock, drum machines or sequencers, 
>software
> etc... Simple resampling, like I think you are now on to Luis, You have 
>this
> great new looper that stores a huge amount of loops so use it as your 
>beat
> loop storage device,  and if you can't sync to anything, simply resample
> those beats on to your edp for further mangling, perfect stops and starts
> etc. Gary does it on an RC 50, before that it was a original Lexicon 
>Jamman.
> That cool thing about this is obviously you can sample anything from your
> favorite hip grooves and dance tracks, to Martin Luther King throwing 
>down
> his Dream,  and if you don't have a looper with storage, an I-pod or CD
> player  routed to your looper will suffice, and from a visual standpoint
> resampling a drum groove live still gives an audience the sense of the 
>piece
> being built from scratch as apposed to pressing a button to turn on the
> canned tracks.
>  Bill
>
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