Re: Re: Foot controller for a dream looper

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Simeon Harris wrote:
>
>> With mobius you wouldn't need to model the looper in the controller. 
>You just write a script for each button that asks "if mobius is in this 
>state, then do this. If not then do something else". You'd just need to 
>script the behaviours you want depending on the current conditions. This 
>is not possible with the lp1 and I'm not sure even the most sophisticated 
>floor controller can model a looper within it.
> However even as I resist a bit the rack aspect of the LP-1, a computer 
>based solution seems to go even further in the wrong direction....
>
> Mark
But you have very, very sophisticated and specific, idiosyncratic 
design/requests for a looper, Mark.
Honestly,  how could any dedicated hardware looper EVER accomplish what 
you want, specifically,
let alone what every single other sophisticated looper in the world wants.

You are going to have to go with a computer or else, design your own 
looper as Bob Amstadt did when
he was frustrated with the different paradigms that were available in 
hardware when he designed the
LP-1.

Given that the LP-1 is hardware,  it is by far, the most configurable 
piece of hardware looping gear
ever designed and manufactured.    Will it do everything,  no,  but it 
even has the potential to add new
functionality through continuing software design if there is a consensus 
in the user base.

Additionally,  it is sophisticated that you can get close, if not 
accomplish, a large amount of the things you want.
It just doesn't have long press capability.

Honestly,  it's okay if you don't use the LP-1 as I told you in my last 
private letter to you.
The LP-1 is not for everyone and Bob has been really clear about that 
from day one.

Mobius and a Laptop, with a good sound card and a sophisticated midi 
footpedal configuration
sound like it's the closest to what you want to do.    It will require a 
lot of hard work on your part
to get it all going the way you want, though.   That's the beautiful 
nature of the beast.

rick walker