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Yeah, the Electrix stuff was really pretty great, almost instruments in their own rights. I also am quite fond of the underrated EQ killer. 3 band sweepable EQ that can swap between tow different inputs and send the killed bands to another processor so you can do the rhythmic trick with different processed sounds coming in. Hard to use effectively as a guitarist, but its actually the only Electrix bit I still own (and I had a bunch). Of course the reason the Repeater was unique is the reason it won't come back. The technology that underlies that pitch ability is very useful to the parent company in lots of other uses so they'll not let it go out into the world unattended. Kevin On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Ruelle Benoit wrote: >> >> Why would you buy electrix? Does this gives you some intelectual rights >on >> the legacy products? > > I don't know about the intellectual rights on legacy products, but I, > personally, love the Electrix Repeater. > Though more sophisticated (and reliable) loopers now exist on the market >it > does one thing that no > other hardware looper does and that is you can control the speed of the >loop > without changing pitch and > you can repitch the loop without changing it's speed. > > As a found sound artist this opens up a world of possibilities for me. >It > means I can hit a brass candy dish > with my thumb, manipulate the overtones in a rhythmic ostinato with my > mouth held close to the dish > and then can control this sound chromatically over three octaves (one up >and > two down). > > That means that every single found object I use can be recontextualized >as a > chromatic instrument > with the use of a wind controller (I use a WX-5 Yamaha wind controller, a > keyboard or an old > Roland Pad80) > > When my unit gave up the ghost after many years, my brother, graciously > gave me his old unit to use. > I'm about to put it back into my performance rig after a few years apart. > I'm very stoked about that. > > Rick Walker > > ps I also have and love their Filter Factory, the MoFx and the Warp > Factory (vocoder) > which are all very saliently cool because you can use them in very >rhythmic > ways with midi sync and with drum machine > like buttons that control whether you are turning the effect on or >turning > it off in a rhythmic fashion. > > -- Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble. - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) Sound and Vision: http://www.minds-eye.org Video http://www.vimeo.com/user877640/videos