Re: Bringing loops in and out with an edp

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

The thing you mention is exactly the reason I have 2 edps. Some of the techniques Per described are typical EDP-ish things for changing the loop. and using multiple Loops is very sensible and cool for achiveing the opposite of what you require. But yes you need 2 EDPs to do everything... 

Dont waste effort using them as a stereo pair, it dosnt achieve anything except... er stereo, and with 2 you can pan them each a little bit and create stereo in your sound picture, instead of simply keeping stereo from your source.

 With 2 EDP´s, brother synched together, you can: 

Start with a short loop in EDP 1. EDP 2 auto synchs to it, in readiness to your first loop on that...
Overdub or whatever on EDP 1
Swap to EDP 2, and make first recording.. overdub here and whatever.

Back to EDP1, SoundCopy Loop1 to loop2 (audience doesnt notice this step) and mangle/replace/overdub/delete bits of that loop... til your original loop is gone comletele... and go with that for a while... EVEN...
Got o EDP 2 and work ther for a bit, 

Back to EDP 1 and switch back to loop 1.. à voila You are back where you started...

But what Per hinted at really was, the EDP is a wonderful beast, but its better to work with what it does best, rather than trying to figure out a way to get it to do something, what its best at is radically changing the loop, and sneakily saving versions of your work as you go... a bit like how you save documents at work, maning them Doc001 Doc002 that you can go back to when you fuck up, 

But get 2... Your wife will not see you for a while, then she will get lots of sex, as you will suddenly be very happy...

Mark

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:49 PM, marcus kirby <marcusloops@gmail.com> wrote:

I currently have one edp, but I'm getting another.

I generally start out with two to four guitar loops which turn into one polyrhythm, then beatbox and add spacey vocals.

I want to remove the first two loops though, since things get busy rather quickly. Generally, I think I could remove them after the eighth bar or so.

How do you guys remove the original loops and add new ones without cluttering things up?

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