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Re: New discovery on EDP!!!



Interesting! Maybe you got to touch the core of Loop Religon there... ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> I have to say once again that the edp is the most amazing instrument, 
> Today,
> in an offhand jam (having a day off from the country back in my town 
> house
> studio) I did something on the EDP that I have NEVER done before, and 
> didnt
> know was possible... It blew my mind, and have to keep testing... Im not
> sure if I got this right. This is after about 12 years of using an 
> EDP... I
> STILL discover new things...
> Ill recount exactly what I did and then go back and try again.
>
> EDP set to 8ths quant on,,
> First I made a short half second loop, and multiplyed out to 8 cycles 
> with a
> new bit of audio played during the mult.
> Then I RE-multiplied down to 1 cycle again... (I dont think I pressed any
> UNDOs at this stage for windowing, but cant be sure)
> Then I pressed overdub (NOT INSERT) on and played, many layers quickly
> stacked up... pure distorted noise basically...
> THEN.. I re multiplyed back up to 8 cycles...
> Here I expected it to have 7 cycles of the PRE overdubbed layer and 1 
> cycle
> of pure noise (from the stacked up overdub)
> BUT that is NOT what came back...!!!
> Instead I got 8 variations (probably levels of undo) of the noise layer 
> IN
> REVERSE!!! not reverse reverse, but reverse undo-ing up to full 
> strength!!
> It was very very cool!!!
>
> I then had to take a phone call and write a mail or two, and find mysef
> writing on LD...
> Im off to the studio again to check this.. see if I cant replicate it, 
> and
> see if I can get what I WAS after a different way...
>
>
> --
> Mark Francombe
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>