Re: lobbying for upgrades.

[kflint@annihilist.com (Kim Flint)]

>>Paul asks:
>>
>>>does it have the tap feature of the Jam and in addition can you dial in 
>in
>>>seconds, the length of a loop?
>>
>>No. Sometimes people ask that. What would that be god for?
>
>Not sure if you are asking the value of the tap feature or the dial in ...
>tap is extremely useful on the Jamman when syning to already occuring 
>sound
>.... as far as dialing in, it would be a nice feature especially when
>working with sequencers
>
>Paul

The tap function is at the heart of the whole thing, yes it does that.
Dialing times in is a horrible way to sync with sequencers. The clocks will
drift and things will go out of time from each other. And the number you
see on the display is probably not even that accurate. An error between the
two devices of only a 100 micro seconds or so will quickly add up with each
repetition to the point where you will definitely notice flamming and
worse.

The Echoplex can do real syncing with midi clocks, as does the jamman I
beleive. That's a much better way to deal with sequencers. The echoplex can
also sync to pulses, so you could have triggers on a drum or even plug a
metronome into it for sync. (using the BeatSync jack)

kim


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