Re: MIDI Looping/Dresher

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

At 12:17 PM 7/19/97, Warren Sirota wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>In case anyone's interested, I wrote an application for and article on
>MIDI Looping using MAX in Electronic Musician. Look for "MAX Programming
>Workshop," August 1991. I created a multi-track looping program I called
>"The Dresherizer" because it was inspired by Paul Dresher (that begs the
>question, actually, of why I haven't seen any mention of Dresher in this
>group. Have I just missed it? Is anyone else familiar with his stuff?)
>
I was championing his Opposites Attract CD, a collaboration with Ned
Rothenberg on this list a while back, it's one of my absolute fave looping
discs.

I remember seeing your article back then, at the time I wasn't very fluent
in MAX, I should snoop around now for that article, I could probably get
more out of it now.

On a somewhat related note, I played briefly with a pre-midi ARP analog
control voltage sequencer recently. It had sixteen sliders that sent CV's,
which could either be interpreted as pitch or some other controller (filter
cutoff, whatever), and a clock that would step through the slider values.
You could route the CV's to any of three outs. It was a great, intuitively
easy, real time, though it doesn't exactly capture performance dynamics, it
was very easy to generate loops that could be varied over time. I'm
considering implementing a MIDI version in MAX when I get time.


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