Matt asks about looping technique...(short post)

[matthew hahn <esker@mail.utexas.edu>]

  How effusive is your sense of rhythm?  Both the now deceased
>Lexicon Jamman and still alive and kicking Echoplex have wonderful "tap"
>abilities that can facilitate interesting and complex rhythmic overlays.  

Could you explain the significance of "tapping", it's often brought up.

>Then there is the question of sequencing and fading loops.  The Echoplex
has a
>"feedback" dial, which would be more accurately titled "ripple" because it
>spreads and dissipates your loops like a pebble tossed in a pond.  The 
>Jamman
>also has this available but with fewer rippling possibilities (16 via midi
>pedal as opposed to 99 with the dial on the front panel of the echoplex). 

What then would the number mean, number of loops til end?
time/length shifts?  style of ripple effect?  






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