SP-808

["Neil Goldstein" <ngold@imagina.com>]

I'd be interested to hear just how much you like this box even without the
"real-time" functionality you express. Love to read your review, if you 
have
the time, as I've appreciated your patches and setup from the VG8 list, and
am coming from a somewhat similar place (I use synths and Groovebox too). 
Seems like it opens a lot of creative space for "post" work on real time
loopage for quick remix,  as well as other areas. From things I've read, it
looks like a "must have" the more I think about it. I have a lot of cool
sounds (from Rebirth, Metasynth and SFX Machine,etc) in my Mac that I would
like to have faster access to, and it seems like the SP808 would give great
"useability" to these otherwise "buried" treasures.

Neil Goldstein
Portland, Oregon USA

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>From: Dpcoffin@aol.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re:  Dpcoffin: Your setup
>Date: Fri, Nov 13, 1998, 10:33 AM
>

>
>In a message dated 11/12/98 8:52:12 PM, you wrote:
>
><<I noticed you've got a couple of lines going into an SP-808.  Are
>you sampling in real-time with it or triggering samples?
>>>
>
>Hi, Paolo
>Well, it'll do both, but until I get the FC-200 foot controller and 
>experiment
>with the MMC options, I won't know how hands-free this can be. At present 
>it's
>very much a set-it-up-first kinda deal--easy enough to reach over and hit 
>play
>of a pre-recorded sample or assembled track while holding a note on the
>guitar, but no realtime record and play back, without letting go of the
>guitar. From reading the manuals, it doesn't seem like the system is 
>really
>able to do just what I want (duplicate an echoplex digital Pro!), but it 
>may
>be close, and I'll certainly report my results on the looper's list.
>David
>