Short Loops

["Sean Witters" <seanwitters@hotmail.com>]

If anyone is using a Boss Se-50 here's a seriously demented short loop 
idea. 
I suspect this will also work on the Boss Se-70, Roland Gp-8, and Gp-16 
since they are all related, try this on the GT-5 and see if it works.  I 
always swore I'd keep this secret but, I discovered you can make it glitch 
in a beautiful way.  Set the delay feedback at 100% then play into the 
loop. 
  Enter the menu mode and turn the delay time all the way down.  The pitch 
won't change but your sound will start to fragment into digital shards 
resolving into a chugging locamotive sound, this is fun in itself but keep 
going all the way down to about 20ms or less and suddenly a tone will 
appear.  It sounds a bit like the soundtrack from Atari's Pole Position.  
The pitch of this tone, which exists between 1ms and 20ms (+/-), can be 
tuned by expanding or shortening the ms allowance.  If it starts to fade 
just play another note into it.  You can get here by simply starting with 
an 
infinite loop of say 20ms or you can scroll down from 1.5 secs.  I like 
the 
effect of the later because of the way the note appears out of digital 
chaos.  I like to use the results in the loops on my Jam Man because you 
can 
twiddle about with the up/down value buttons and play these wacky little 
chromatic melodies which sound really unique.  If anyone else is abusing 
an 
Se-50 and wants to share carefully guarded secrets I'd love to hear more 
ideas.


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