Re: quad looping

["Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

Thanks for all the suggestions regarding quad panpots, etc.  Keep 'em 
coming!

I settled on quad as a compromise between portability and ability to 
immerse the
audience in sound.  Currently, it takes me a long time to set-up, 
primarily due
to the number of instruments I like to use.  [Approximately 2 hours each 
time I
move the stuff.  One gig means 8 hours cumulative "overhead" time: 2 hours 
for
studio to van (strike studio), 2 hours for van to gig space (set-up gig), 2
hours for gig back to van (strike gig), 2 hours for van back to studio 
(set-up
studio).  Perhaps I should seek professional help. :)   Perhaps I should 
take up
the piccolo.  Perhaps I'm jealous of you guitarists with your "15 minute, 
one
trip carries all, and I still whine about it" messages. ]  So I'm not 
scared of
a little more additional time, but I don't want to go overboard! :)  
Besides, if
I'm used to quad, in a pinch I could probably make do with stereo.  The 
more
output channels I add, the increasingly harder this "downsizing" would be.

I want to create music (for lack of a better term) that must be experienced
live.  Although you could record four channels, most people don't have the
equipment.

I'm thinking that I could convert a joystick (from Digi-key or Jameco) to
produce 4 continuous controller midi data streams.  These would feed a
SwitchBlade unit and enable quad panning of a given input.  With the proper
tools (probably some programming on a laptop), I can share the quad panpot 
among
different inputs.  The laptop would permit animation of the panning as 
well.
I'm thinking that a Peavey PC1600x would work well for controlling the 
laptop
which would then control everything else.

Dennis Leas
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dennis@mdbs.com


-----Original Message-----
From: L Tremblay <ltct@concentric.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: quad looping


>I had a Technics quadraphonic stereo system in the '70s. It was
>great when stations broadcast in quad, but it difficult and expensive
>to find quad records. :(
>
>- Larry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net>
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:15 AM
>Subject: RE: quad looping
>
>
>>A friend of mine told me of a quadraphonic radio station here in 
>California
>>in the early Seventies, when quadraphonic records started to come out.  
>He
>>told me they put together two different transmitters, each in stereo, of
>>course, tuned to the same frequency, and your radio was supposed to mix 
>and
>>match, and you could hear the whole thing in your living room.
>>
>>Come to think of it, wouldn't it be great that you could have a worldwide
>>concert where the bands are playing somewhere and you could set yourself 
>up
>>at home and listen in surround sound to the whole thing, as though you 
>were
>>sitting there?  It would also help if you had one of those 64-inch
>>flat-screen digital TVs.  What about doing that in a movie theater?  
>Movie
>>theathers all over the world with live music from somewhere...  OK, what
>>about loopers playing the music?  Wouldn't that be cool?
>>
>>  | -----Original Message-----
>>  | From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tcn62@ici.net]
>>  | Sent: Monday 01 November 1999 6:12 PM
>>  | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>>  | Subject: Re: quad looping
>>  |
>>  |
>>  | At 09:50 AM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>  | (What do you call a
>>  | >quad pan-pot, anyhow?)
>>  |
>>  | Back in 1969, The Pink Floyd were calling their surround-sound setup
>the
>>  | Azimuth Co-Ordinator System, although theirs was hexaphonic rather 
>than
>>  | quad. (They had used a quad system as early as '67, at the
>>  | infamous Games
>>  | for May show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the rear speakers
>>  | were stolen
>>  | by the audience!) A joystick could send a sound source (which was
>>  | frequently tape loops, to bring this on-topic!) panning around the
>hall.
>>  | The loop most often remembered (a wonder in itself) was the sound of
>>  | footsteps walking completely around the crowd.
>>  |
>>  | But if you called yours a quad pan pot, we'd know what you were
>>  | talking about!
>>  |
>>  | Tim
>>  |
>>  |
>>
>>
>