Re: Echoplex=crap for dummies

["stevenw" <stevenw@comcen.com.au>]

Perhaps Kim has a good sense of humour as well as being a constant source 
of
education for us.
I thought it was funny and enjoyed it.
Regards
Steven
----- Original Message -----
From: Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: Echoplex=crap for dummies


> I gotta say that Kim shows off a reptilian cool here with Italo (talk
about
> flames!).  You Kim are an iceberg of incomprefuckhensible proportions!  I
> would have lost my cool right off the bat.  But not Kim.
>
> Congrats, Kim.  You're a gentleman and a scholar.  Not at all bad for a
> shorty.
>
> Hmm...  Maybe Italo would benefit from a video explaining and 
>demostrating
> all the great features of the Echoplex.  I'm sure that would shut him up.
>
> J.
>
>   | -----Original Message-----
>   | From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@loopers-delight.com]
>   | Sent: Monday 07 August 2000 12:44 AM
>   | To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>   | Subject: Re: Echoplex=crap for dummies
>   |
>   |
>   | At 6:07 PM -0700 8/6/00, italo de angelis wrote:
>   | >It's almost 4 years that you all guys are pathetically talking
>   | about this
>   | >shitty box!!! Can you stop it?
>   | ...
>   | >Start writing to Scott Gilfix at Eventide (scottg@eventide.com) to
have
>   | >properly designed software for looping into their outstanding
>   | boxes, come
>   | >ON!!! Fed up with this poor old ladies junk talk be MODERN!!!
>   | >ITALO
>   |
>   | I talked to Scott at length about looping on Orville. It's an
>   | amazing box
>   | for signal processing, but you may be interested to know that it has
>   | fundamental architecture limitations that prevent it from doing
>   | many of the
>   | basic functions of the Echoplex. (as I understood it.)  It
>   | doesn't do the
>   | stuff that is time based and revolves around direct access to
>   | the data. No
>   | multiply, no insert, no multiple loops and related functions,
>   | no multiple
>   | undo's, limited sync possibilities, etc. It has "sampler mode"
>   | and "looper
>   | mode" but can't do the interesting stuff that combines the two
>   | concepts. If
>   | you want tons of signal processing power and great algorithms,
>   | and you want
>   | to use those in conjunction with basic looping functions (and you 
>have
a
>   | spare $6000 or whatever it costs) it seems like a pretty good
>   | choice. Can
>   | it replace an echoplex? or even a jamman? no. it's a different beast.
>   |
>   | kim
>   |
>   | 
>______________________________________________________________________
>   | Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
>   | kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
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