RE: repeater loop multiply limitation?

[dan mcmullen <dog@well.com>]

At 01:46 PM 2/26/01 -0800, Damon wrote:
>>anyone else bothered by the requirement shown in the manual that after 
>Loop
>>Multiply one must overdub or record through the entire new (& potentially
>>long) loop?
>Multiply does take place immediately. It's just "virtual" until an overdub
>it done. The FIRST overdub onto the multiplied track has to complete one
>full loop record cycle which "flattens" the track. If you leave the 
>overdub
>early Repeater will finish the cycle for you. Once the multiply is
>"flattened" you have no restrictions.

hmmm.  still a bit confused here.  i guess my question is, if i leave
overdub early, can i immediately begin to work w/ the flattened track in
other ways, or am i forced to wait til an entire loop completes?  
>
>If you record to a new track, instead of overdubbing, there are no
>restrictions...plus you get some very cool benefits with memory usage. 
>i.e.
>You could have a 1 bar (3 second) drum loop on track 1, Multiply it out to
>12 bars, record your 12 bar (36 second) guitar loop on track 2 and you 
>have
>used a total of 38 seconds of memory. If you now overdub on track one and
>"flatten" it your memory usage would be 72 seconds. In other words you can
>have longer loops that take up less memory.  

this is a nice touch.  

a followup question: if i trim a loop down from, say, 4 bars to just the
1st, then multiply, do i end up w/ 2 copies of the original 1st bar?

thanks so much for your considerate & timely replies on this list Damon.

ps- i'm in the "take as long as it takes to get it right" contingent.  :-)

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