RE: [OT] Handsonic's Potential 4 Wackiness ...

["Gary Lehmann" <healthquestrecruiter@earthlink.net>]

Bill Wolf wrote on Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:56 PM
>I would not blow a grand on a handsonic and then take it apart!  It
>feels very toy like to me.  Not worth the money at all IMO.  If it was
>under $400 then maybe.  Better to take apart one of those cheap Yamaha
>all in one drum controllers if you want to hack.
<snip>
>Someone from Starrlabs is part of this group - I've been drooling over
>the drumbar: http://www.starrlabs.com/percussion.html

Harvey's software upgrade for the Ztar includes a MIDI looper that 
allegedly
sends clock and is assignable to the drum pads (those trigger thingies).
He's got my doubleneck and is replacing the board so I can get the upgrade
(mine was too old--he says it's tough to rewrite code for old
microprocessors), and I hope to have the unit by the end of the week.  I've
been using it to control the Echoplex already, and if all goes well with
this upgrade and the EDP upgrade (coming soon?), I should be able to clock
the looper to the MIDI looper.  OK!!!!
BTW, he's got a demo Z6 !!in stock!! under specials--for those of you
looking for a quick fix, this is the time--usually ya gotta wait for the
dang things--we need to clone Mr. Starr . . .
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: just john [mailto:just-john@just-john.com]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:44 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: [OT] Handsonic's Potential 4 Wackiness ...


Sorry to be so Off Topic, but now I've seen evidence that at least three
other of you have Roland Handsonics, and I was wondering if you've done
any
exploring of the odder possibilities of the beast.

F'rinstance:  I imagine for loopers, there'd be a big temptation to
fiddle
with the option that allows pads to be programmed as sequence triggers.
Has anybody tried that?  Variations would include the "start sequence"
setting and the "play next sequence event" setting (I forget what Roland
calls that officially.)
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