Re: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 10:42 PM -0800 12/18/01, todd reynolds wrote:

>during one or two visits to California, Richard graciously invited 
>me to come make some music with him at his place,

That was in 1992, I believe.  Playing with Todd was great fun. He's a 
superb musician with a ready talent for electroacoustic improvisation.

At the time he had a Boss SE50, and we tried to make some sense out 
of its system exclusive implementation in order to try controlling 
parameters real-time. The printed sysex spec was a bit impenetrable, 
so I called Roland tech support to try to sort it out (dream on!). I 
talked to a snotty young man who told me that he was "too busy making 
music" to bother with such things as MIDI sysex. Big mistake. I 
reported him to a friend of mine who was a senior engineer at Roland.

>That's when I bought my first set of Lexicons and Midi-pedals 
>(midigators, both.)

The Mitigator RFC-1 and CFC-4 were current models then. Todd and I 
visited (the long lamented) Valley Arts Guitar Center to check them 
out. I had been investigating MIDI foot controllers for Jon Hassell, 
who had just bought an Eventide H3000. There wasn't much available in 
those days, and it was down to a choice between the Forte Music 
Mentor and the Lake Butler MIDI Mitigator RFC-1. The Mentor was a 
nifty device, with a table top remote and extensive MIDI mapping 
capabilities, but the RFC-1 was robust and easy to use. Jon had his 
modified so that the switches were more sensitive (the originals were 
designed to withstand Leslie West).


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