Re: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES

[todd reynolds <toddreynolds@rcn.com>]

Geez, you have a memory, richard... Thanks for the refresher...  I now
remember it all.   

So, believe it or not, I sold my RFC-1 and have regretted it ever since.
I'm now in my third month of research for a good midi-pedal, but the more I
get into max, the more I realize I might just need a few switches and
expression pedals...  Or god forbid, overkill it with an i-cube.  The info
here on the list has been helpful,  but sometimes pushing the buttons is
necessary, for instance, I have more clicks and pops from my dl4 pedals 
than
I can handle when I'm recorded live to a stereo mic.  Them things is loud 
as
s**t.   

And now, believe it or not as well, I'm looking for an Boss SE-70... And
researching the eclipse, and my lexicon g2 is the noisiest unit ever...

It all comes around...  Sometimes I think, never sell a piece of gear, and
then I realize, we're just engaged in a big trading circle...



On 12/19/01 10:01 AM, "Richard Zvonar" <zvonar@zvonar.com> wrote:

> 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).
>