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Re: newbie needing advice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham, Lindsay" <lgraham@post.cis.smu.edu>
> You're going to stay broke unless you change your demands on looping
> technology. There is no single device that has six tracks of looping.
The
> Repeater has four, but only one input (stereo) and costs $500. The
Echoplex
> has only one track and costs appreciably more (but has some serious
> features--check the archives). You could get six Line6 DL4s, and that
would
> satisfy just about everything--including the optional decay if you left
one
> of them in overdub for a while--but that would be $1494.
That said, you may not need 6 tracks of looping. I have a single Echoplex
Digital Pro, and I end up doing fine with just the single channel and a
little creativity. The EDP has features that let you copy to a new loop in
real time as the loop is playing. If I want to add a part and then take it
back out I just copy to a new loop and overdub on that loop and then go
back
to the previous loop. The EDP can have up to 9 loops in it. This turns
out
to provide a fair amount of complexity.
There are some folks who have the resources to buy several EDPs and
synchronize them. The EDPs have great sync features. I am also looking at
synchronizing the MIDI sequencer in my keyboard to the EDP and using a live
multichannel MIDI sequence for additional loop tracks, but I have not quite
got it working yet. I have a Korg Triton keyboard, and would be interested
in hearing from anyone else who is synchronizing audio loops with live (as
opposed to pre-recorded) MIDI loops.
Good luck with your search!
-Vance