Aurisis Research Announces LoopIV for the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

Hi Loopers and EDP fans-

It has been a long wait, but hopefully worth it. We at Aurisis are very 
pleased to announce...... LoopIV!


PRESS RELEASE

Aurisis Research Announces LoopIV for the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro

OAKLAND, CA, June 10, 2002,  - Aurisis Research today announced the 
release 
of LoopIV for the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro. LoopIV, the fourth 
generation of Aurisis Research's revolutionary Loop(tm) software for 
Looping and Real-Time Sampling, can be installed in any Gibson or Oberheim 
Echoplex Digital Pro as an upgrade. With LoopIV, the legendary Echoplex 
Digital Pro becomes even more of a looping powerhouse, bursting with new 
Looping and Real-Time Sampling features never before experienced in any 
product, anywhere. LoopIV is available for purchase directly from Aurisis 
Research's web site, at http://www.aurisis.com.

According to innovative composer and guitarist David Torn (aka 
Splattercell), "For those of you who take your live-looping (and 
the-editing-thereof-on-the-fly) seriously, the release of Aurisis 
Research's LoopIV upgrade for the EDP is a momentous occasion: truth. 
Consider yourself to be some lucky l'il loopy ducks to have LoopIV's 
personalisable & hyper-malleable, fuck-with-it depth available to ya. 
There 
are features in this new vision of a looping-instrument that will allow 
you 
to further your EDP techniques well into what promises to be a very 
intriguing sonic future, indeed. Thankee too much, Aurisis: dude! dude."

In addition to all the functionality of previous versions of Loop 
available 
in the Echoplex, A few of the new LoopIV features are:

    Half Speed - instantly change loop speed at any time
    Substitute - Replace portions of the loop while it still plays
    Real-Time Granular Looping
    Presets - store and recall parameter settings
    New InterfaceModes - Replace, Flip, Stutter, Expert, Input
    LoopDividing - work on rhythmic subdivisions of a loop in real-time
    LoopWindowing - Move loop windows over a larger loop
    Sync ReAlign - Shift loops in and out of alignment with external loops
    SyncRecord - Easily record in sync without quantizing
    Tempo Select - set the BPM before recording
    AutoRecord into multiple loops, on the fly
    Expanded MIDI control
    Full Sysex implementation
    Tempo and Continuous Controller displays
    Much, Much, Much more.

A complete feature list, downloadable manual, and audio examples can be 
found at Aurisis Research's web site, http://www.aurisis.com.

LoopIV brings sophisticated looping features to the performing musician, 
wrapped in an easy to use, performance oriented interface. Designed from 
the ground up for real-time use, LoopIV allows musicians to easily 
accomplish sophisticated looping techniques while otherwise engaged in 
playing their instrument. No other looping product makes real-time looping 
as seamless and fluid as LoopIV.

"The LoopIV software upgrade takes the already deep architecture of the 
Echoplex Digital Pro and expands it to a mind-boggling degree," says 
modern 
guitarist and looping master Andre LaFosse (http://www.altruistmusic.com). 
"Dramatically powerful MIDI performance control, innovative new options 
for 
quantization and timing, and utterly unique user interface modes are just 
some of the breakthroughs in the new OS. LoopIV reinvigorates the EDP's 
status as a singularly deep, seamless and performance-oriented musical 
instrument. For practitioners of hip-hop, electronica, IDM, glitch-core, 
ambient, or most any other musical style that favors the loop, this is a 
real-time tool with a depth and flexibility that has yet to be surpassed."

Aurisis Research began developing Loop over eleven years ago, creating an 
innovative new looping product years ahead of it's time. The Gibson Guitar 
Corporation recognized the potential of Loop and licensed it to become the 
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro in 1994. (Later changing the name to Gibson 
Echoplex Digital Pro.) The new LoopIV generation of Loop has been in 
development for five years, building on a decade of customer feedback and 
interaction with some of the most innovative musicians in the world.

"We observed that users develop very different styles and applications 
with 
Loop," explains Matthias Grob, original inventor of Loop and Co-Founder of 
Aurisis Research. "So we pushed the instant user interface to the limits. 
At any moment any button can do something useful and intuitive. If that is 
not enough for you, there are new InterfaceModes and MIDI commands to 
extend the interface. You can study them or not, take it easy or go deep, 
use one part or another, the machine leaves it open."

"LoopIV represents the cutting edge of looping technology, and has taken 
an 
extraordinary amount of creative energy and engineering skill to produce," 
says Kim Flint, Co-Founder of Aurisis Research. "Our beta testers have 
been 
making some amazing music with LoopIV so far, and we are thrilled to 
finally bring this technology to the rest of the music world."

LoopIV is available only as an upgrade for existing Gibson or Oberheim 
Echoplex Digital Pro hardware. It can be purchased direct from Aurisis 
Research and is easily installable by end users. This release is being 
done 
in agreement with Gibson Guitar. LoopIV upgrades are priced at $99.95. 
Purchases can be made online from the Aurisis Research web site at 
http://www.aurisis.com.

About Aurisis Research (http://www.aurisis.com):
Founded in 1997 by Matthias Grob, Kim Flint, and Eric Obermuhlner, Aurisis 
Research has continued the work on Looping technology begun by Matthias 
Grob in the early 1990's. Aurisis Research develops electronic musical 
instrument technologies for license to major Musical Instrument 
manufacturers, such as the Echoplex Digital Pro created for the Gibson 
Guitar Corporation. Aurisis is widely recognized for their innovative and 
pioneering looping products. Aurisis Research is based in Oakland, CA, 
with 
offices in Brazil and Switzerland.

For more information, please contact
Kim Flint
Aurisis Research
info@aurisis.com
http://www.aurisis.com



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Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com