RE: Learning How to use the EDP?

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

Hi Steven-

It will be a lot easier for people to answer these questions for you if 
you 
can help us understand more about you. How you might use the Echoplex or 
any other looper depends a lot on you, that is why there are no stock 
answers for your questions.

What do you wish to do with loops? What kind of music do you play?  How do 
you play it and how do you see loops fitting into that? What instrument do 
you play, if any? What other gear are you using? What need are you trying 
to fill by getting a looper? The more you can answer these questions the 
more others can help you. (and probably you will gain a better 
understanding of yourself in the process.)

Looping is not a genre of music or something only done by one type of 
musician, it is just a tool and a musical approach used by many different 
musicians with many different needs, in all styles of music. Saying you 
are 
a looper doesn't really tell us that much about you. We find customers of 
the EDP are all over the map, from regular blues musicians to electronic 
dance music producers to ambient players to wildly experimental types to 
whatever. It is really varied. If you just tell us that you have an EDP we 
can't tell if you are an old skool rapper trying to bring your human beat 
box routine into a live drum and bass context or a Fripp wannabe trying to 
make droney guitar layers into a soundscape. The "right" answer for one 
might be totally wrong for the other.

kim


At 09:22 PM 7/8/2002, M. Steven Ginn wrote:
>First, trying to learn the best gain structure and use of the feedback
>controls so that loops are built in a way that they maintain their
>clarity without getting all mushy.
>
>Second, learning the best way to incorporate the EDP within the overall
>mixing scheme such as applying effects before the loop (do we cut off
>reverb tails?) or after when we only have a single effects unit.
>
>Third, when you see all the commands in the EDP manual such as
>Quantize=On or RoundMode=Off and everyone on the loopers list refers to
>these functions as if they were able to change them on the fly (I assume
>with midi commands), the amount of possible button presses to accomlish
>many different things begins to greatly exceed the standard EFC buttons
>of "Record" "Overdub" "Multiply" "Insert" "Mute" "Undo" and "Next Loop".
>I know a lot of people here use the EDP for different things, but if
>these large number of various functions are meant to be static, I have
>yet to see any recommendations as to standard recommended setups,
>assuming that is possible.  Are there any recommended standard
>configuration setups for the EDP?




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