Re: Drifting loops

[Dan Soltzberg <d.ans@verizon.net>]

Title: Re: Drifting loops

A good trick for slowing down the drift is to set the DL4 to half-time, so that you get a longer possible loop time. then, instead of doing a 4-bar loop, do an 8 or 16-bar loop. e.g., just play the 4-bar phrase a couple of times and record that as your loop. a longer loop takes longer to drift out of "sync."

just before the loop gets too out of sync for you, re-trigger it, and relax for another 40 seconds.

For me, I finally decided that the DL4 is a particular kind of instrument not to really be used for loops that have to be tightly synced, and I got an EDP that I midi-clock to my drum machine (Korg ES-1-- a very cool sampling drum machine). I use the EDP for basslines and attacks that I want to stay in sync with the drum machine, and use the DL4 for textures, etc.

I have grown to love the way the drift of the DL4 produces overlays that have their own almost mystical rhythmic logic.


d


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on 1/5/03 10:57 PM, Mark Hamburg at mark_hamburg@baymoon.com wrote:

> I will add, however, that though I'm not a DL4 user, I've heard reports that
> people do manage to get excellent sync by retriggering the loop manually (or
> rather pedally). Since I don't have one, I can't tell you how. Is there a
> switch that means "Play"? Of course, that means you've got to keep your feet
> busy doing yet one more thing.
>
> I wonder whether one could make something similar work over MIDI with the
> Echo Pro by sending the appropriate MIDI messages to it...
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. I'd have been much more interested in the Pro modelers if I could have
> bought a 4 button footswitch for say $60 that would have given me the same
> behavior as the floor pedals.