MOTU's POLAR module

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Hey gang,

As I've said before, I wanted to spend some time looping with Mark of 
the Unicorn's POLAR module (part of Digital Performer 3 and 4) and this 
morning I did for a bit.

While it does an amazing job of doing real time seamless looping, it 
has some major issues: No control of feedback or decay rate.  You can 
make every pass it's own track for later use.  You can do all sorts of 
fun routing to plug in effects.  Your loop length is only governed by 
how much RAM you have, so you can have amazingly long loops.  Maybe the 
longest of any digital looping device.

But with no feedback control or decay function, it becomes mostly 
useless to me.  Oh well.  I sent a similar letter to MOTU, but I doubt 
it will change anything.

Mark Sottilaro