Re: MOTU's POLAR module

[Mark Landman <mlandman@sonic.net>]

Hey Mark-

Could you fake this by sending midi messages to lower the track volume 
while dumping to a new track? If you could set this up recursively it 
might work...

ML

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Mark Sottilaro wrote:

> 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
>