RE: Echoplex w/drum machine question

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

At 12:21 AM 6/25/2003, Terry Blankenship wrote:
>I am starting to see some light through the trees here
>thanks to you.

great, I'm glad it's starting to work for you!

>There are still a couple of things I need to work out.
>
>I am correct in assuming that you really need to be
>working with all quantized functions and with the
>switch quant turned on, to keep loops synced up with a
>drum machine no matter how you are manipulating the
>echoplex?

It depends on the application, but I think for what you are trying to do 
the answer is yes. Your need seems to be keeping the startpoints of the 
loops lined up at all times. For that you want to quantize everything.

Personally I find it much more interesting to intentionally dealign loops 
from each other, to set up different rhythmic relationships between them 
and change them on the fly. I love the new functions of the Echoplex that 
let it keep track of all this while you do it, and then give you the power 
to ReAlign them back together. For this type of use you wouldn't use 
Quantize at all, or use Quantize = 8th to keep things lined up on sub 
divisions of the cycles.

>I didn't have the switch quant on before.

that only affects loop switching when using multiple loops. I don't think 
you mentioned that you were switching loops before, in which case it 
wouldn't matter how you set the SwitchQuant parameter.

kim


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