Re: Suck because you're Looping ?

[mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

?!  Uh, I never said that Phil Keaggy would perfer a JamMan over an 
echoplex.  (I don't even know him or his music) However, I can 
speculate that he liked the very simple elegant interface the JamMan 
uses.  The reason I liked it is because all I had to do is tap once to 
start my loop, and then it would count a preset amount of beats 
(clocked to MIDI) and then go out of record.  Instant loop synced to a 
MIDI clock.  All new loops would also match up and you could toggle 
between them like an EDP.  I know you can kind of do that using 
quantize functions on the EDP, but I've tried it and it's not the same.

However, the fidelity of the EDP is way better than the JamMan and if 
money was no object, dual EDPs would be the way to go.

I've kind of grown hooked to the way the Repeater can chase a clock 
that changes.  The JamMan and EDP can't sync to a clock that changes 
tempo.

Mark Sottilaro

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 05:59  PM, Terry Blankenship wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Why do you think Phil Keaggy would prefer a Jam Man
> over an echoplex? Does it do things you can't do on an
> echoplex, or was he just morte use to the jam man?
>
> Terry
>
> --- mark <sine@zerocrossing.net> wrote:
>> On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:17  AM, Clayton Gary
>> Lehmann wrote:
>>> Greg replied:
>>> I've been thinking about this concept for a day or
>> two now, the idea
>>> that we would use loopers to cover up the fact
>> that we are poor
>>> instrumentalists.
>>
>> If anything it's the exact opposite.  Unless you're
>> equipped with a
>> looper with an "undo" function, you're sure to hear
>> that mistake over
>> and over, where as in a live performance it usually
>> looms bigger in
>> your mind than your audience, as it's totally
>> transient.  I cut my
>> looping teeth on a JamMan which had no undo, and now
>> that I've gone
>> Repeater, I must admit I don't use it too much.  I'm
>> not perfect, I
>> just forget I have it.
>>
>> Mark Sottilaro
>>
>
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