Re: Looperlative 1st report

[Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk>]

 >>>This makes me think that Bob and the early testers were not
trying to push the box to its fullest extent.  A quick browse through
Steve Lawson's sound samples with the box confirms this notion for me-
all his stuff is polite, with discrete loops played at deliberate
tempos.  Not much stress on the Looperlative.<<<

Just for the record, the only 'sound sample' that's ever been posted  
by me is the original demo at NAMM, done with a prototype box and  
version 0.5 of the software - the main things that I wast trying to  
get across with that was that it was stereo, and that the layers  
could be manipulated independently with reverse and feedback etc.

Beyond that, the other tracks that I've posted on my myspace page  
that feature the Looperlative are from my new album, which is no more  
designed to test the limitations of the Looperlative than Bob Dylan  
writes songs to test the limits of the acoustic guitar. I can't even  
begin to imagine why someone would write music to do that, if it's  
not just a product demo. The things that I am doing on both the new  
tracks on my MySpace page would have been impossible with my old two  
EDP set up, and obviously all the reverbs etc are now in stereo -  
that's always been the biggest selling point to me...

As for why Andre's not using an LP1 - I can't speak for him, but if  
I'd spent the amount of time working on my EDP skills that he has, I  
wouldn't be in any hurry to switch. It's like asking why Yo Yo Ma  
doesn't play 5 string electric cello. The Echoplex, as has been  
stated many times, does its own bag of tricks, a feature set that  
took a decade to come to maturity, and works phenomenally well. For  
someone like Andre, it would seem mad to sacrifice all those EDP- 
specific elements for a different box at this stage. I'm sure if and  
when the LP1 feature set offers something he can't do with the EDP  
that he wants to do, he'd get one...

As for Torn, I know he's been on the LP forum, and is in touch with Bob.

 >>> I know I'm the odd
man out here as I think there are only a few of us who
are angry at the way it functions in regard to
switching tracks while synced.  I'm only considering
abandoning the Looperlative because I honestly don't
think enough of us want this functionality that it is
worth Bob's time to add it.  Silly to change your
design for a tiny group of users.<<<

Not at all - MIDI Sync has all along been one of Bob's top  
priorities, it's just much harder to develop than relatively simple  
internal processes like feedback, reverse and multiply. As Bob has  
posted on the forum, it's at the very top of his programming priority  
list, and it just depends on whether you can be bothered to stick  
around long enough to see it come to fruition. If not, someone else  
gets to jump the queue for a LP1, if you do, maybe you'll find that  
the LP1 is the answer to your looping prayers after all... ;o)

Steve
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