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Re: EDP more loops/feedback issues
Yes i gotcha now great tips and valuable info man
thank you!!
cheers
Luis
--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have
> >> ran into the
> >> problem you describe many times. What I do is to
> >> make sure I always
> >> have the feedback function assigned to that
> actual
> >> expression pedal
> >> in at least one patch with an "harmless" function
> -
> >> like for example
> >> Overdub. If I don't play anything I can press a
> >> short Overdub only to
> >> recall the patch that has feedback assigned to
> the
> >> expression pedal.
>
>
> On 5 okt 2006, at 08.33, L.A. Angulo wrote:
>
> > so if i understand correctly you assign a value of
> 127
> > on the overdub button for example and press it
> shortly
> > to reset the controller?
>
> No. I'm talking about the FCB "PADS" assignment of
> particular FCB
> PATCHES.
>
> When I press my foot at the overdub button the FCB
> is doing two
> things: (1) Sending the MIDI Note for "Overdub" and
> (2) recalling the
> pad assignments of that patch (since you call up a
> patch by pressing
> a button),
>
> In my EDP rig I have different functions assigned to
> expression pedal
> 2 in different patches. But since I know that when I
> press the undo
> button I will also recall a patch that is using
> expression pedal 2
> for EDP Feedback. So if I recently called up a patch
> where I the
> expression is used pedal for something different
> (like for example
> tweaking the tempo division of the MIDI Clock beat
> sync LFO of my
> filterbank) and suddenly discover that "oh, shit - I
> forgot the EDP
> Feedback at 88 % and now all my music is
> vanishing!!!! HILFE -
> HILFE!" ...he, he... what I can do in that
> situation is to quickly
> press undo two times (on/off) without playing
> anything, only to make
> the expression pedal 2 start sending the EDP
> Feedback data instead of
> the Filterbank data. Then I push down the toe to
> maximize feedback
> and get back to whatever I was doing.
>
> >
> >> Another strategy I have developed to stay out of
> >> such trouble, and
> >> also to be able to loop faster and more fluently,
> is
> >> to double up
> >> most function over many controller buttons.
> >> Especially the feedback
> >> functions. I like to have both expression pedals
> and
> >> twistable knobs
> >> or faders assigned to the same parameter. Then I
> can
> >> simply reach for
> >> the most immediate way to achieve feedback or
> >> whatever.
> >
> > this sounds cool,but it could create problems as
> > well...donīt know if i am understanding it right
> could
> > you give me a more specific example?
>
>
> Ok. Three examples:
> (1) Let's take that catastrophe scenario from
> above. I have a little
> hand mixer beside the laptop (Faderfox) and some of
> the faders and
> knobs are sending the same MIDI cc data that the FCB
> expression pedal
> does send. So I can use either the pedal or a knob
> or a fader.
>
> (2) A typical example would be if I'm working in a
> FCB BANK where I
> have no patch button ("pad", as the FCB manual calls
> them) that
> brings up the particular MIDI cc I want for the
> expression pedal.
> Then I simply reach out a hand and twist a knob -
> because that knob
> is always sending this particular CC data.
>
> (3) In Mobius there are many times when I'm working
> on one track (the
> selected track, equals one EDP in a multi EDP rig)
> and find that I
> want to adjust feedback of a loop playing on a
> different track
> (another EDP). Then it's handy to have hardware
> knobs directly
> addressing feedback (and other functions) directly
> on different tracks.
>
> In Mobius there are both Feedback and Secondary
> Feedback and I like
> to set it up to use them both. The Secondary
> Feedback can have any
> setting because it only kicks in when loops are in
> Overdub, Multiply,
> Substitute etc mode. The normal Feedback is usually
> set to 100 % and
> I use it for fade outs or for manually creating
> volume patterns in
> loops.
>
> All the best
>
> per
>
>
>
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