Re: Re: Just ordered new instrument

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 2/24/12 10:08 AM, Matt Davignon wrote:
> chromatic and diatonic scales, so that one could play the turntable as
> a melodic instrument by dragging the needle across the grooves.
This was the impetus for me having Bob add the 'mellotron' effect to the
Looperlative LP-1.     Like a typical sampler, the samples are not 
stretched
(so tuning a sample down, elongates it and vice versa)  but I figured out
an interesting work around to this by making sure that I give each
loop a transient at it's start.

In this way,  I make samples that are long with one sustaining pitch
and created a preset combination to manipulate it,  that goes:

1)  retrigger loop  (in this way, I get the transient, or ersatz 'click' 
of an organ upon triggering)
2)  change pitch to minor 3rd  (or whatever)

I now have a set of three banks on my FCB 1010 footcontroller that
has whatever three musical scales I'm obsessed with mapped to the
first 8 midi commands.

Currently,  I have    good old Dorian,   Lydian b7    and
Bhairav (a beautiful and palindromic Indian Rag that goes: 1 b2 nat3 4 5 
b6 nat7 8va)
programmed.

Rick Walker