Re: LP-1?

[Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>]

On May 11, 2012, at 8:03 AM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

>>> " Continuous pedals are arguably overkill and less simple to control 
>>> though I could see wanting a knob somewhere to adjust the middle 
>>> value."
> 
> Whaa???? even an archaic piece fo gear like the EDP (just kidding)  can 
> benefit greatly from a variable expression pedal. I am completely tied 
> to using these for many applications , but its much more easy to control 
> loop fades manually in this way, erase sections of a loop,and also edit 
> mistakes with more pinpoint accuracy simply by quickly rocking the pedal 
> back to 0% over the offending note and then bring it quickly back to 
> 100%. Another interesting effect that can be achieved is massive deep 
> tremolo effects. I'll create a track of over dubbed drone notes and the 
> jerk my expression pedal back and forth in tempo to create radical trem 
> sounds or choppy glitchy  deconstruction's of the loop. I know I've 
> spewed about this before, but if you have a device with cc control you 
> are missing out on a lot of versatility by not using it. expression 
> pedals ad to your , er, a ,well... Expression!

I think this is more about the difficulty depending on the expression 
pedal of hitting useful intermediate values. For moving between 0% and 
100% they are great. And this could certainly vary with the pedal.

Mark