Re: Re: Cool JamMan tricks

[buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)]

><<For me the major drop-off with the JamMan is that you can't loop in
>delay mode and then play over the loop like you can in loop mode - ie.
>in delay mode there's no way of stopping what you play adding to the
>loop.
>>>
>
>Yes but you can "delay mode" in "loop mode" by initiating a midi fade 
>while in
>"record mode" of "loop mode" after your in/out loop points (ie: loop 
>length)
>have been set. Got it? ;-). - Paul

But with only 3 settings instead of 16, which is just
silly.  I can't imagine why the Jamman's MIDI setup
got limited that way.  The only good reason not to
use delay mode seems to be for having multiple loops,
but I finally played around with that yesterday (I've
been using delay mode for five or six months now without
really ever trying the others), and the fact that every
time you switch loops you drop out of layer mode pretty
much kills it for me... you _have_ to tap in a little
after switching loops... so the idea of smoothly building
up loops one after the other (i.e. switching loops every
measure) doesn't work.

Of course, I'm _layer-mode-centric_ in my use of the Jamman,
which is perhaps not how it was intended.  But here I'm
trying to use it in the "jamming" sense, not the textured-layering
sense... I want to put down the same riff in three different
loops, and then go back through and add a bass-line to each one.
So I have to add the bass-line, switch, _wait_ a loop, add the
bass-line, etc.  To the listener, they hear the bass line stop
and start and stop and start, and it just obviously doesn't
work.  Note that the _first_ time you switch to a loop, it
does "stay" in layer mode... that is... it _was_ intended for
you to be easily able to immediately add in sound the first
time you switch to a loop, because otherwise you'd have to
wait in silence.  The asymmetry between the first time and
the other times bothers me, and gets in the way musically.

[This was all done in phrased-loop mode, but I assume
the functionality is the same in punch-in loop mode.]

Sean Barrett