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Re: Repeater questions



> John Tidwell wrote... In the Repeater manual, on the page showing midi 
>cc assignments, there is a function called UNFOLD LOOP. Can anyone 
>explain what this is?

This intrigues me as well...???

> Is anyone else besides me trying to figure out how to connect 8 or more 
>exp. pedals to this thing? 

The Paia MIDI Brain kit looks pretty promising. They have 2 
configurations: One has 8 ExPed inputs... the other has 8 finger pads 
allowing the finger drummer to trigger whatever 8 items they please... 
I've thought about putting the finger pads/triggers into a guitar body so 
I could tap beats whenever I got the urge... Now if you add a Kurzweill 
Even Station you're getting into some serious hairbrained midi mayhem 
here...

http://209.52.185.39/midibrn.htm

The more I think of this the more awesome it seems! One for the floor so 
you get 8 expeds and another in the geetar for finger drumming! WOW! Get 
your soldering irons out gang...

> Are you guys at Electrix going to be generous with the exp pedal inputs 
>on your midi foot controller? I'm sure a lot of folks will want to use 
>pedals for the track volumes & panning.

Probably doubtful, but we can hope eh? The Roland FC-200 has 8 expression 
pedal inputs, but I believe they are hard coded with specific cc values... 
meaning that for something like the Waldorf 4-pole your stuck cause that 
baby's hard coded as well.

There always the Peavey PC 1600x Midi controller with 16 faders and 16 
buttons all assignable to various midi functions. It also has inputs for 
exped and footswitch control, but not in the quantities we're talking...(4 
and up) The good thing is that you can assign the pedal or footswitch to 
control MULTIPLE midi events with different scaling etc. all in all, a 
very powerful tabletop tool. 

http://www.peavey.com/mi/pc_1600x.html

I'm finding that if I'm gonna use midi tweakers on the floor OR table, I 
usually want to scale them to fine tune things. If the controller is not 
scalable, you lose fair amount of control. Many modules allow you to do 
the scaling in their box, but it's nice (and I believe more convenient) to 
be able to do it from the controller as well.

Best,
-Miko