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Re: the FRONTMANULATOR and drum machines that improvise



I loop for humor.

:)

c

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:08 AM
Subject: the FRONTMANULATOR and drum machines that improvise


>
> Neil Goldstein wrote:
>
> "Wasn't there the Oberheim Drummer that kinda did that?"
>
>
> There might have been Neil,  but nothing compared to the FRONTMANULATOR
that
> I developed
> for EMU systems in the mid 1980's.
>
> They sampled my voice for this ground breaking piece of equipment that
could
> interact with even the most
> unruly of audiences:
>
> "What a beautiful audience we have hear in ____"
> ____San Francisco
> ____ Boston
> ____New York
> ____Tehachipi
> etc. etc.
>
> "This next song is for the lovely ladies in the audience"
>
> "Please don't spill beer on the guitarists footpedals"
>
> "This is a loving tribute cover of ________"
> ________Abba
> ________the Beatles
> ________the Rolling Stones
> ________Lothar and the Hand People
>
> "Please put that gun down, sir, you've just had a little too much to
drink"
>
> "We don't know Freebird, sorry, but you might enjoy this amusing Alvin 
>and
> the Chipmunks number"
>
> and other appropriate phrases.
>
> It is too bad that EMU pulled the plug on this first interactive, 
>sampling
> machine.................oh well.
>
> yours,  Rick  "Elvis has left the building"  Walker
>
>
>