Re: "Instrument" vs "Effect"

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

> --- a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> ....and I thought you'd finished this thread, Mark
>> ;-)

On 12 sep 2006, at 18.46, mark sottilaro wrote:
> I tried to get out but they keep pulling me back!


I also tried to get out, ever since I started this thread some three  
weeks ago, but now I too just got pulled back again. Yesterday Kid  
Beyond was here for two gigs and we met up at my place for comparing  
looping rigs and commit ourselves to associated nerdy activities. A  
button on my FCB1010 was dead and it just dawned on me that "My FCB  
really IS an Instrument"! A simple MIDI foot controller, but the way  
I use it is to transpose the pitch according to a scale and I can't  
really say that I'm improvising more melodies with my hand  
instruments than by transposing my caught audio with those foot  
pedals. Feet, hands and wind intonation has simply become parts of  
the same "looping instrument" (before I learned to play it I used to  
call it "my looping rig").

And then today I finally found a new FCB1010 in music store. It  
appears Andy was right; my MIDI Sysex files from the five years old  
pedal can not be read by this new one. Oh The Crap!!! Need to tap  
dance for many hours to set up the new pedal... or eventually I may  
download some XP software to edit it? (will check with the FCB Users  
List area in a moment)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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