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Re: EWI looping clip posted



Very expressive !
I like it very much, Per. Ewi sound is very interesting !.
fabio 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:55 PM
Subject: EWI looping clip posted


> http://www.looproom.com/audio/ewi_jam_nov2006.mp3
> If anyone should be interested...
> 
> Musically:
> Just jamming with myself into a long loop. No defined tempo, key or  
> chord structure. Only goofing around, reacting to sound and gestures,  
> layering whatever comes into my mind.
> 
> Technically:
> Using the EWI4000s to play samples lifted off the tape loops of the  
> original mellotrones MK2 and M300. Oh, there's one exception, the  
> trumpet sound which I picked from the Logic default sample library  
> (and tweaked a lot). The sound unit you hear is my Powerbook laptop  
> recorded straight from the stereo output. On the powerbook I used  
> Logic and its sampler EXS24, which by the way is an excellent sampler  
> for EWI playing because it lets you custom the sound patches to  
> react, soundwise, to all MIDI data sent out from the EWI when you are  
> playing it. I reworked all the mellotrone sample patches - and the  
> trumpet patch - to fit my personal playing style, which I guess is  
> something you have to do to feel ok with playing an EWI. The looper  
> used was Expert Sleepers AU plug-in Augustus Loop. The ticking sound  
> noise you hear (that sounds a bit like a damaged vinyl disk) is  
> caused by a the Pluggo plug-in "SpeedShifter" (Cycling74). I love the  
> undertones SpeedShifter can add so I can live with those artifacts.
> 
> Because I can't find any other sampler, than the EXS24, to match the  
> sensitivity of the EWI I have been using the G4 Powerbook a lot for  
> some days now and I must say I'm amazed how efficient it is with  
> Logic and the Cycling74 plug-ins! When I bought Pluggo  I was mainly  
> using them on a dual G5 and had a lot of issues. The good guys at  
> Cyclinig74 tried to help me out but they had a hard time since they  
> didn't even have a G5 machine to troubleshoot their software on. So  
> for some years I have been living with the false assumption that  
> Cycling74 software is unstable and risky to use. But in fact  
> Cycling74 stuff rocks on a G4 powerbook that should be "a slow  
> laptop" compared to the new machines (so does Logic).
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> http://www.myspace.com/looproom
> 
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