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Re: Electrix MoFX : Is it worth it?



Oh, this is what replaced the moFX:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEUSX:IT&item=190317399841

Tiny, easy to midi or expression pedal control and a lot more
flexible.  All time based perimeters sync to MIDI clock. One of the
casualties of the great computer revolution though so now it's up on
the ebay chopping block.  It's probably going to fund the new
FXpansion Synthsquad instrument.

Mark

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jeff Duke<jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:
> i am willing to give the Vortex a good home!
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dennis Moser
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Electrix MoFX : Is it worth it?
> Okay ...thanks all, it sounds like there is luke-warm to enthusiastic
> response to the Electrix MoFX ... 2-U is okay for me since I only use a 
>pair
> of 4U Gator bags these days (anyone want a Lexicon Vortex? I'm cutting 
>back
> ... ) so there is room. I'm moving in the direction of MIDI-control or 
>foot
> pedal-control only so that won't be an issue either (aside from the
> continuing learning curve I am having with MIDI).
>
> Now I just need to divy up my pennies ... :)
>
> Dennis
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dennis,
>>
>> I have to go on record and say that I love the
>> Electrix MoFX.
>>
>> Just like the Electrix Repeater (which is the only unit on earth that
>> allows one to be able to
>> make any sampled sound a chromatic instrument with sample and tempo
>> stretching)
>> it does a couple of things better than almost anything out there.
>>
>> The effects in the MoFX  are fairly mundane, but the use of the drum
>> machine styled buttons
>> and the ability to tempo drive the effects using a MIDI interface,  sets
>> it apart from almost anything else I can think of.
>>
>> The fact that the large drum machine styled 'play' button can either 
>have
>> a positive or a negative function (in other words it can turn the 
>effect on
>> when you use it momentarily or turn the effect off depending on how you 
>set
>> it)
>> is just wonderful.
>>
>> Ways,  I use it are putting small amounts of distortion on it, narrowing
>> the bandwidth, and then suddenly bringing in the
>> full unadulterated sound at precise rhythmic
>> moments...............fantastic for real time production ideas in things
>> like
>> hip hop and drum and bass.
>>
>> ........setting up square wave tremelos at very high and rhythmically
>> specific rates (32nd notes, etc.)  so that you can
>> make things 'trill' at appropriate rhythmical places...............then
>> being able to change the rates with which the square wave tremelos
>> work.
>>
>> All of these things are fantastic and really useful for resampling and
>> relooping.
>>
>> One of my favorite set ups now,  uses one DL4 before my effects pedals 
>to
>> loop a pure instrument sound
>> then pass it through whatever effects (including the MoFX and the Filter
>> Factory which works similarly)
>> then putting a second DL4 on the back side of that to be able to loop 
>the
>> 'effected sounds'
>> then running all of it into my little VOX  and ROLAND battery powered
>> guitar and bass amps,
>> micing it all and then running it through the Looperlative LP-1  as a
>> final way of slicing, dicing and arrangeing
>> the piece of music.
>>
>> I would be bereft if I lost the unit.
>>
>> My only regret about the Electrix stuff is that it takes up two rack
>> spaces each and
>> it makes it unsuitable for me to tour with it.
>>
>> I always take an extra 6 space rack with me to my gigs with the 
>Electrix,
>> Repeater, Filter Factory and MoFX
>> all hooked up but it's too much shit to take to a festival
>> so most people in the looping community have never seen me use this 
>setup.
>>
>> It's a bitchen one and I can see why a lot of people have gone the 
>Plogue
>> Bidule route with laptops to get this kind
>> of flexibility,  musically.
>>
>> Yeah,  I vote THUMBS UP on all that Electrix Gear.
>> I was set up to have a product endorsement if they had ever rereleased 
>and
>> I was bummed BIG TIME when they tanked.
>>
>> LONG LIVE ELECTRIX!!!!
>>
>
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