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Re: EDP MIDI Problems?/Repeater As A Live Looper
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 12:09 PM, soam wrote:
>
> I'm also thinking about the Electrix Repeater, but how good is it as a
> Live Looper?
People have complained about it, but I find the Repeater to be an
excellent live looper due to it's excellent handling of incoming MIDI
clock. It has a few odd bugs (that will never be fixed) but mostly
I've found work-a-rounds for all of them or they don't effect the way I
use it. If you're trying to delete a track and you accedently hit stop
WATCH OUT! The Repeater will freak out and think the tempo is twice
what the MIDI clock actually is.
> Could I hook up a Behringer MIDI Foot Controller for example and
> control Pitch, Speed, and Jump between tracks live?
Yes indeed.
>
> I'm also wondering if I can layer parts over one loop right away with
> the Repeater like I can with my Line6 Pedal?
Once you've defined your loop length, you have to go back into record
to start adding. The EDP let's you define loop length by hitting
overdub so you're seamlessly blending new with old. Nice trick. The
way I get around this is by first recording a blank loop on the
Repeater (which you can do before a show due to the non volitile loop
memory) and then having it start when I hit play on my drum machine.
Viola, seamless loop. However, there is a slight bump in volume at the
loop point, but I can only hear this if I'm playing a featureless
drone, and even then it's pretty mild.
I've got some live looping Repeater samples at
http://www.zerocrossing.net/mp3s/