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Re: finger controller and Repeater melodic loop manipulation
Rick i am interested go ahead and send it to me!
cheers
Luis
--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> I see that M-Audio has a new controller called a
> Trigger Finger which has 16
> pads and several knobs and sliders.
>
> I want one badly because it is small and lightweight
> and has the equivalent
> of two octaves of modal triggering capabilities
> which in my harmonically limited universe is my idea
> of a good time.
>
> I used to use my Roland Octapad as what I called a
> modal log drum and I
> loaded up several different
> world music scales from C to C into it so that I
> could trigger my old Akai
> S950 sampler......voila, a modal
> electronic baliphone with no wrong notes (as long as
> you don't
> modulate...............lol).
>
> I've been using my Octapad again to control my
> Repeater loops melodically.
> I love doing this with a complex timbral
> loop like a brass candy dish, stuck and controlled
> by overtone comb filter
> manipulations using the chamber of the mouth. The
> portamento effect when
> going between intervallically disparate notes is so
> cool using this
> technique and I love taking a found object and
> suddenly recontextualizing
> it into a tuned and playable musical instrument.
>
> Again, credit where credit is due (which seems to be
> my spiritual lesson and
> work for this week), my brother
> Bill is the person who hipped me to this technique
> and I think he does it as
> well as anyone I've seen.
>
> I especially love how he uses a sequencer on his
> midi guitar to drive octave
> and fifth jumps on his Repeater loops.
> If anyone wants to hear the results of a very cool
> experiment that Bill did
> using me, a kanjira and a Bansuri bamboo
> flute as his guinea pigs let me know and I'll e-mail
> it to you off list.
>
> I think it is too hefty to post at L.D. although I'm
> a little murky on the
> accuracy of that statement.
>
>
www.luis-angulo.com
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