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Re: EWI looping clip posted
I love it, Per...I think you should play that thing all of the time. Saves
on reeds, right? The articulation is really nice.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:55 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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