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Re: electrix starting again?
Cheers to 'legacy' Electrix products!
My EQ Killer has come out of the closet recently to do duty as a lowly
phono preamp, and then i realized i can radically eq some vinyl and
resample.
My Filter Queen is needing a trip to Condor Electronics for service, and
then it will get pressed back into duty.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Rick Walker wrote:
> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Ruelle Benoit wrote:
>>
>> Why would you buy electrix? Does this gives you some intelectual
>> rights on the legacy products?
>
> I don't know about the intellectual rights on legacy products, but I,
> personally, love the Electrix Repeater.
> Though more sophisticated (and reliable) loopers now exist on the
> market it does one thing that no
> other hardware looper does and that is you can control the speed of
> the loop without changing pitch and
> you can repitch the loop without changing it's speed.
>
> As a found sound artist this opens up a world of possibilities for me.
> It means I can hit a brass candy dish
> with my thumb, manipulate the overtones in a rhythmic ostinato with
> my mouth held close to the dish
> and then can control this sound chromatically over three octaves (one
> up and two down).
>
> That means that every single found object I use can be
> recontextualized as a chromatic instrument
> with the use of a wind controller (I use a WX-5 Yamaha wind
> controller, a keyboard or an old
> Roland Pad80)
>
> When my unit gave up the ghost after many years, my brother,
> graciously gave me his old unit to use.
> I'm about to put it back into my performance rig after a few years
> apart. I'm very stoked about that.
>
> Rick Walker
>
> ps I also have and love their Filter Factory, the MoFx and the Warp
> Factory (vocoder)
> which are all very saliently cool because you can use them in very
> rhythmic ways with midi sync and with drum machine
> like buttons that control whether you are turning the effect on or
> turning it off in a rhythmic fashion.