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it does indeed work on bass, synth, drums, etc.
The best flanger is going to be subjective – do you prefer analog delay chips or digital ones? The two types have very different flanging characteristics. In my opinion, probably the best flanger is the Moog Clusterflux, although it’s a bit pricy.CryabetesParticipantthat and loading the initial tempo in at the max speed of my sampler (300BPM) is the basic gist, yep. 20BPM is the lowest speed I’ve got on the sampler, so it’s like.. 1/15th the speed? Should be an interesting experiment. I’ll try it with a decidedly smaller card/shorter loop so i’m not waiting around a full day, but yeah. I’ll let you know how it goes, if the 2880 truncates it or glitches or if it just works.
CryabetesParticipantAight so I crunched some numbers
If you’d get a midi time clock source, you could sync it to the 2880 and then drop the BPM to lengthen loop. I’m not sure if that would bitcrush the audio or out-and-out break the loop. BUT
a 64 minute loop recorded at 300BPM, when dropped to 20BPM would end up being 960 minutes (16 hours) of loop-time. I’ll test this for you the next time the band I use the 2880 with practises.CryabetesParticipantmind if I inquire as to the scope of the overdubbing? Like, what exactly are you aiming to do?
CryabetesParticipantso why not use something like Max/MSP and some webcams or light sensors to trigger different loops or samples? it’d be aleatoric in the sense that you’d have different samples triggered based on different sensors and still controlled/”in key” if you loaded in your own samples.
CryabetesParticipanthm. i think you may be overestimating people’s attention spans. I mean, a large chunk have trouble listening to a 45 minute album all the way through.
CryabetesParticipantno, the largest disk size the 2880 can take is 2GB; However, that provides 64 minutes/track of looping time. That’s not enough?
CryabetesParticipantre: USA – probably not, unless there’s an electric store still open where you’re going to be visiting.
CryabetesParticipantit is indeed possible. Actually, you wouldn’t even need the ‘quantize’ function on to do that, then. Basically whichever device you were using for a master clock, you’d just lower the tempo ’til it you’re where you want to be on the 2880. I mean, there’ll still be steps, but rather than the 1/12th steps, you’d have steps based on a ratio of your initial tempo to your variant tempo.
I uh, actually made a simple excel spreadsheet for this, if you want a copy. just shoot me a PM with an email address of where to send this.
CryabetesParticipantno worries, you’re just looking to have something that’ll set up the tempo in a more graduated fashion (or at least, with a visible BPM readout), rather than in semitones/slider position, yeah?
Any of the Korg Electribes would (and, in addition, have tap tempo), as would the Boss DR-202, The Korg KP2 & KP3 Kaoss Pads, and many mid-level synthesizers like the Roland Juno-Di. The cheapest option of these will probably be the Korg ER1 electribe (drums) or EA1 electribe (synth) at around $80-120 on ebay.
To hook them up, simply attach a midi cable from the output of the device you want to use the clock of to the midi in of the 2880, power both up, and press the ‘Ext Clock’ and ‘Quantize’ buttons on the 2880. You won’t need any audio signal from the master clock source being output, although most of the options I named above have some pretty nifty sounds and features (for instance, the KP2/3 can be used as effects boxes or samplers as well as clock sources, while the Korg Electribes can make some nice textures that’ll sync up with the audio).
CryabetesParticipantwhy not just use a midi controller for it?
CryabetesParticipantyep. aim for 1GB for best results, or if your loops are generally under 24 minutes of total material (so about 4 min per track), you can get by with 128mb cards.
CryabetesParticipantYou’d need a SD-to-CF card adapter and I’ve had poor luck using things near the top of the size limit (2GB) – rarely they work, typically they glitch.
CryabetesParticipantit’s possible if you pick up a holy grail to use with your 44 magnum
CryabetesParticipantI’m sure there are settings that would sound similar, but nothing that’ll give you the “knock”/”pop” sound from the Shamisen.
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