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October 12, 2020 at 11:20 am in reply to: Connecting Two EHX9500 Loop Stations to go from 6-tracks to 12-tracks? #126526vanharteMember
Hi Flick, sorry no I did not try that but could give it a go.
Anyways, I wanted to share a recent video I made of how I use the two EHX9500s I have.
One dedicated to the Verse/Chorus of a song, the other the Bridge/Outro:
Still have a lot of work to get to where I want to be with live looping/performance, but I’m proud of this as an initial milestone.
All the Best, Jackson VanHarte
September 28, 2020 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Connecting Two EHX9500 Loop Stations to go from 6-tracks to 12-tracks? #126485vanharteMemberHey Nate, great video & cover of a great song.
It’s exciting to find someone like-minded who wants to use the EHX9500 stations the same way as me.
I was infuriated by the count in the issue of quantize mode and not getting it to work with MIDI.
This was also a similar issue I was having trying to live loop on Ableton Live.
I use my two stations precisely as you described wanting to, one for the intro/verse/chorus and the other for the bridge.
I soldered the record buttons together going through a patch cable output I installed on the left side of both devices, as well as the play/stop buttons going through a patch cable output on the right side of the devices.
I know that it is a simple circuit on the buttons that any electrician would be able to help you out with so that when one button is pressed, the corresponding/same button on the opposite device is ‘pressed’.
By adding this functionality the 2nd looping station’s ‘clock’ will start and stop at the exact moment you begin recording the 1st layer of the 1st looping station.
It’s also helpful to have the play/stop buttons soldered so that you can stop all layers at once for one bar right before the drop going into a chorus.
Here is a picture of my devices: https://imgur.com/a/hbqXu7o
You will notice that I added some 2×1 clear legos to the volume slides, as well as some bars so that I can mix layers of a song with my toes much easier than without.
Best of luck to you and all your looping & busking ambitions. I hope live looping starts to get pushed into the forefront as people begin to realize all the possibilities it has to offer.
All the Best, Jackson VanHarte
September 27, 2020 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Connecting Two EHX9500 Loop Stations to go from 6-tracks to 12-tracks? #126480vanharteMemberHey Nate! Obviously no one else responded so this is not a common request.
I know there is a way to do it with MIDI cables, and quantize mode.
However for my live performance purposes that was not ideal, and I couldn’t make sense of the user manual cause of my dyslexia.
I ended up voiding the warranties on my loopers and soldering the buttons together so that if you press one, it sends a signal to the other, so both buttons are ‘being pressed at the same time’ effectively.
If you have an electrician friend or someone else who is good at this king of thing, the actual buttons themselves are pretty easy to wire together.
Best of Luck, Jackson
vanharteMemberHaha omg sorry I thought it was like with audio cables requiring an input & output. Will try again now…
vanharteMemberHi Flick thanks heaps for the response.
1. MIDI master cables gos out to in, and vice versa, so yes I believe the cable situation is fine.
2. Red LEDs I’m referring to are underneath the word tempo on the top of the devices.
3. I press new loop and then record button, and then record stop, but it is to no avail.
4. I did not have quantize on, as I was hoping the loop length would remain the same as & in sync with however long the 1st new loop is (which is how I use the 9500 when it’s just one device). I will give it another attempt with quantize on and see how I go…
Thanks! Vanharte
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