------------------------------ Loopers-Delight-d Digest Volume 97 : Issue 144 Today's Topics: RE: JamMan memory problems, Part 2 [ "Hogan, Greg" ] Jamman Upgrade [ Mike Artemenko ] My GT-5 and other things [ jlack@auran.com (Jamie Lack) ] Re: My GT-5 and other things [ Rik Elswit ] Re: looping images [ Kim Flint ] Re: looping images [ "T.W. Hartnett" ] Re: looping images [ Kim Flint ] univox ec 80 a [ "Peter G. Miller" ] greets [ Louis Collier Hyams ] Max email list [ "Matt McCabe" ] Administrivia: Looper's Delight **************** Please send posts to: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Don't send them to the digest! To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Loopers-Delight digest version, send email with "subscribe" (or "unsubscribe") in both the subject and the body, with no signature files, to: Loopers-Delight-d-request@annihilist.com To subscribe/unsubscribe to the real Loopers-Delight list, send email with "subscribe" (or "unsubscribe") in both the subject and the body, with no signature files, to: Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com Check the web page for archives and lots of other goodies! http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html Your humble list maintainer, Kim Flint kflint@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:24:00 -0400 From: "Hogan, Greg" To: Loopers-Delight Subject: RE: JamMan memory problems, Part 2 Message-Id: <9708261436.AA18952@beryllium.lexicon.com> I can provide the diagnostic information for the JAMMAN and VORTEX. Where shall I send it? Best regards, Greg Hogan Lexicon Customer Service Phone 617-280-0372 FAX 617-280-0499 email:ghogan@lexicon.com ---------- From: Loopers-Delight[SMTP:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 1997 10:12 AM To: Loopers-Delight Subject: RE: JamMan memory problems, Part 2 ---------------------------------------------------- At 9:50 AM -0400 8/20/97, Hogan, Greg wrote: >Dear Kim, > >You are welcome to place this diagnostic anywhere you'd like. Well, that's a dangerous request...... presumably the jamman has a more complete diagnostics test. Could we get the whole thing for the web site? thanks, kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:11:23 -0500 From: Mike Artemenko To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Jamman Upgrade Message-ID: <3402F21B.7E98@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anybody heard the latest on the Jamman EPROM upgrade? Is it still happening? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 18:41:03 +0200 From: Leonardo Cavallo To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Art nightbass question Message-ID: <19970826164100953.AAB217@Default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all Someone owns a SGX Nightbass effects processor? I'd like to know if my Studio Edition model behaviour is normal: when the input signal on the 3 leds indicator clips the sound fades away for a few seconds.... Is it normal for the unit? If so, how do you manage absence of sound while gigging?? thanks leo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:31:37 +1000 From: jlack@auran.com (Jamie Lack) To: "'Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com'" Subject: My GT-5 and other things Message-ID: <01BCB2ED.8D1B4860@JLACK> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was pleased to hear of the looping ability of the GT-5 on this digest. When I bought the thing many months back I was looking for something to provide a really broad sonic canvas for my guitar, to compose soundtracks for my animations. It has proved to be great for this, especially if you use other instruments in conjunction. I am a little dissapointed with the short delay time though. Could any other GT-5 owners recommend a fairly low cost addition to extend the looping capabilities. BTW I am fairly new to this stuff. Something I have been wondering. Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 track. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Rik Elswit To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: My GT-5 and other things Message-Id: <199708271551.IAA14569@well.com> "Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 track." Steinberg (the Cubase people) has a program called X-Pose, which lets you sequence stills and video clips via MIDI. It's PowerMac native, and uses Quicktime. I'm not sure if there's a Windows version. Steinberg is at (818) 993-4091. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:37:41 -0700 From: Kim Flint To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jamie Lack said: >Something I have been wondering. >Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? >The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. >I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 >track. I think that's a very interesting direction. I don't do anything like it myself, but being a media-saturated member of the mtv generation, putting image and music together seems like a perfectly natural thing to do. Extending looping concepts to video and animation could have some very interesting results, I'd love to hear what you're thinking along those lines. medialooping, I guess we might call it. Some day, there may even be devices to do just that.....to the machine, audio and video are just data. looping or manipulating one or the other is the same, just a question of processing power. Well within the reach of current technology actually. the interface and function set are more the question... I'm really interested in the idea of performance video. It seems possible, but I never see anyone really doing it. I saw a band a few years ago with a video artist as a band member. The music was a fascinating sort of punkish art/prog rock with this amazing video background. All performed right along with the music. It was fascinating. Naturally it was too good to be true, so they broke up. I really thought I'd see a lot more of that sort of mix since, but I've never seen anything like it again. video alongside the music, sure, but never created as an actual part of the performance. Anybody doing that? kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 97 12:23:31 -0000 From: "T.W. Hartnett" To: "Looper's Delight" Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: <199708271720.KAA19664@scv1.apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >I'm really interested in the idea of performance video. It seems possible, >but I never see anyone really doing it. I saw a band a few years ago with a >video artist as a band member. The music was a fascinating sort of punkish >art/prog rock with this amazing video background. All performed right along >with the music. It was fascinating. Naturally it was too good to be true, >so they broke up. I really thought I'd see a lot more of that sort of mix >since, but I've never seen anything like it again. video alongside the >music, sure, but never created as an actual part of the performance. >Anybody doing that? There's a guy in town (Austin, noted home of retarded blues guitarists) who has put together a neat setup using super-8 projectors and slide machines. Usually there will be two slide projectors and three film projectors, set up on a platform in the middle of the club. He's got a large library of film loops that he's scavanged from garage sales over the years that he'll feed in and superimpose as the mood strikes him, while more experimental bands play. The coolest effect I saw was when Ed Hall (a local art-punk trio) came out on stage, wearing only shorts, painted in day-glo body paint. There were black lights next to their monitors, so they looked really unearthly. Luke (the film guy) had found some footage of an oilwell fire, and had projected this three times, in slow motion, aimed so that each of the band members appeared to be on fire. Breathtaking, and on the cheap. He's worked with various local bands that strike his fancy (The Flying Saucers, Orange Mothers, Ed Hall, Poi Dog Pondering, Sixteen Deluxe, and so on). I think the limiting factor is the size of the club--unless it holds at least 500 people, there's not really enough room to set everything up without cutting into the crowd space. A few years ago I saw an LA Band, Chalk Circle, and they were using a portable projection TV system hooked up to a VCR. They also had a fog machine, and the projector would sometimes be aimed out over the audience. When the fog achieved sufficient density, the projection beam would become visible, in the form of long. rapidly moving beams of light. They didn't make any attempt to synchronize the video with what they played, just loaded up a VHS tape with interesting images and let it fly. Travis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:59:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Neilson To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: <199708272059.QAA06302@echonyc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Jamie Lack said: > >Something I have been wondering. > >Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? > >The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. > >I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 > >track. > I think Emergency Broadcast Network actually uses a video sampler in their performances, to trigger short clips or loops either manually or in response to musical cues. At one point there was a little demo version of this kind of sampler floating around the net. ----------------------- Tear Along Dotted Line ----------------------- John Neilson www.mixup.com jneil@mixup.com "a site for sore ears" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:27:22 -0700 From: Kim Flint To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Cc: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970827212722.008a577c@pop.chromatic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:59 PM 8/27/97 -0400, John Neilson wrote: >> >> Jamie Lack said: >> >Something I have been wondering. >> >Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? >> >The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. >> >I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 >> >track. >> >I think Emergency Broadcast Network actually uses a video sampler in >their performances, to trigger short clips or loops either manually or >in response to musical cues. > >At one point there was a little demo version of this kind of sampler >floating around the net. Yeah, I was going to mention them, but I missed their show when they were in town so I don't know for sure how it comes off in the performance. A friend of mine had the impression that they had things pretty rigidly sequenced to their music. That's probably fine for their style, but I wonder about the possiblities of using broadcasting equipment like they do for a more improvised approach. Actually, EBN might be doing more of this by now, I haven't checked up on them in a while. It seemed like they were very interested in the idea when I read an interview a couple years ago. kim ________________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 Mpact System Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:06:02 -0700 From: "Peter G. Miller" To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: univox ec 80 a Message-ID: <3405073A.6814@nbnet.nb.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kim I think I have my tape cartridge problem solved. I've had replies to this query from all over ! Turns out a company in Chatanooga TN, has some in stock. Also I found another unit by accident today. it is a univox SM350. ( a little newer than the other unit probably 1968 of so.) In any event thanks for you interest. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:59:22 -0400 From: verner@infinitesound.com To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Drifting Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970827205922.0069a580@infinitesound.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kim has mentioned that the Plex upgrade improves a stereo configuration - keeps the 2 Plexs locked together better. However, you for "ambient" folks that have 2 Plexs (and haven't upgraded), try this - record a nice thick abstract loop and let it do its thing for 1/2 an hour or so. The drifting is incredibly beautiful! It actually makes the loop come alive, breathe and evolve all by itself. Check it out. I'm going to miss this when I get the upgrade. J. Arif Verner Infinite Sound Studio Ithaca, New York http://www.infinitesound.com "After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 01:17:17 -0500 From: John Pollock To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: Can somebody check some sounds? Message-id: <340274ED.4989@delphi.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Man Himself wrote: > > Hello all -- > > I'm looking for a few people to test some sound files I'm attempting to > upload onto my web site. What I need are people who can download files > in AU format. > > The files are at http://shoko.calarts.edu/~altruist/sounds.html > > Each file contains much loopage, and is in the 1000K neighborhood. > > If there are any problems or anomalies, please mail me and let me know. > Thanks very much for your help. Andre, #1 worked fine for me with MSIE 3.01/W95, and I like it, too. Thanks for sharing. :-) This is a gentle nudge for the rest of you with Web sites-- please put some of your music on them? I've visited just about every site listed in the World Wide Directory of Loop Artists, and downloaded at least some music from every site that offers it. I can't promise I'll like it, but I do promise to listen... John mailto:johnpollock@delphi.com http://people.delphi.com/johnpollock (Troubador Tech) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:52:17 -0700 From: Kim Flint To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Cc: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: Drifting Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970828025217.00878bd4@pop.chromatic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" One particular slightly aged stadium rock star wanted to know if we could set up a pedal to control the amount that stereo unsynced loops went out of phase! Do you see why this is so hard? Anyway, you can probably retain your clock drifting experiences on the upgrade by leaving the brothersync cable out and setting the sync to "off" like you have it now. That way, the stereo units will start and stop the loop record at the same time by the midi command, but will have no other points of reference to each other. So they will naturally drift apart. ...and no I'm not going to make a pedal to control it. But for those interested in loop abuse, try this: Play a loop from a sequencer with midi clock out. (percussion is particularly fun, .) Run this loop into the echoplex, and record a loop of it, synced to the midi clock. You now have the original loop and the echoplex loop running next to each other, which is probably not something you would normally do. Because the timing resolutions of the sequencer, the plex, and midi clock are not infinitely accurate, the phase relationship between the audio waveforms of the two will be slightly different each time through the loop. So the sound changes each time! Vary the mix between the two to change the amount of the effect. We've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out ways to improve upon this situation and make it go away, but at the same time I think it sounds pretty cool. Yet another way to breath new life into that old drum machine..... kim At 08:59 PM 8/27/97 -0400, verner@infinitesound.com wrote: >Kim has mentioned that the Plex upgrade improves a stereo configuration - >keeps the 2 Plexs locked together better. > >However, you for "ambient" folks that have 2 Plexs (and haven't upgraded), >try this - record a nice thick abstract loop and let it do its thing for >1/2 an hour or so. > >The drifting is incredibly beautiful! It actually makes the loop come >alive, breathe and evolve all by itself. Check it out. > >I'm going to miss this when I get the upgrade. > >J. Arif Verner > >Infinite Sound Studio >Ithaca, New York >http://www.infinitesound.com > >"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is >music." > -Aldous Huxley > > > ________________________________________________________ Kim Flint 408-752-9284 Mpact System Engineering kflint@chromatic.com Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:53:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Louis Collier Hyams To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: greets Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi loopers, after being off of the list for quite sometime i suddenly received a digest! what a mystery-ry-ry-ry so, since you all rang maybe i can ask some advice? 1) i'm looking for a vox AC head to go with my 61 2x10 cabinet. actually, i wouldn't mind any sweet vox's. sweet is the key word cuz there are some that speak and some that flub. any leads? 2) i've tried out a copla line6 axsys 212 amps (dallas, austin, new york) and have decided they all sound like a multieffects with speakers. but, on the opposite side, it's a 50 pound box that can do a festival gig and count as a single piece of luggage on the plane. anyone have any comments? suggestions? any used ones out there? they are cheap enough, but resale will be poor more than likely. you folk will have to email me privately as I don't know what the status of my membership on the loop is and how i got this digest sincerely, collier hyams hyamsl@rpi.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:37:08 -0800 From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Cc: "Looper's Delight" Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 4:23 AM 8/27/97, T.W. Hartnett wrote: >>I'm really interested in the idea of performance video. It seems possible, >>but I never see anyone really doing it. I saw a band a few years ago with a >>video artist as a band member. The music was a fascinating sort of punkish >>art/prog rock with this amazing video background. All performed right along >>with the music. It was fascinating. Naturally it was too good to be true, >>so they broke up. I really thought I'd see a lot more of that sort of mix >>since, but I've never seen anything like it again. video alongside the >>music, sure, but never created as an actual part of the performance. >>Anybody doing that? > >There's a guy in town (Austin, noted home of retarded blues guitarists) >who has put together a neat setup using super-8 projectors and slide >machines. Usually there will be two slide projectors and three film >projectors, set up on a platform in the middle of the club. He's got a >large library of film loops that he's scavanged from garage sales over >the years that he'll feed in and superimpose as the mood strikes him, >while more experimental bands play. The coolest effect I saw was when Ed >Hall (a local art-punk trio) came out on stage, wearing only shorts, >painted in day-glo body paint. There were black lights next to their >monitors, so they looked really unearthly. Luke (the film guy) had found >some footage of an oilwell fire, and had projected this three times, in >slow motion, aimed so that each of the band members appeared to be on >fire. Breathtaking, and on the cheap. > There's a guy in Olympia, Washington that does this also. We played a show there about a year and a half ago, and this guy was doing projection stuff with one of the other bands on the bill, and asked us if we minded if he did it for us as well. We said yeah, and fortunately we had brought a video camera, because what he did was extremely cool. He had 6 projectors shining on screens set up in an arc behind us. The films were educational films he bought at a school auction, 50's to 70's vintage. He'd run them forward and backwards, sometimes upside down. One bit he used a lot was a home-ec film about preparing meat, he'd play this loop of a raw meat getting chopped up over and over. Great stuff, we hope to play with him again sometime. ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org : www.peak.org/~improv/ "...there will come a day when you won't have to use gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire." -Sun Ra ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:37:13 -0800 From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: Drifting Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 7:52 PM 8/27/97, Kim Flint wrote: >One particular slightly aged stadium rock star wanted to know if we could >set up a pedal to control the amount that stereo unsynced loops went out of >phase! Do you see why this is so hard? > Yeah, Cool, if the 'plex did this I'd buy 2! :-) I do something similar with the JamMan and the Roland Groovebox. I midi-sync the JamMan to the Groovebox, set up some kind of pattern on the 'box, loop it into the JamMan, then unplug the midi cable from the JamMan so it loops freely. I had a pattern going for 2 days once, was really cool every time I checked in with it. It only went away when the power went out. ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org : www.peak.org/~improv/ "...there will come a day when you won't have to use gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire." -Sun Ra ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:37:17 -0800 From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel) To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Cc: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 4:59 PM 8/27/97, John Neilson wrote: >> >> Jamie Lack said: >> >Something I have been wondering. >> >Do any readers appreciate the concept of looping images with sounds? >> >The same way (kind of) that we loop sounds, we loop images. >> >I plan to explore this as soon as I come to grips with the GT-5 and my 4 >> >track. >> >I think Emergency Broadcast Network actually uses a video sampler in >their performances, to trigger short clips or loops either manually or >in response to musical cues. > >At one point there was a little demo version of this kind of sampler >floating around the net. I think you could do this with the new version of MAX also, it gives you some pretty comprehensive quicktime controls. ________________________________________________________ Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org : www.peak.org/~improv/ "...there will come a day when you won't have to use gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire." -Sun Ra ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:36:50 -0400 From: Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata) To: 'Loopers Delight' Subject: Wrong Ways Message-ID: <01BCB3AF.1036B240@mark.asisoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone discovered any wrong ways to use a JamMan or Vortex? Mark Kata Mark@asisoftware.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:42:40 -0700 From: "Matt McCabe" To: Subject: Re: looping images Message-Id: <199708281650.JAA16511@gw1.bi-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All this talk of looping images and Opcode Max has got me thinking. Any Max users out there? I'd be interested in hearing how you use this program. Their web page doesn't really have any examples of specific uses. Specifically, I'm wondering if anyone has incorporated Max into their live performances. It really seems as if the possibilities are endless for combining different media sources into one "coherent" performance event. Anyone tried this? Is there a dedicated mailing list for Max users out there? Thanks! Matt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:48:31 -0700 From: "Matt McCabe" To: "Loop" Subject: Max email list Message-Id: <199708281655.JAA16698@gw1.bi-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Don't you hate it when you answer your own question? >From Opcode's web page: MAX users can join the MAX ListServe. Send email to: listserv@vm1.mcgill.ca with 'SUBSCRIBE MAX' in the body of the message. Once you have subscribed, MAX questions can be emailed to: max@vm1.mcgill.ca ----------------------------- Matthew Finley McCabe Sales/Marketing Support SunGard Bi-Tech Systems Inc. 890 Fortress Street Chico, CA 95973 916.899.4348 http://www.bi-tech.com --------------------------------