200e

Thanks for the insight. Unfortunately our 225e module is out of commission right now due to someone breaking it. How someone could be so careless with such a high end instrument is beyond me. 

-Jeshua

--- In 200e@yahoogroups.com, zaum <zaum@...> wrote:
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> > Hi, I am a student at Berklee College of Music looking to get some insight into the 200e. I have been spending many hours familiarizing myself with the 18 rack module that's located at the school and would like to include it in my computer based music without using volta or max/msp. Are there any techniques you seasoned veterans use when adding Buchla to your productions?
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> > Thanks, Jeshua
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> The first thing that comes to mind is do they have a 225e module? Working with MIDI input could certainly bypass using volta. 
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> > One thing that I haven't figured out is how I can incorporate my patches with my own music that is almost completely computer based. Typically I use Logic Pro as my main sequencer and on the Buchla a lot of my patches include the 250e module, but I'm having the hardest time trying to "align" the Buchla up with my tracks for when I'm recording. If I could get a little insight from the community on how you veterans approach recording this amazing instrument that would be great. 
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> It's hard to tell the exact nature of your problem. I'm guessing you have the 250e running with timing info you manually input and you are having trouble getting that material and other material to sync perhaps because the other material has a tempo of sorts that is different. I can think of some very general approaches which definitely have pros and cons. 
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> One way would be to have a single 250e track act sort of the master rhythm and then manually edit material to it or trigger new material somehow from it. In other words avoid a situation where you have 2 tracks with different tempos by making subsequent tracks follow a master. I'm more a casual Logic user but I'm pretty sure Logic can detect a beat in an audio track. At that point you could use Logic's tempo based on that for new events.
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> A second approach is if you have that 225e, recent firmware now allows you to decode MIDI tempo as pulses that can then advance the 225e. So I'm thinking if you set up Logic to have a master tempo going you should be able to have the tempo advance the stage (rather than say a time value you input). So you would give up any manual time settings on the 250e for the ability to use Logic as a master clock and have the 225e's decoding to pulses options control the step advance on the 250e.
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> The third approach is potentially sonically imperfect but you could load your material into Live and use Live's features to manipulate the material to "follow" the master tempo. That can be done by time stretching or chopping up the material. I think Logic has some tools along these lines but Live is likely more dedicated to doing things like that.
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> Nick
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