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Fw: [xl7] Re: Quiet Group

2001-09-02 by Jon

> >"I am going to move my recording platform to sompthing other
> >than the puter, I have been thinking about going to a darwin for
> >this, i have only heard good things about them. But I have to
wonder
> >if i can still get the jazz drives disk's that i would need."
>
>" Stay away from Jazz drives! They fail all the time. You'll have
better luck with a pc."

Thanks for the advice.

>
>> >"the best way i know it to use the erase button wile in record
>mode
>> >just press it and hold down the note/notes that you want to erase
>and
>> >as the loop cycles the unwanted notes are erased."
>>
>> "Yes, that's not going to cut it live."
>
>the other way i was thinking about this situation is like this, Take
>a DJ style mixer paly the meat and potatos out the main mix and what
>you are about to bring into the mix out a sub output into another
>chanel on the mixer. this way you can record what you are dooing wile
>adutioning it in the head phones, make any corrections that you might
>have to then bring it into the mix.
A creative solution, but now your are now longer playing live - you're playing 'recorded two minutes ago. Besides, this means that you can't play (for example) a grooving bass line, drop into record, drop out of record and have the bassline keep going.
>
> "> I also noticed something else - when two channels are pointed to
> the same drum kit, they are both affected by controller changes.
Why
> is that? I had the "hybrid" kit on channels 2 and 5, and regardless
> of which of the two tracks was 'active,' twisting the quick edits -
> filter tweaks etc, affected drums playing from >both< tracks. (The
> tracks were set up to point only to their respective channels,
rather
> than all)"
>
>
>> "Why? What is the reasoning behind this? If it's on separate
>channels, why would this make sense?"
>
>The sequencer can't save two different settings of paramiters for one
>program. so you have to have multiples. that is the way i understand
>it. It is like you have a synth sitting on your desk, when you hook
>it up to another midi chanell do another synth suddenly apear?
>Nope, i wish it did couse i would have like 32 JX-8P's right now LOL.
;
Ok, now I realize the issue - the quick edit controls are actually altering parameters in the patch. I was working under the assumption that they were acting like regular midi CCs.

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