improv@... wrote:
From: improv@...>I hate to trash a piece of equipment, but I had a vp-70 and itwas
>absolutely horrible for tracking and instrument other than anunfiltered
>vco it rarely tracked anything accurately (guitar, bass, synth,voice)
>and constantly jumped around in pitch no matter how I set thepitch bend
>options. I hastily sold it to buy my first MOTM-300 -Nate
>
>ivancu@... wrote:
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I saw a performance once that used the vp-70 (I think, is it thesmall
white table-top Roland pitch-to-MIDI box?) in a way that reallyblew my
mind. It was a piece by bay area keyboardist/composer Chris Browncalled
Snakecharmer. The setup for the piece was this: a mic plugged intothe
pitch-to-MIDI controlling a TX-81z plugged into a few effects theninto an
am and speaker. Brown would whistle into the mic, and the speakerwas
positioned right behing his head, so the mic would pick up theoutput of
the TX, creating a feedback loop except the feedback was beingconverted to
MIDI! It created these streams of very fast notes ripping aroundthe room,
and he controlled the amount of feedback by moving the mic relativeto the
speaker, and occaisionaly whistling again when it started to dieout. It
was a totally amazing piece, really worked musically as well asa chunk of
experimental weirdness. Feedback rules!____________________________________________
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