MOTM

the vp-70 is a black 1U rackmount unit -Nate

improv@... wrote:

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