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From: Jon
To: xl7@yahoogroups
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: [xl7] Re: Quiet Group
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"> >1. you don't have to use a computer OS"
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>"> Interesting - personally, I would like to see >more< integration
with external sequencers. I see the unit as a live extension of my
studio, that I can take out to clubs."
>Well the only way i can put it is like this, i have had BAD luck with
>the PC and no better luck with MAC and the lack of dependability that
>i have encountered with them. It is just tooooooo much stress when i
>am coming close to a deadline, i have lost many months over the years
>due to HD falure and crashing OS's and dont want to deal with it any
>more. 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.
Make sure that you
>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.
"> 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)"
>this is becouse you are playing the same "instrament" what I do in
>that situation is just save multiples of the instrament that you want
>to do that with, for instance i will have up to 5 tr-808's saved as
>tr808-1 through tr808-5 and have one per channel/track so i can tweak
>out the snare seperatly from the hi hats, you get the idea. It is
>much more like having a real tr808/909.
Why? What is the reasoning behind this? If it's on
separate channels, why would this make sense?