I knew a guy who had three of these in his “effects” rack. Guitar player, had no idea what these were for or how to use them, and didn’t want to part with any of them. I bet they’re still there collecting dust.
Yeah. They were intended as loopers to flesh out stuff doing mixing. This goes super far back to the establishment of the music industry. Noises and atonal things are not writing and no one wants the engineer to ever have writing credit like how producers can get that. Therefore, your guitar player friend was probably just told that it's a way to finish songs and you need them to finish your music. If your guitar sounded thin, this could loop a section, you could mess it up and put it in as a layer to bridge the rhythm section with your guitar. He'd buy three because he didn't bounce things down and he'd just like them running at the same time. That makes total sense actually. If he didn't wanna sell them, he was probably just doubling down on thinking it was a way to finish songs.
I've wanted one of these ever since I saw Todd Edwards talking about it. I believe this is how he would process a lot of his vocal chops back in the day
@@evilrainbow it's actually pretty bad at that. The loops are clicky in most case even if the loop point was fine before the encoding. Still I'll try to show something more classic soon.
@@MrCaliforniaD dang, that's kind of disappointing given I just saw (on Hainbach's channel) there was a French company called Publison in the late-70s which did an effects-processor/sample-looper/mangler and they had a method to ensure zero-crossings so no pops (or just "glitches" as they called them) in the loops. The actual effects sounded clearly rudimentary digital, but the loops were really clean. So it's a shame Roland couldn't get a similar loop method in the 80s.
@@wesleywild-s9x It's special, because it would be soooo nice with today's technology. I'll try to make a full video soon where I explain what it does and how bad it does some on the things.
sounds like you can use it to connect to dial-up internet too
Did Autechre use it?
I knew a guy who had three of these in his “effects” rack. Guitar player, had no idea what these were for or how to use them, and didn’t want to part with any of them. I bet they’re still there collecting dust.
Yeah. They were intended as loopers to flesh out stuff doing mixing.
This goes super far back to the establishment of the music industry. Noises and atonal things are not writing and no one wants the engineer to ever have writing credit like how producers can get that.
Therefore, your guitar player friend was probably just told that it's a way to finish songs and you need them to finish your music. If your guitar sounded thin, this could loop a section, you could mess it up and put it in as a layer to bridge the rhythm section with your guitar. He'd buy three because he didn't bounce things down and he'd just like them running at the same time.
That makes total sense actually. If he didn't wanna sell them, he was probably just doubling down on thinking it was a way to finish songs.
I've wanted one of these ever since I saw Todd Edwards talking about it. I believe this is how he would process a lot of his vocal chops back in the day
Can you do more videos on this? After hearing it, I'm finding myself slowly inching my mouse to the "add to cart" option.
good luck finding one
Another roland abondon tech lost in time
habe ihn seit 15j. ich liebe das Teil!
I just plain love this.
haha glitched indeed! this sounds amazing 💗🎉
It's alive!😮
sick
This sounds like the Tekken universe is about to end forever
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a beast🙂
lol so you use it like a Midwest basement noise musician... show us some actual sample mangling/cutting
@@evilrainbow it's actually pretty bad at that. The loops are clicky in most case even if the loop point was fine before the encoding. Still I'll try to show something more classic soon.
@@MrCaliforniaD oh no. I'm... morbidly excited to see that?
why is this comment so negative?
@@MrCaliforniaD dang, that's kind of disappointing given I just saw (on Hainbach's channel) there was a French company called Publison in the late-70s which did an effects-processor/sample-looper/mangler and they had a method to ensure zero-crossings so no pops (or just "glitches" as they called them) in the loops.
The actual effects sounded clearly rudimentary digital, but the loops were really clean. So it's a shame Roland couldn't get a similar loop method in the 80s.
pretty freaking sick
I knew a guy that bought one . Didn't use it once but said Vari phrase a lot . Really a lot
@@wesleywild-s9x It's special, because it would be soooo nice with today's technology. I'll try to make a full video soon where I explain what it does and how bad it does some on the things.
7:02 Songtitle "Robocop get's mad" or "Datasette Dreams"
Beautiful
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