Sampler Pedal
Sampler Pedal
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 DigiTech JamMan Stereo Looper Sampler Pedal NEW  US $214.00
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 DigiTech JML2 JamMan Stereo Looper and Phrase US $240.00
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 DigiTech JamMan Looper Guitar Effect Pedal w 2GB Compact Flash Memory US $30.00
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 DIGITECH JML JAM MAN LOOPER PEDAL US $15.61
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 NEW Boomerang III Phrase Sampler v3 Looper Software v2 US $469.00
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 NEW Boomerang Side Car Controller for Phrase Sampler Pedal US $229.00
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 New Boomerang III Phrase Sampler Looper Pedal 3 US $469.00
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 BOSS RC 20XL LOOP STATION SAMPLER LOOPER EFFECTS PEDAL RC20 US $180.00
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 Boss RC 20XL Loop Station US $137.50
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 BOOMERANG III E 156 Phrase Sampler NEW US $469.00
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 DigiTech JamMan 2 JML2 Stereo Looper and Sampler Pedal FREE USA SHIPPING US $299.95
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 Boomerang III Phrase Sampler US $469.00
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 Digitech JamMan Solo US $199.00
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 ELECTRO HARMONIX INSTANT REPLAY SAMPLER LOOPER GUITAR PEDAL US $229.00
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 BRAND NEW igiTech JML2 JamMan Stereo Looper and Phrase Sampler FREE USA SHIP US $299.95
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 Boomerang III Looper Phrase Sampler Effect Pedal NEW US $469.00
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 Digitech JamMan Solo Looper Phrase Sampler PEDAL PAK US $189.99
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 Digitech JamMan Solo Looper Phrase Sampler Pedal US $169.95
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 DigiTech JamMan Solo Looper Brand New Free Shipping US $169.95
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 Digitech JamMan Solo Looper Guitar Effects Pedal US $179.95
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 Digitech JamMan Delay Looper Phrase Sampler US $349.95
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How To Get Creative in Music Production. Think, Make and Play
What's the first thing you do when starting a new track on your computer? Fire up Logic? Warm-up the TB808? Sit on top of a hill and hope musical inspiration hits you whilst pondering the meaning of existence? Any of those things would do, but if you're like most people, you sit in front of a blank screen wondering where to start for at least ten minutes. If it's a bad day you sit there for hours, not getting anywhere. One of the hardest things about making music can be trying to force inspiration when it won't come. We can't teach that at Garnish School of Sound. Sometimes you can kick yourself into it, sometimes writers block is as stubborn as a mule. There is avenues of relief though, and some of them don't involve vegging in front of the TV or raiding the fridge for the fifteenth time that day. Carrying on in part from my last article, I will try and give some food for thought about ways of being creative with music.
As I see it, there are three main things to stifle the inspiration of the creative music maker, presuming you have all the stuff and are ready to go; not knowing what to do, not knowing how to do it, and being worried that what you do is going to be any good. Well, for the last one I can answer it really quickly… everything you do is good because being productive is good and the next time you do something it will be even better. In this article though I'm going to dig into the first, and partly the second stifling factors. If you are lucky enough to have a Roland TB808 as the guy in the first paragraph, you pretty much know what's going to happen. You select a drum, press a button in the sequencer and you make a drum groove. That's what 808's are, and so it doesn't take long before you're in Detroit Techno heaven, and that's why they're great: focus. So… what does a computer do? Well, lots of stuff. You've got three hours to make some music so you may start at the synthesiser. Or perhaps the sequencer, or record some samples for the sampler. Maybe buy a sample pack, or download some new loops for inspiration, or one of the massive variety of programs at your disposal, and that's before you even get into the program itself or write a note. The conclusion? Choice is a great thing but also, it can be a bad thing. Conventional wisdom says to find one or two instruments and a few effects and learn them inside out so you can use them really well. This is a fine way to go about limiting your options so you can concentrate on doing rather than deciding. There is more than one way to skin a synth though, and the way I'm going to explain does the job of helping decide what to do and teaching you how to do it at the same time. The answer? DIY.
We're not going to be putting up flat-pack or hammering in nails but in practice it's not too different than doing just that on a computer. Often as not, after learning how to use a music program, getting it to do exactly what you want can be tricky, or even impossible. Most of the time there is a work-around or some kind of compromise, but often as not we don't want a compromise; we want it exactly how we want and it seems those functions should be clear, accessible and functional. I personally find that I often use huge programs in a very simple way and have no need of all the bells and whistles it offers. Then when the trial period is over and you find yourself with a potentially big bill for doing something simple it can grind a bit. Therefore another big bonus to making it yourself is that it can be as simple or as complicated as you like, although if you fancy making a fully functional commercial DAW it may be worth letting the entire however-many-strong Apple development team do it for you. Right then, back to the title… think, make, play.
I'm going to skip over the actual thinking process here, just to say that whether it's on the aforementioned hill, on the toilet or in the hazy morning after the night before, ideas will come, usually when not expected. When you have one, break it down to find where to start. An example of this started with a problem given to me by a guy who wanted a little plug-in design help in Max/MSP. He wanted a gizmo to read the pitch of whatever instrument he was recording (usually guitar and voice) and to play harmonising notes in real time through any synth, whilst recording the audio, and the midi notes into Logic. The choice of program (instrument) on the synth and the type of harmonisation was to be controlled by a midi foot pedal. Step one: Get all the routing done so all the midi and audio runs to the right places. Two: Set up pitch detection. Three: Set the pedals to control harmonisation and program change. Four: Test, debug, tweak. Five: Graphic User Interface Design. Doing all this is of course a bit more complicated than that, but that's the process in a nutshell. During this process I had two great ideas that I decided to put into practice in my own performance software: An arpeggiator that creates harmonised delay lines of incoming audio by reading the pitch, and using pedal combinations to create shifting harmonic lines around the main melody. So by making something for someone else, I got great ideas just when I wanted a new gizmo to play with.
The main point I make here is that synthesiser design, sampler design, FX design and pretty much any tool you can think of design can take us in new and interesting directions, and can really beat those blank page blues. Also, for those of us that want to do something a bit different, or really stamp their identity by doing something in a new way, try a new angle. Try this thought for size: Why adapt your music to someone else's system when you can adapt a system to your music? After all, the music is what it's all about. Don't compromise your music, change the system to suit it best.
About the Author
<p>Dave Garnish runs the boutique music production school Garnish School of Sound, with <a href="http://www.musicproductioncourses.net/">sound engineering courses</a> for all levels</p> Article URL: <a href="http://www.musicproductioncourses.net/build-a-synthesizer-think-make-play-maxmsp/">Build a synthesizer</a></p>
Which Loop pedal would be best, Boss, Digitech, etc?
So I'd like one of these Loop/sampler things to practice at home with. Harmonies, overdubbing, solos, the usual stuff I see people use this for. It would also be nice to use live, to make one guitarist sound like two, two sound like three or more, and so on. That isn't as important as its quality for practice purposes, but the ability to use it well live is a close second.
The things I've been looking at on musiciansfriend are the Boss RC20XL, the Digitech JamMan Looper, and the Boss RC-50. The first two I probably won't buy, because I'd frankly like more than TWO pedals, especially for live purposes. So that almost leaves the Boss RC-50 by default, but what a lot of cash eh?
If you guys have any other suggestions, or comparisons, that'd be much appreciated!
You should see reviews of the products
Boss is a division of Roland ,thus is trust able.
See Behringer m-audio, shure, etc.
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~fiazio
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