There's been nothing public but that's ok as there was progress in the Rockhouse anyway.
Most of the focus has been on the Boss RC-50 looper as it permits three independent phrases but I usually only play with one of them. Something you might do is use Phrase 1 for a twelve-bar pattern in C and then use Phrase 2 to record it again in E. With those two phrases in-place, you can flip back and forth between them and the RC-50 is intelligent enough to play out a phrase before switching to the other. Then you can play some lead in each key and sound like you know what you're doing.
What's missing is modulation. Usually when you go from one key to another, there will be some kind of bridge chords. Those are missing with this type of recording so it becomes a bit like musical peek-a-boo as it goes now I'm here and now I'm there. It's ok as there's definitely still musical coolness in it but working with it is novel.
The other aspect of play has been getting the Boss DR-880 drum machine to behave. In recent shows the drums have sometimes been, at best, overpowering and sometimes worse. Some of you have heard it when the drums changed tempo for no apparent reason but that problem is now, I believe, solved. (Tech note: the change was in the RC-50 to switch MIDI timing from AUTO to INTERNAL. The manual says for this purpose to use AUTO but I have had multiple problems with that whereas INTERNAL results in a stable tempo with the master clock coming from the RC-50.)
UPDATE: Scratch that. It's not solved. It was just waiting. It has to do with TEMPO SYNC that's set at the Patch level but that has some concerns as well. More to come as I experiment with it.
The crap drum patterns in the RC-50 are also definitely murdered as I've directed that output to a channel which isn't connected anything. This also solves some intermittent problems as the end result is that the DR-880 is definitely providing all percussion.
Most of the focus has been on the Boss RC-50 looper as it permits three independent phrases but I usually only play with one of them. Something you might do is use Phrase 1 for a twelve-bar pattern in C and then use Phrase 2 to record it again in E. With those two phrases in-place, you can flip back and forth between them and the RC-50 is intelligent enough to play out a phrase before switching to the other. Then you can play some lead in each key and sound like you know what you're doing.
What's missing is modulation. Usually when you go from one key to another, there will be some kind of bridge chords. Those are missing with this type of recording so it becomes a bit like musical peek-a-boo as it goes now I'm here and now I'm there. It's ok as there's definitely still musical coolness in it but working with it is novel.
The other aspect of play has been getting the Boss DR-880 drum machine to behave. In recent shows the drums have sometimes been, at best, overpowering and sometimes worse. Some of you have heard it when the drums changed tempo for no apparent reason but that problem is now, I believe, solved. (Tech note: the change was in the RC-50 to switch MIDI timing from AUTO to INTERNAL. The manual says for this purpose to use AUTO but I have had multiple problems with that whereas INTERNAL results in a stable tempo with the master clock coming from the RC-50.)
UPDATE: Scratch that. It's not solved. It was just waiting. It has to do with TEMPO SYNC that's set at the Patch level but that has some concerns as well. More to come as I experiment with it.
The crap drum patterns in the RC-50 are also definitely murdered as I've directed that output to a channel which isn't connected anything. This also solves some intermittent problems as the end result is that the DR-880 is definitely providing all percussion.
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