[LAU] Progressive Quantisation

[Bob van der Poel]

Nick Copeland wrote:
> Hm, my reply to munging got damaged there!
>  
> Kurzweil developed a box to do this, I think as a project after selling 
> his company to Young Chang. It was just such a PLL that would sync to 
> the drummer so that the massively overproduced garange bands could play 
> their music live, something that was impossible without  miming the 
> whole act. Basically the drummer would lead the tempo (some are 
> notoriously bad at following a set tempo anyway), from that the software 
> would derive a MIDI time code and away it went to drive the sequencers.
>  

I remember, a long time ago, playing an Electrohome home organ which 
varied the beat box tempo by following the timing the player used on the 
pedalboard. I was young at the time (in the 60s) and I'm not sure how 
well/badly it worked. But, I do remember the owner boasting about it :)

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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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