[LAU] Freewheeling, keyboard

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 10:20:32 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM, rosea grammostola <
rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> well Freewheeling can be configured to work with any joystick or midi
>> input device.. There are commercially avaible midi foot controllers, There
>> is a preset already for using a Dance Dance Revolution style dance mat (i
>> have one of those)... or you can do what I did and convert a cheap usb
>> joypad...
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Danni, I think you better do 'reply to all'...

Such a midi controller, can I also use it when using my electric guitar? It
just makes fweeling start and stop right?

what is the difference between fweelin and sooperlooper?

\r


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>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM, rosea grammostola <
>> rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>  I'm wondering if a cycle is a good display for such a thing... Maybe a
>>>>>> vertical line would be more easy, with some mark/ timing tools or something.
>>>>>> Or be able to set loop ranges in realtime...
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>>>> The Author designed it as a tool for creating non-linear music. It is
>>>> usually used in a live context where the person using it is a musician of
>>>> some kind. Like a musical instrument it does take some skill to master. The
>>>> great thing about it is that the computer interaction is so straight forward
>>>> that you can sing or perform with an instrument and use freewheeling and not
>>>> have the two interfere  with each other. ( a foot controller is a must for
>>>> two handed instruments)
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>>>> Stick with it - It takes a bit of practice. But gets fun very quickly. I
>>>> generally use Freewheeling for sketching out an idea then I import the loops
>>>> into Ardour and do polishing there.
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>>> Thanks for the enthusiatic responses.
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>>> What is a foot controller and what can you do with it (with fweelin and
>>> other apps)? I'm a total noob on such things.
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>>> \r
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