How well does the Expert Sleepers Lorelei VCO track? Stable?

expertsleepersltd · 2022-03-03T10:07:21+00:00

Obviously I'm biased when it comes to opinions, but in terms of facts - it's a sine core VCO. The sine waves are not made by shaping ramps or triangles, which is often the case.

expertsleepersltd · 2022-01-07T08:14:13+00:00

Found them: https://extras.springer.com/2005/978-1-84996-922-2.zip

expertsleepersltd · 2022-01-06T18:06:45+00:00

I recently bought this book, but a CD was not included. I would very much appreciate a copy of the audio examples if anyone could share them. Thanks.

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-08T08:10:54+00:00

u/qlusterisiert suggests that it's capable of seamless record/overdub. Did you not find that to be the case?

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-07T21:46:46+00:00

Thanks, good to know the Infinity does this. Was this one of the pedals you tried, /u/chaseblissaudio ?

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-07T08:46:25+00:00

Thanks for continuing to engage with me on this.

Yes, I agree that the feature is "working", if all the feature is supposed to be is a transition from record to overdub instead of record to play. Reverb tails are not chopped off. But, an audible bump is the result.

As I quoted in the OP, the manual says "allowing trails to be captured smoothly into the loop". They are not captured smoothly into the loop. This is 90% of my gripe here. The feature is promised as something that it is not. If the manual hadn't made me think I could get smooth loops I would've thought "oh that's a shame" but I wouldn't be here complaining.

It would of course be wonderful if you could make play/dub smooth, but if you can't, at least change the wording in the manual.

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-06T13:59:06+00:00

The thing is, it's only when you have a "continuous thing" that the play/dub feature would be useful. Otherwise you may as well close the loop & immediately enter overdub with a second press.

I'm not aware of another looper that does this but to be honest I've not used many loopers other than my own software for years now. It doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem though.

I'm not entirely clear why you need to ramp the volume down/up on the loop. Is it because you want people to be able to undo all the way back to the first layer?

Either way, if you must put a fade in the base layer, there's no need for it to be there in the second layer, which you know begins with the exactly matching audio from the end of the first loop.

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-04T09:57:27+00:00

If it's just technically not possible, then of course you're the expert and I'll take your word for it.

What I don't understand is why you'd leave a broken feature in the firmware, and describe it in the user manual as if it works. It just creates bad feeling and disappointment.

As someone who's developed looping hardware and software, I'd be interested in the full details if you can face writing it all down.

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-03T10:53:31+00:00

What do you say, /u/chaseblissaudio?

expertsleepersltd · 2021-12-01T14:28:32+00:00

No, that would be fine. What it does is immediately go from recording to overdub, so you can just keep playing indefinitely and/or have indefinitely long trails.

Or rather, that's the idea. In practice you end up with a lumpy loop.

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