I actually don't own this. Matthias is just letting me
borrow it for a few months and get to know it until
he comes up to visit from Brazil to finally pick it up,
which might be until October for the huge looping festival
that I perform at.

Usually I don't like to throw myself into something that I can't afford to
own or something that is on a temporary loan but I get the hit that this
is important and because I'm so interested in the invention of instruments,
the use of found sound and digital sound design and effects design (I
have a
company that will be releasing very hip innovative VST instruments and even
Hardware devices in the next couple of years called 'Out of the Box FX'),
I think I should really let myself get into this device.

Matthias may have purchased an RE1 through the purchase of
an older Korg Synth so we'll see if I ahve the ability to use one for
programming.

Also, apparently, you can use the RIM MOUNT in to come from any miced
or piezod sound source which then will put the instruments's sound through
the sound engine of the Wave Drum. I don't know if this is true but
from comments
and reviews I've read, I think this is possible.

This REALLY EXCITES ME if it, indeed, is the case. Do you happen to
know if it's true?

Thanks for the offer of the processing app, but , honestly, I'm not
really interested in
sequencing stuff as I am improvising in real time and processing the
signals
(and as I've said in earlier posts to the WaveDrum list, working with
Feedback and Distortion
manipulation of the acoustic sounds.

If I can get enough work done by Thursday, I'm going to go perform at the
Luggage Store Experimental Music Series and use the drum as one of my
primary sound
sources in a purely improvisational and experimental performance.

BE well and thanks so much for writing to me, Jamie.

It's always nice to meet a new colleague, out on the wave of innovation
and creativity.

yours, Rick

ps do you have music to share that you've created with these techniques?
I'd love to hear what you've come up with.

yours, Rick

drummer boy wrote:
>
> Rick-Welcome aboard!
> I was fortunate to have picked up my wavedrum when it came out and
> it is by far the most responsive electronic instrument I know of-it
> more than makes up for the fact you can't trigger it with midi.It is
> definitely not a midi controller either(it only can send one note
> value when hit).I run it through various fx units and I automate the
> parameters in realtime with my mac.If you have the REI controller you
> can manually adjust the pressure sensitivity but if you want to change
> it via a sequencer you have to use system exclusive messages which are
> not fun to deal with.I use a midi proccessing app to convert
> continuous cotroller info into sysex so any sequencer or midi
> controller can change the parameters in the WD.Let me know if you
> would like to try any of this stuff out.
> Jamie
>
> --- On *Sun, 2/15/09, Rick Walker /<looppool@...>/* wrote:
>
> From: Rick Walker <looppool@...>
> Subject: [korg_wavedrum] KORG WAVEDRUM users manual in ENGLISH
> To: korg_wavedrum@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 3:56 PM
>
> I see that Jon Wagner has posted what looks like
> sections from the original owners manual and I'm
> wondering if these posts are all inclusive or
> if there are any other resources on line to
> find the manual.
>
> I want to start getting in to this puppy and see what I can
> program.
>
> One other newbie question:
> I keep reading on line that the midi implementation is very poor
> and primitive on this unit.
>
> Does anyone use this to play other synthesizers or samplers
> and is there a way, through midi, to program parameter control
> in real time through things like pressure sensitity?
>
> Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom.
>
> Rick Walker
>
>
>