On 17 Feb 2009, at 00:05, Rick Walker wrote:

> 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.
>
wow, that was just an idea, now you set it in stone... hope that
works :-)
lately I don't even manage to advance with the more urgent work, but
this was really an amazing opportunity we had to grab. And now there
is fascination...:
> 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
>
I see the problem of becoming addict or base compositions on those
tools...
> 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'),
>
wow, I did not know that! whom do you do this with?
> 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.
>
I did not yet. It would be rather easy to create the sysex on a
computer but a hw controller can usually only send out sysex sequences
from buttons, not CC (is that right?)
> 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?
>
oh sure, I have seen in the service manual that there are two inputs
for the pickups and we are certainly free to feed them with any audio
signal.
quite interesting idea really, you could feed it from a mixer and play
your whole setup through it.
There is a stereo converter and one of the inputs is fed by 4
connected pickups and the other by the RIM MOUNT jack. I dont know
whether both inputs are treated the same by the sofware, so it might
be interesting to create another input to replace the mics.

I am a bit disapointed that the software does not receive separate
signals from several spots or from several kinds of pickups to
interprete them in some smart way.
> 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.
>
hm... so the sound as it was meant to be used is not interesting enough?
:-)
>
> 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.
>
yes, a collection of recordings is always the best way to present an
instrument
- which could be the intention of this list, I don't know...

Matthias
>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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