Lexicon PCM 42 - 4.2.2 Looping Techniques for Live Performance; LONG DELAY LOOP SETUP

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2.) ADJUST THE MANUAL VCO-SWEEP CONTROL
TO AN EVEN VALUE OF DELAY. If your PCM 42 has
no memory option, a value of 800 will occur near the
center of the control’s travel: with the memory option,
the value will be 1600.
4.2.2 Looping Techniques for Live Performance
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A very useful technique with the infinite repeat is to
get a basic line or part trapped into the memory, then
turn feedback up full clockwise. When the infinite
repeat is released, the looped segment does not die
away immediately, but continues to repeat Gue to the
high degree of regeneration used. (Be sure you have set
the segment length as described above.) While in this
state, new notes, rhythms, or lines may be added over
the old. Then if the unit is placed once more into repeat
mode, both the old and new parts will be heard. This
technique would not be feasible except for the superior
qualities of Lexicon’s special encoding circuitry, which
contribute very little audio degradation to a recirculated
signal.
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Figure 4.5-m — LONG DELAY LOOP
This is a more extended form of the setup in Fig. 4.5-1, with many layers. Sound can be captured in INFINITE REPEAT
mode; when this mode is turned off, new layers can be added to the sound and the composite put back in INFINITE
REPEAT. For instructions on how to synchronize the beginning of the measure to the beginning of the repeat cycle,
see below.
Once the procedure described in Section 4.2.1 has
been carried out, the delay times will be synchronized
with the length of the INFINITE REPEAT loop. There re-
main two potential barriers to the maximally effective
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use of this facility: how to synchronize the beginning of
a measure with the start time of the loop, and how to
establish tempo within a repeated loop that is too long
to count reliably