when using the 2880 with external sync in a live situation, how do you clear the previous song’s loops to start a new song without recording loops right from the start of the external clock?

in other words, lets say i finish a song with the 2880.. then i want to start a new song from my external sequencer. i want the old loop to clear, but i dont want to start making new loops until several bars into the new song.
make sense?

right now it appears to me that if you press “new loop” you will start recording silence as soon as you hit “play” on your external sequencer. if you dont press “new loop” then the last song’s loops will start playing back again.

does anyone have a workaround for this, or am i missing something?

emptyself - 13 March 2010 06:00 AM

when using the 2880 with external sync in a live situation, how do you clear the previous song’s loops to start a new song without recording loops right from the start of the external clock?

in other words, lets say i finish a song with the 2880.. then i want to start a new song from my external sequencer. i want the old loop to clear, but i dont want to start making new loops until several bars into the new song.
make sense?

right now it appears to me that if you press “new loop” you will start recording silence as soon as you hit “play” on your external sequencer. if you dont press “new loop” then the last song’s loops will start playing back again.

does anyone have a workaround for this, or am i missing something?

Possibly the easiest way to clear the loop would be to press New Loop, followed by two presses of Record. The first press begins recording the New Loop, the second stops recording the loop. But this might be tricky if there is no MIDI Clock running at the time you try to do it. Also if you are using Quantize mode you would have to wait for a couple bars to pass by before the second Record press.

There might not be an easy way to do this.