I bought a JamMan Stereo last year with the grand idea of using it to augment my live performance in the band - filling in the rhythm part during solos etc. However, I soon discovered the achilles heel of using these live - timing - getting the thing to be in sync with the song when a different device (the drummer) is in control of the tempo.
So, I'm really struggling to find a use for it now so I'm thinking of selling it - but I thought I'd ask first in case there's some clever way it could be of use that I'm missing.
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
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Harmony Ahh's and Ooh's ..... something like You really got me ..... record a "Yeah" up a major third from the one you sing and instant harmony.
Listen to something like KOL's Use Somebody, there's a halo pad using the same notes pretty much through the whole song, record that into the Jam man to use that.
I don't know your set the above are just examples of stuff I was doing when I was the only guitarist in the band and needed something to fill things out. My weapon of choice was the drummers fave Roland SPD sample pad but I used it on the floor and hit it with my feet
Anyway, people I've seen use them successfully ( maybe other people have used them so well I haven't even noticed) seem to do one of two things:
- use them for very short passages only.
- use pre recorded loops for intros/ featured parts.
In both cases the trick seems to be keep it short and timing is less of an issue.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youEdit: I've just watched the Andertons video of it. It's definitely a step forward, but it's just a looper - and I need something that will have the clever sync'ing ability of the new Ditto with the bucketloads of prerecorded sample options of the JamMan.
The JamMan does have the ability to set a tap-tempo before triggering a loop / sample and also to correct it on the fly by tapping whilst it's playing. The big problem though is that it's not intelligent enough to analyse the recorded material and quantise it to the tap - it just changes the speed of the playback, so in the case of a drummer speeding up for example, you can set the tempo just before triggering the sample then, when the sample is playing, if you need to speed it up, you can make it go at the new tempo but it won't be in sync with the beat of the song.
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