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Re: Kaoss Pad as a Looper



At 12:39 PM 9/10/2003, Steve Lawson wrote:
> > OK, then . .
> > It's not a Live Looper--you have to stop the unit to play back a 
>sample.
> > Next step--assign the axi to footpedals and use the PMC to change stuff
>that
> > way.  Look Ma, no hands!
> > Gary
>
>What does that mean? I use the Kaoss looping functions in live settings,
>without prerecording stuff - I loop it, and trigger it - does looping have
>to happen immediately?

I would say yes. A looper is a different thing from a sampler. My basic 
definition of a looper is something that seamlessly plays back the loop 
after it has been recorded, and allows additional material to be recorded 
to the loop while it continues to play. It should at least do that to be a 
looper, and that's the definition I put on Looper's Delight about 7 years 
ago. A sampler generally has more separated recording functions, and 
requires the samples to be triggered. They don't seamlessly go into a loop 
and they don't let you record new stuff onto the loop while it plays. Once 
a sample is in the sampler, it can be looped with a simple sequence the 
triggers it at regular intervals, but that is not the same as being a 
"looper".

It sounds to me like the function you are playing with here is a phrase 
sampler.

>does it have to go round and round, or is it still
>'looping' if I sample it and trigger it at some point in the gig?
>
>More to the point, does it really matter? :o)

Samplers and loopers can both be used live and in musically useful ways, 
so 
in that respect no, it doesn't matter. Use whatever works for you. But I 
think it does matter that words have a meaningful definition, otherwise 
communicating gets really hard.

kim



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