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I may be wrong but I think the Looperlative is the
only box out there that allows multiple tracks of
different lengths synced or not synced to each other.
Mark
--- Seth Elgart <selgart@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 6:53 AM -0700 6/1/06, Buzap wrote:
> >If I record a sample ("phrase") and go into
> overdub,
> >does that mean I have to stick to the initial
> phrase
> >length no matter what?
> >I wanted to do this: record 1 bar, then overdub
> >2-bar-pattern, then overdub 4-bar-pattern etc.
> >Is there a reasonable way (like multiply) to do
> this?
>
> Why not do it the old fashioned way, by playing it
> by hand? Play the
> first one bar pattern through four times, then play
> the second two
> bar pattern twice, then play the four bar pattern
> once. This way you
> have three different length phrases, except that as
> far as the
> looper's concerned they're all four bars. As long as
> you're not
> playing sevens against eights or something this will
> work fine. You
> could do that too if you're willing to play the
> patterns by hand
> eight times and seven times respectively, and if the
> looper can
> record a phrase of that length. On the other hand,
> if you want 11
> against 13, then you'll have to record 143 measures
> before they'll
> line up again.
>
> In the late 80s/early 90s I was working on a "sound
> track" for a
> play. I had a piece that was about 3.5 minutes long,
> with a
> burbling-along arpeggio running throughout, but they
> wanted it to be
> twice that because that's how long the scene was.
> For the original, I
> simply played the four-note arpeggio eight times,
> then made that loop
> (I was using Performer, or maybe a hardware digital
> sequencer). Very
> simple. However, when we re-recorded that for the
> play, the studio
> had only the one tape machine and no computers or
> other looping
> devices. I had to sit there and play that dang
> arpeggio by hand for
> seven minutes. It took me an hour of trying before I
> managed to play
> it perfectly all the way through, and I had to throw
> everyone out of
> the room to do it. The Human Sequencer.
>
> What was I talking about? Oh, yeah. The moral of
> this little story is
> to not worry about the possible lack of
> functionality of the hardware
> in question, but to simply play the different length
> patterns by
> hand. <g>
>
> It'll work just fine.
>
>
>
> Seth
>
>
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