Re: Drummers and Syncing

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias Grob)]

RA336 said:

>I have spent 9 years in a band with two people looping with delays and two
>other people looping with samplers...

You are a rare case then. Tell us more!

>the delay-based loopers were me (stereo guitar>modified pcm42>jamman and
>>our violinist (stereo violin>tc2290>digitech 8 second delay)...

Of those machines only Jamman accepts MIDIsync, right?

>the sampler loopers were the drummer who generated his own loops and
>triggered his own click in a headphones setup... and the keyboard player 
>who
>used sampled and sequenced loops. He would at times send midi clock to the
>drummer and to the delays in cases where we wanted hard sync.

So, how did he do that?

>Other times,
>mr. drummer was master of time and our subsequently perfomed looping
>synce-on-the-fly and previously created and sampled loops all somehow
>>managed to sit.

Wow! How that?

>We were and continue to be (I think) one of the very few song-oriented 
>bands
>to be using techniques like these.

<uff> So it is possible. Sterile? Chaotic? The same as any band, just less
musicians?