Re: Looper Wishlist

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

>>What if you could
>>replace elements in a loop based on dynamics? If you're silent, the loop
>>remains the same, if you play softly, the new material is mixed into the
>>background of the old, and if you play at full volume, the old material 
>is
>>completely replaced by the new. I
>
>    Working with a compressor on the sum of live and looped sound has a
>similar effect in that the live sound pushes the loop out of the way (no
>completely), put when you stop playing the loop comes back.
>
The Vortex does this, very nice for having loops fill the space between
phrases, but not crowd out the live sound, But what I'm talking about is
having the live playing overdubbed into the loop, recording over/mixing
with the looped material at a volume determined by the dynamics.

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