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>At 1:53 PM -0300 5/17/00, Matthias Grob wrote:
>>Neil said:
>>>...And often I wish I would have recorded the
>>>instruments/lines on separate tracks from the start. But now in the
>>>'perfection' of the moment, they're all on one mono track! Of course an
>>>entirely different type of music and feel results from starting on a
>multi
>>>track, and doing take after take, etc.
>>
>>There must be another way:
>>Record the INPUT of the looper (not yet looped audio) to the
>>audio-sequencer of the computer, together with all the operations
>>(MIDI output of the looper).
>>Then play back the file, feed the computer audio output AND the
>>recorded MIDI operations into the looper again. The loop should
>>become rebuilt exactly as it was.
>
>
>This is exactly what I do. My bass has a separate output for each string,
>they run into a Yamaha 03D mixer. The ADAT optical output of the
>mixer is split by a midiman digipatch, so it can go to two places: a
>9600 running mutltrack recording software and a G3 running my own
>looping stuff.
>
>Channels 1-4 are the direct outs of the bass (and any other mics,
>synths or whatever) and they get recorded dry, along with the MIDI
>data which controls the looper, so that the loop can be rebuilt with
>an edit, remixed, etc.
>
>Channels 5-8 are the quad looper outputs, and they get recorded into
>the multitrack as well.
>
>Just last week I found that on a new 500Mhz powerbook, I can run
>several loopers AND record their signals to a little firewire disk
>drive, so I am pretty excited that I'll finally be able to move my
>instrument by myself again this year, and put an end to these
>recurring dreams that the band is starting and I am still unloading
>my van!
>
>-Alex S.
>
great! you are full of computers...
I did not quite understand whether you rebuild the loops using the
external looper again (which is it?) or by mounting loops in the
mltitrack soft.
What do you mean by "my own looping stuff"?
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