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At 4:01 PM +0000 7/11/01, Brian Parker wrote: >I joined the LD mailing list to discuss looping...All i want is new >perspectives on making phat loops from vinyl samples, and share what >i know. That's a pretty wide open subject, and much depends on whether you intend to create the loops in advance and then play them back live, or whether you want to grab loops on the fly, during the performance. Much also depends on your equipment. A good place to start might be to describe what you are using and how you have it hooked up, as well as what range of music you are mixing. If you're doing primarily dance music, and you want your loops to be strictly synchronous with the beat, that presents one set of problems and opportunities. If you're doing ambient soundscapes, that presents another set. Some of the issues are equipment issues, particularly if you need to establish and maintain tight sync between your CD and/or vinyl playback and your loops. Other issues arise from the way your equipment is interconnected. For instance, are you using dedicated DJ mixer, or do you have more routing and mixing flexibility? What signal processing are you using? I'm a big fan of combining both parallel and serial processing, and I like to use a mixer with a lot of auxiliary sends so that I can change the routing at will. For instance, if you have just two processors - a looping device and a multieffects processor - and a small mixer you could patch the aux sends to the inputs of the two devices and patch their outputs back to mixer inputs and then run looper||FX, or looper>FX, or FX>looper. Is that the sort of information you're after? >However I do find that whole 'dj' topic a tad bit old and dry. It is. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz