Re: I'm really sorry...

[Greg Waltzer <gwaltzer@optonline.net>]

If you want multiple loops playing at the same time, I think your choices 
are
limited to the repeater (4 loops) or a laptop running a software looper 
such as
ambiloop.

Amleto wrote:

> Ciao Miko!
> Thanks for replying!
> I wait for your answer, i would just please you and the others to follow 
>the
> numbers i wrote about what i would like. This is for me to be able to
> understand better. Especially if you will use a simple english and will
> explain tecnic terms... And so to just write for each number what the 
>other
> loopers you know do or not. Also the boss, because even reading the boss
> site i still am not able to understand tecnical caracteristics...
> I need to control the sound in real time, and to not stop to act to 
>control
> it. Well, to act with the voice i mean. So, if i start with one loop, and
> then i add more loops, if after i need just the first loop, or even not 
>the
> first, any one of the loops alone, i would like to be able to have it 
>alone.
> If i have to reach this be deleting the others one by one it could be ok,
> even if not perfect. Could be interesting a "solo" function. If there are
> memories for a number of loop could be easy to have such a function, i 
>don't
> understand why loopers seem not to have it. This is the more important. 
>To
> be able to create a atmospheare with a loop on the other and the to go 
>back
> in the order i want or at least from the last to the first. I don't
> understand if in hte boss i have to delete all the loops togheter.
> After comes the possibility to control time, pitch and volume of any 
>loop.
> Anyway, if it is for the global loop it could be good the same.
> I absolutely neeed more than two loops. I wouold like as much as i want, 
>but
> anyway, as more as possible, the number and the timing, i mean how long 
>they
> are.
> If there is a number, it would be useful to be able to choose wich loop 
>to
> change for the new one. I mean, if there are only ten loops, it would be 
>not
> good if the last delete the last, or the last delete the first. I would 
>like
> to decide wich one to delete.
> Even if i don't understand: there is a difference beetween number of 
>loops
> and number of overdubbings? The number of loop means the number of 
>memories
> i can control (end, volume, tempo) separately, and each of this memory i 
>can
> overdub it as much as i want? Or to overdub mean always to create a new
> loop?
> Well, i will not bore you anymore.
> Thanks!
> Sergio
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MIKO
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 4:58 AM
> Subject: RE: I'm really sorry...
>
> Will think about a reply and send to you personally, Mr. To Die For.  By
> this I do not mean the first HTML reply that I sent.
>
> I may not know the answer, but I hate leaving desperate souls in states 
>of
> complete  self-reliance.  It's best to offer clues until they make it to 
>the
> space of their own insight, at least.
>
> Sorry to others for posting this advance-of-reply reply.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amleto [mailto:tosleeptodienomore@supereva.it]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:46 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: I'm really sorry...
>
> I'm really sorry, excuse me, i sended you my mail in html, i was sure it 
>was
> turned off..., i repeat it now:
>
> Hallo all You,
> I'm Sergio, I'm writing from italy, and I'm sorry for my english...
> I have a problem and the solution it is urgent!
> I have ordered a boss rc20 thinking it was the only looper. And now i 
>know
> maybe it is the worse. Or anyway not the one i need. I have really a few
> time to stop the order. Well, i could try tomorrow even if you not 
>answer me
> and wait for your answer. i'll do it, but i hope you'll answer soon...
> I am a young actor, even if my interests in music are strong.
> I saw a show by an alternative japanese group who did something in real 
>time
> with voice. Very dramatic! I think they where using something like delay 
>too
> and echo and reverb, but mostly they used loop. Sound on sound...
> I find it very useful.
> Well, i will explain what i would like from a looper:
> 1)to be able to record a sound which can last long (the global loop 
>should
> definitively last longer that 10 seconds or 20. At least 1 or 2 minutes i
> think, even if it is difficult to know it now without any practical
> experience. I should create a sonic atmosphere on wich to act. So i would
> use it for voice, or maybe also keyboard. And i think i will need a long
> time).
> 2)to be able to record other sounds on the first one, overdub, sound on
> sound, i think those are the terms.
> 3)to be able to change the time of the global loop, and, if it is 
>possible,
> of a single loop. Yes, I would really like to be able to change time to 
>each
> loop. I know from your site that most of the looper have a limited time 
>and
> limited loops. If there was limited time but unlimited loops could have 
>been
> impossible to remember the position of a single loop. But with 10, for
> example, i could. And would be useful to be able to change volume and 
>tempo,
> and also pitch, of each loop.
> 4)to be able to let me choose which loop to stop. In the order i want. 
>If i
> have ten loops going on, i would like to stop all for a while and then 
>start
> all again, and then to stop the first, then the fourth, then the last, 
>for
> example. At least the last, and the new last, and so on, alias, 10, 9, 
>8, 7,
> 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. even if i should remember the order of any loop... I
> would prefer to be able to stop in the order i prefer. It would be
> unpleasant just to have to stop all or nothing! I could rerecord some of 
>the
> loops again, but i should act while loops are playing, so i cant stop 
>acting
> to sing a loop again...
> 5)to be able to choose both two of these: that if for example i have two
> loops, and the first is shorter, i should both let the first go on
> continuosly even is going out of phase, or let the first wait the end of 
>the
> second and then to start again togheter...
> That's all. For a looper.
> If i could have some effects... I would like delay, reverb. Basically.
> Wonderfull if distortion, echo, and others...
> Edp seems the right one. But it is at least the double of price. I'm 
>buying
> a boss rc20 for 375 euro, i think the same in $$. I don't know, i would
> remain without money but if you tell me that with the boss i can only 
>record
> ten loops and let them go togheter and stop them togheter, mmm. Also i 
>think
> to understand that edp has got some effect. Dl4 too, but the time of a 
>loop
> is really too short. For me. I just have fear that i can't find here in
> sicily the memories to upgrade the time of the edp to those 3 minutes 
>that
> should be enough for me.
> CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME???
> So, i am truely (i sincerely would not like to let you loose your time 
>if i
> could loose it for you) unable to understand by myself wich one of all 
>the
> possibilities does what i want.
>  ah, all in real time absolutely, live performance...
> I sincerely thanks you...
> Sergio