Re: Off-Topicers Delight! and 'Stutter'

[Catilyne <catilyne@icicle.net>]

At 07:32 PM 1/4/2003 -0800, Kim Flint wrote:

>Other things in my life leave me without much time to participate here 
>lately, but I do still read the list most days. Over the last few months 
>I've noticed with increasing dismay that almost no discussion about 
>looping takes place here anymore. An off topic post once in a while 
>doesn't hurt anybody, but Looper's Delight now appears to be 95% 
>off-topic!

Well, I'll be the first to cop to blatantly straying off-topic at a 
moment's notice (and why not: some of the most interesting conversations 
I've had in my almost-15-years of electronic networking can be directly 
blamed on topic-drift).  Likewise, I'll certainly agree that several of 
the 
conversations I've helped along are contrary to the stated mission of the 
list -- self-moderated or not.

However, I would also argue that many of those same message threads -- 
while not expressly on-charter with the groups purpose -- have helped in 
part to further solidify the members of this group as a community, rather 
than just a disparate group of people reading email.  If this were a BBS, 
I'd suggest actually creating an area which would act as a "Looper's 
Support Group" -- a Looper's Cafe', if you will -- where otherwise 
senseless banter and off-topic threads by the Looper Community would be 
perfectly acceptable.  Perhaps a second list is worth considering... or 
perhaps not.

Finally, as an act of contrition (and to make certain this message doesn't 
completely devolve into navel-gazing) I'd like to offer this up:

I was poking around the FXPansion site a couple of days ago and came 
across 
their 'skunkworks' (betatest/experimental) area.  One of the free plugins 
available for download from the site is a widget called Stutter.  Stutter 
will allow you to do realtime sampling, mapping, and looping of up to four 
simultaneous samples in real-time.

You can download Stutter at: http://www.fxpansion.com/skunkworks/skunk.php

I know it's probably closer to a phrase-sampler than an actual looper 
(hey, 
cut me a little slack).  But if FXPansion were to add a couple more key 
features (feedback, an effects loop), they might be starting to approach a 
software emulation of the Repeater.

Hope you can get some use out of it....

         -c-

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