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Re: rePeter~

Tanks Mark,

We'll all have hairy hands by the end of the week.

I tried finding banana'a at large, but their webpage is gone or down. I have been watching on ebay for a repeater. SHould have bought one for 400$ when that was the going rate for a used one, or when gc closed them out.

I'll get one. I'm a bad little sniper.

~Peter.




 
>From: Mark
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: rePeter~
>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 10:47:29 -0800
>
>YAY! FRESH MEAT. Welcome to the list and all that.
>
>water cat wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well here's a new looper fresh to the list. My name is Peter Hutter,
> > and I'm about to purchase a repeater (repeter?)
>
>Are you awear that the Repeater is no longer in production? Still able
>to obtain service for them via TC Electronics, but as far as seeing a
>new Repeater out of a factory, the closest you're going to get is seeing
>some of it's componants stuffed in a Karaoke machine. (sadly true) Some
>time ago there was a lone one at Banana's At Large in San Rafael CA, but
>I don't know if it's still there. If you can't find a retail store with
>one, your best bet is probably eBay at this point. Used they are
>selling for about what they went for new.
>
>
> >
> > I wish to make virtual dixieland with the repeater, all with saxes
> > for now. Bari, tenor and alto. I also love the idea of being able to
> > pull the different tracks in and out, and am specifically thinking of
> > this with the spoken word community.
>
>That sounds like a job for the Repeater all right. Another possiblility
>would be to use a Mac and Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer 3.
>It's got a really nice function called POLAR (performance orientated
>loop assisted recording) that mimics a lot of what the Repeater can do.
>Get yourself a *lot* of RAM though.
>
> >
> > I also was thinking of the repeater as a way to create a sax
> > section in a band. You have a musical motif being repeated by the
> > group, you add a sax section kind of part, loop it, ad a harmony, etc.
> > I imagine that all of these ideas aren't new in concept, but I'd love
> > any feedback on this anyone is willing to offer, especially as it
> > relates to time magazine, brian eno, and scurrilous something or
> > others.
>
>I've had mixed results with playing with other musicians and loops.
>I've done a bunch of stuff with drummer John Wagner and Chapman Stick
>player Jon El-Bizri and they're amazing. They know loops and it
>*works*. Then there are the not so loop orientated. Usually I find
>these are people that have less than perfect timing/tempo control. It
>can be difficult. Even if you get musicians that are good at timing, it
>is often hard to hear the loop and people can drift. Experimentation
>and practice should yield results though. Don't be discouraged if it
>doesn't happen right away.
>
> >
> > Off topic the list may have been, and that was a lot of emails to
> > get there for a while, but I dug most of it and it was refreshing to
> > hear some other leftist wackos wack off for a bit.
> >
> >
>Damn, I hate it when people can hear me wack off! I'M GOING BLIND!
>
>Mark Sottilaro

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