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greetings.
I changed my account - havent followed list
for a while now.
anyway I am now back and have some questions to
make about current looping situation in side of equipments.
First couple words about our project to
explain my needs.:
Rihmasto is experimental ambient project from
Finland (founded 1996). We are two
member project: Jarkko Lahti is the man behind keyboards mainly
and he has all the musictheory needed and he
is the one who took piano lessons for years and
years just to forget them :) Me besides I am mainly
the
person who is behind samples, effecting, looping,
synth triggering and other misc leftovers from Jarkko.
Our projects website is (SPAMSPAM) www.rihmasto.com and there is some music that
we have made (a lot of mp3's).
Currently we are planning DVD with surround
sound - this is studioproject where is very little live looping if at all.
But we do play live gigs as well
and there I need some advice to expand our current
setup with some sort of box that works for looping (besides computer with 6
channel output).
Please check our music so you know that this
is really ambient, droney soundsurfaces... most our live gigs are totally
experimental improvised during
set.
About our current all the time changing
equipment list (most own some on loan).:
Korg (Wavestation, 01/W, Polysix, Electribe ER-1)
synths
Yamaha AW4416 digital
workstation/mixer
Roland JP8000 synth
Behringer MX602A and MX802A mixers
Behringer Virtualizer PRO effect
Alesis Midiverb II effect
Lexicon MXP15 multieffect (or what it is - belongs
to Jarkko and never remember model number anyway that with many pedal
connectors)
Didgeridoo's, diy drums...
CD's, MD's, DAT's as needed
PC /w AMD XP2000+, 512Mb, lot of HD, E-Magic EMI
2/6 usb soundcard... (can be MAC Powerbook G3 400Mhz 128Mb when
needed)
etc. dont remember all :)
Because style of our music we have used
prerecorded and manipulated samples on Cd's etc. but have not been able to
control over them except
some basic effects found from Virtualizer etc. and
EQ :) but those are almost readymade before but on CD... anyway I want to expand
from this,
get more control over samples with somekind of
effect.. perhaps KAOSS PAD or similar would be one but I prefer something
looping device so I could
use live recordings and other things on set. Also
giving up using CD's would be nice things to do...
We have next gig next month and need to make
setup for that. I plan to do some basic surround experimental things since I
know the guy who mixes
evening and I know that he can make it work for
quadrophonic surround if needed... Anyway I would like to leave CD's home
:)
I can use PC on set as I have used before but
usually its just something I use over loops, samples and what Jarkko does
play.
It's like Jarkko plays some tunes, drones and
controls them.. I add some samples / loops that works with it and Jarkko lives
with it and again my turn to
react that. kind of interesting since you
never know what next happens (I have quite big collection of sounds for each gig
but use only perhaps 1% of them).
Perhaps some prepared vinylplayers and
tapeplayers would work with this but dont have anything any longer since those
keep getting malfunctions.. :)
Now for final words and questions what I
would like to ask from you who have worked with looping tools and know what
suites best for our kind of project.
What is currently best and cheapest choice (need to
expand mics and other equipment over loopingtoy :) for ambient looping. Making
seamless loops and
soundsurfaces man can control during live
gigs.
Also if I need to use software only (as I
need before getting hardware) what would you prefer for me? Have used "Back To
Basics" for mac but it is too
simple and not really that interactive as I would
like it to be.
Also good working tips for ambient looping
overall..
thanks,
Jukka Andersson
ambient project rihmasto
FINLAND
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