Vedr. Re: How do YOU loop?

[rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no>]

hi !

 

When you talk about "chopping into loop with effecks in feedback-chain, do you uses the fx-loop on your device(EDP) ?

 

Rune f   

 

Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk> skrev:

> r i c k m o n d wrote:
>
> > so what/how does looping function for you?
>
> I recently got into the whole cutting/dividing/replace thing, so getting 
> stuck in the loop has been changed into a one-shot, thank g*d. My looper 
> does adjustable fades when going into replace, so I can do evolving 
> stuff a bit more intuitively than turning down the feedback - also, on 
> longer lines replacing a smaller fragment of the soundscape doesn't mess 
> with the overall structure of the piece, making it a lot less daunting - 
> it
>  basically turns replace into a smooth, dynamic "reduce feedback, then 
> overdub, then increase feedback after going out of overdub"-function, 
> which I really like. (As an aside, do you call it Insert or Replace? I'm 
> not quite hip to the lingo these days :-s )
>
> But the best part still has to be:
> A: Degrading the loop and chopping into it with effects in the feedback 
> chain - highpass filtering is especially good for me - and reversing 
> stuff in there as well.
> B: Changing the loop length in my looper causes divides, not 
> pitch-changes, so I can do a quick 1/16th note stutter burst, jump back 
> out to 1 bar, and the stutters are locked in the loop - all this is 
> probably old news to hardcore EDP-users, but it's pretty new ground for 
> me, so I am very happy with it!
>
> All in all these methods provide some good tools for deconstruction and 
> recontextualization of a soundscape, which are so fun that getting stuck 
> isn't happening all that
>  often - the only times it does is when I get 
> into a really good loop, with succesfull effect chops, good harmonies, 
> really good timing etc in a neat little package. At that point I *need* 
> to sample the loop before moving on, I'm not hardened enough to kill my 
> darlings yet.
>
> I've uploaded a quick mp3 highlighting some of the deconstruction 
> methods I use - the track is an all-live recording, just voice and drum 
> samples being triggered in real-time. I reckon it gets interesting at 1 
> minutes 30 seconds into the song where I start breaking down the loop 
> quite a bit, by going from a 1bar loop to 8bars and chopping away :)
>
> http://thecovertoperators.groc.org/operator_a/Machinate_-_Glimmer.mp3
> (NOTE: mp3-file may or may not contain horrible singing and sloppy 
> hiphop-beats - please disregard! hehe)
>
> Andreas