Re: Looping with Backing Tracks???

["Sean Mormelo" <sean@seanmormelo.com>]

So Mark, you have your drums and backing tracks in DP while the program
controls your hardware looper. So what you are saying if i'm getting this
correctly is that you create all the music exept your drums by live looping
each section of the song which you lay out ahead of time and toggle 
between?
I'm assuming your drums are MIDI but I guess this would work if you were
toggle between loop clips as well. I would want to do it manually instead
because I want the option of skipping to different sections and doing weird
loop stuff on the fly..In other words, I don't want to have a strict
arrangement for every song. Hmm..sounds doable..


Sean Mormelo
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark sottilaro" <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Looping with Backing Tracks???


> I've experimented a bit with this and here's what I
> found works nicely.
>
> Get a software sequencer.  Almost any will do probably
> but I use Digital Performer 4.6.  Why?  I don't know.
> Works though and runs off a laptop easily.  For drums
> I use a combonation of BATTERY2 and Stylus RMX.  Both
> are pretty processor friendly if you don't add a lot
> of effects.
>
> Then I make a track that's a command track for my
> Repeater.  Tells it when to go into record, when to
> stop the record, etc.  I really like having this
> totally automated so I can just play and not have to
> worry about pedals.  Using this method I can create
> verse/chorus/bridge structures very easily and toggle
> between them.  Works really well if you're doing a
> structured song as long as you do a bit of planning.
>
> Of course, you could do the same thing with an EDP as
> well or any hardware looper that'll sync to a midi
> clock and do multiple loops.  Repeater's just my tool
> of choice at the moment.  Could possibily do it in
> software too, but I haven't figured that out quite
> yet.  Seems promising.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> --- Sean Mormelo <sean@seanmormelo.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's my Dilema...I'm getting pretty stale playing
> > solo acoustic and I have my feelers out for
> > bandmembers. I'm starting to do the looping thing I
> > like the idea of the spontineity of it and the fact
> > that the song will take on a unique life every time
> > I play it...I just wish there was a way to integrate
> > the looping in with some backing drums and bass as
> > well but I can' t think of how to make it work with
> > the looping other then cutting each part of and
> > making loops out of them for every song, then
> > triggering those specific parts...like section A, B,
> > Chorus, Bridge, etc etc...Lay it out in Ableton Live
> > with each section of the song in your set having
> > their own unique loops. Then you'd have to hit a
> > MIDI Pedal telling Ableton to loop the section
> > you're on While The MIDI Also arms your EDP or My
> > RC-50 Looper and starts it recording....Or you tell
> > LIVE you want a section to loop at the beginning of
> > it so as to give you time to get ready to trigger
> > your looper manually....Or, just do it all within
> > Abelton Live like KID Beyond and lots of folks are
> > doing it......It's a lot to ponder for certain but I
> > would love to do this for certain shows...If anyone
> > is doing anything similar, I'd love to know your
> > method. I think I need some advice on how to go
> > about setting this up...Thanks.
> >
> > Sean Mormelo
> > www.seanmormelo.com
> > www.myspace.com/seanmormelo
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>
>
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