RE: Short loop fades more quickly than long loop with same feedbacksetting

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I hope this is not being a nit-picking jerk, but... (that's never stopped 
me
before)

The points seem to be tied to specific looping implementations. Other ways
of thinking about this are possible. For instance, in my multi-tracked
private looper (which may someday see release, but is mainly just my own
instrument for now), I use the concepts of "aging" and "fading" instead of
feedback - the volume of every recorded track goes down a (customizable)
notch when I record a new track ("aging"), and then I have a separate fade
function which can be triggered on any track or on the collection, which
takes an absolute time as a parameter. If I wished, I could easily modify
the code to set, say, a 2-minute autofade on every track right after it
starts playing back, or create an alternate end trigger for record or
overdub that does this. (I can also "unfade" any track back to its original
volume level after that).

Best wishes,
Warren Sirota


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill [mailto:rs@moinlabs.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:30 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: AW: Short loop fades more quickly than long loop 
> with same feedback setting
> 
> 
> ...actually, they fade at the same speed in the calibration 
> system of loop length, so I assume perceiving it as "fading 
> more quickly" is true only for ambient people (see "The 
> Beatless" ;), as compared to beat driven people who always 
> have two-measure-long loops (at different bpms, though). 
> 
> > On the Moebius mailing list we were talking about why shorter
> > loops fade out more quickly than longer loops with the same 
> > feedback setting.
>