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I stopped trying to do such a thing with other
musicians,maybe for one or two songs,if i use loops
with bands at all i just use it as a special effect
like short reverse sounds,half speed drones or build
ambient sounds in the background that dont interfere
with the bands or my energy,the DL4 or other
unquantisized loopers can work really nice for things
like that,youŽd be surprise how many musicans who
master their instrument quite well cannot follow a
simple drum machine.Ive also found that it works
better with less musicians like a duo than with a
whole band,a lot of it relies on good stage monitoring
to start with which is still a gamble to this day...
But if u do want to use a looper that has the
functions to adapt to a human beings tempo in realtime
their isnt any other that come close to the EDP!
Luis
--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 okt 2007, at 10.08, Buzap Buzap wrote:
>
> > To make a long story short: What looping features
> & skills do you
> > need to be able to play live with other musicians?
> > How do you keep in sync and keep up with tempo
> properly (acoustic
> > instruments only and no drummer with a midi
> trigger)?
>
>
> In my experience the EDP is excellent for this. The
> trick is to not
> loop all the time and always be prepared delete your
> loop in a blink
> to react on what is happening in the group.
>
> 1) On the EDP you can always hit Record to erase
> everything and start
> a new loop and the second time you hit Record (or
> any alternative
> ending) you're in a new loop that is syncing to the
> new "acoustic"
> tempo.
>
> 2) I also keep one button to instantly retrigger the
> loop ("stutter").
>
> 3) I the group tempo changes while I'm working a
> floating, non
> rhythmic, loop I might simply go Multiply-Record to
> cut it down to a
> duration that loops in synk.
>
> This kind of "looper abuse" is not possible with
> Mobius on a laptop,
> although Mobius does well handle most EDP tricks and
> adds its own.
> This good live synk functionality is the reason I
> still keep my old
> EDP. I can't think of any bette way to sync
> electronics than an EDP
> used in the above described way. The longer loop you
> create the more
> accurate will the sync be. I typically start out
> with two or one bars.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
>
>
>
>
>
www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
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