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Re: Loop software with varispeed

i vote for rate shift, is cooler dudes!

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--- On Thu, 11/13/08, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote:

> From: mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>
> Subject: Re: Loop software with varispeed
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 12:19 PM
> Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well, at least I have been using "rate
> sequence". It's especially cool
> > for playing chord change vamps all within the same
> loop (Mark
> > Francombe suggested this, but never mentioned it's
> a Mobius feature).
> 
> 
> Actually I forgot, it always crashed when I was checking
> out Mobius Mac, so
> I never tried it!
>  I have gotten a new PC since but have yet to try Mobius on
> it... my love
> affair with Mobius turned out to be a teenage crush... I
> shall return, no
> doubt, but I need time.
> 
> So I actually thought that up myself, without thinking, or
> maybe Mobius
> functionality is buried deep in my personality, having
> reprogrammed my
> psyche and all Jeff has to do is type !Autoload KILL and
> the world (at least
> the looping world) is his?
> 
> 
> > However, I rather prefer binding foot pedals directly
> to the different
> > rate shift values, so I can vary the order in which I
> jump between
> > different chords.
> >
> 
> But this makes me think, isnt all this "Rate shift is
> cooler than Time
> Stretch" talk a bit nonsensical.. Im interested to
> hear you use this Per...
> Im certain you can use octave and maybe 5ths, but isnt ANY
> other rate gonna
> RYTHYMICALLY crash with the beat/pulse of your music. Now
> Im all for weird
> shit, but RATE shift a bit of a one trick pony (Like the
> afformentioned, by
> me actually) Tape slow down effect, we have all used at the
> ind of a gig). I
> promise I am only talking here, not having ever TRIED rate
> shift on Mobius,
> I have no idea what Im talking about... But isnt Repeater
> style TIME STRETCH
> more musically usefull?
> 
> Mark
> 
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