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Per, Nice track! Inspiring -- makes me want to try a few things with my sequencer, some cc event tracks, and my modular synth. :) It does seem that looping tends to focus on capturing audio and, in turn, replaying and manipulating the captured audio. I've sometimes wondered if to loop MIDI events (note and other) is outside of the "aesthetic" of live looping -- I've never posed the question. I've just forged ahead with audio looping. With some sequencing environments (such as Cubase), one cannot separate the a note event from its corresponding velocity value -- a definate disadvantage. However, as you mention, one could loop modulation data on a separate track and play it with another track that contains the note data. My (now vintage) Dr. T's software (KCS) had an interesting feature -- it would convert mod wheel values to velocity values and imbed them in the note messages (this was so you could address velocity-sensitive equipment from a fixed-velocity keyboard). (I must admit, I miss the KCS environment.) Anyway, I'm off on a tangent (again) so I'll just hit <send> before I go completely off into some other area. -- Kevin Quoting Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > I remember people having posted questions concerning "MIDI looping" > and I never really understood what that should be. But now I think I > have found out: it must be what also is knows as Discrete Sequencing! > I.e. when you create musical patterns by running different sequencers > for each aspect of the music. I just tried this with Numerology and > got hooked! :-)) Check out this live set I just recorded: > > http://www.perboysen.com/Numerology2_20090506.mp3 > > I used three different "loops" to create > 1) Pitch > 2) Gate/Duration > 3) Velocity > > All three sequencers looping at different lengths, which gave a nice > organically evolving feel the the music. Gate/Duration created at a 4 > 16th note steps loop and Velocity at a 6 16th note steps loop. As for > Pitch I used 16 steps but then I had a second sequencer modulating > this sequencer at five two bar steps as well as an LFO randomizing the > 16 pitch steps every two or three bar, something. This is all > happening in what Numerology calls "the CV domain", i.e. pure control > data. The final module is a "Note Generator Module" that creates MIDI > out of the CV streams so a soft synth can be driven. At the Note > Generator stage I'm also "quantizing pitch" into the key B major - > every note event taking on the pitch of the closest B major note. > > If someone is interested in this, there is a good introduction (with > accurate references to Eric Tamm in "Robert Fripp : from King Crimson > to Guitar Craft" and gamelan) to read at > http://www.five12.com/t3.html > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > >