Re: the death of the loop

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Ace Ovil <aovil@wfubmc.edu> wrote:
>  Anyone else on here use a similar technique?

Yes. I run the looper at the setting to "switch at cycle" and this
gives me time after having pressed NextLoop (or a direct call like
"Loop 4") to add the command Multiply before the switch happens. This
copies the recent loop's content to the new loop and well in the new
loop I replace short segments here and there, mostly slices like a 32d
note duration. Then I go back to the orignal loop and fetch a copy to
a third loop slot where I do the same procedure but a little
differently.

I started this technique on the EDP and took it with me when migrating
to Möbius that works the same in this regard. With Möbius you also
have the option of stepping back the Undo/Redo history chain, but I
like the first method better since it always lets you go back to the
orignal in just a blink.

As you are saying, the challenge is to do it without destroying the
musical material. With Mobius I use a script that lets me replace a
slice of audio in the loop with a slice of my live playing audio
stream but pitch changed one octave. When doing that I often play the
same melody that already is in the loop while substituting slices, and
the result will be a kind of granular version of the original melody
with some horrific octave jumps at odd places. Don't know if it sounds
good to others but it is a lot of fun!

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com