Re: Re: Software vs Hardware loopers

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

It was a joke Rick, 

Ever since 1982 when I started looping with 2 tape decks, excluding a small glitch of 8 years while I performed with a hot pop combo, I have looped...
Now I am delving tentatively into the world of laptop, specifically for the festival, I am putting together a stompbox pedalboard comprising things that can emulate my rack setup, including 3 pitchshifters 2 ring modulators , right now trying to get them to sequence using a harware sequncer... this will be hopefully synch to the laptop where I shall run Mobius within Live, there will be some minimal rythym programmed in Live, and I am working on some patches that take random bits of the mobius loop and RE-loop them but from behind a collection of ADSRs and filters to add to the pre-prgrammed rythym., this will hopfully emulate somewhat how I use my modular synth.

Im doing this WITHOUT any good, or expensive hardware however.. no nice soundcards will you find in MY setup, to latency and hiss will be in integral part of the perfomance, I expect...

Or I may just loop with no effects.. did that last night for three hours and it was like a load lifted off my brow...

Mark

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

Yes,   Mark,    you HAVE to loop at Y2K-X and furthermore,  in real time if you want to perform there.

There are so many people who want to perform anywhere and there are so many people who
use pre-recorded loops in their live performances who want to play anywhere that
I have become extremely narrow on this definition for acceptance to perform at the loopfestival......
otherwise I would be overwhelmed with eager applicants.

It is a LIVE LOOPING Festival...............not just a looping festival and not a typical music festival.

If anyone performs at the festival,  they need to have LIVE LOOPING at the heart of their aesthetic
and performance.

I am immovable on this point.      I think I have to be.

I had a very famous act play last years festival and though,  I enjoyed their performances, they just
basically played over the top of pre-recorded loops.   As famous as they are,  they won't be playing
again this year unless they are willing to change their mode to include real time live looping:
Creating musical loops in real time in front of the audience.   LIVE LOOPING!

respectfully,   Rick Walker  (for the Y2K-X 10th Anniversary International Live Looping Festival)

mark francombe wrote:

At YK2X, Im planning the best of both worlds... normal stompboxes, and laptop for looping.. if lappy goes down... I have enough glitchy, delayish, pitchy, filtery, pedals, that no one will notice anyway.. in fact... maybe Ill just leave the laptop at home?
In the same way that one MUST use Boss and the Boss competition,  do I HAVE to loop at YK2X?
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