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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Simeon Harris <simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote: > the chords i have set up at the moment are all in the same key, but it >might > be fun to tweak the rate shifts a bit and get some more unusual >sounds.... Interesting, Sim! Would love to hear what it sounds like. I use a pedalboard bank to speed shift all four loops into octave and fifth chords according to a nine step scale. For some chord in the scale one loop may be shifted -5 instead of +7 for the reason of better sound (generally pitching down sounds better in ensemble than pitching up). At chords where a particular loop is pitched up my script also brings down the output level of that loop to have it not jump out of the mix and sound bad. Just like you I find it great fun to test different source sounds. With guitar or Stick I may record chords but if I'm finding it a hard challenge to use thirds, because when speed transformed a fifth they may induce chord coloring I don't like. I'm more for the minimal concept of sequencing sparse and leave room for melody parts to imply minor or major chord coloring. This stuff can easily get too big for you to handle. BTW, I set up my Record Pedal script as a long press script that will reset the selected track (deleting this track's loops) on a long press. Then I use the statement "if" to make the script start out with a "global reset" before going Recored etc and this happens "if selected track is in reset mode". I'm finding this very helpful when peforming as a way to "get out" of the for parallel loops situation and start over a new four-loops texture. What I do then is a long press on the Record button followed by a short press to start over. It would be really cool some time to have a Mobius clinic! Sit down for a couple of hours and show each other what we use different scripts for. I remember in Zürich we had such a gathering the day after the Looping Festival in 2005. It was especially interesting to hear vocalist Michael Schiefel explain how he runs two un-synced EDP's and a harmonizer controlled by MIDI Sysex from a mini synth keyboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI111PUVStk Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com www.looproom.com internet music hub