Re: Looper, instrument or a recorder?

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

It really depends on the user. I'd say most of the users I know
(myself included) still use it as a record/playback device to enhance
their instrument. One rule of thumb might be: how often do you put the
guitar down and just play the looper?

...but I'm pretty strict with my definition of instruments. For
example, I don't consider midi controllers to be instruments either.
(They're interface devices for computers, which are the instruments.)

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Matt Davignon
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Andy Owens <andy@1800dialword.com> was all:
> With all this script talk and etc, it makes me see that in some ways a
> looper starts becoming an instrument vs a record/instantplayback device. 
>At
> some point arent you just really building sounds like you would on a 
>moog or
> something, versus capturing musical sounds that you've played?
> From a business, product veiwpoint it would seem to be the reverse of
> dumbing down a product, to dumb it up so high that it might scare off a
> large percentage of the people that might use it. But I guess thats what 
>the
> boomerang and 2880 etc are there for.
>
> Andy Owens
> 1-800-AndyOwens
> Sent from my iPhone
> So the typing might not be my best!
>