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Interesting thread! A lot of useful techniques has been listed, but I think the challenge is to pick a few and learn to play well with them. I'm constantly working on cutting down my arsenal of options to increase the performance power and musical versatility. One important way for me is to make commands instantly available at many locations. So if I happen to be at a different MIDI foot pedalboard bank page than the page that host my Overdub Button I may just reach out a hand instead and push a button on a table top mixer or a laptop key to move into Overdub Mode. Etc, etc... Another method I favor is to use one controller to control many parameters in the looping rig. This is also knows as morphing. Again, the looper is an instrument and as all instruments the lighter touch it takes the better it plays. Setting up expression pedals for morphing is similar to adjusting intonation to stringed instrument. A little change at one place affects other parts too and everything is inter related. Working with feedback you have to find the precise sweetspot where the loop stays hovering in space without dying away or exploding into overload mess. An interesting area is to place one end of the control range a bit above the safety level, meaning it will explode into overload unless you don't keep working the loop at a certain pace. Generally I like to keep loops rather static, I kind of like that. One has to listen while playing though, because there will come a point in time where some change has to be induced or the whole static loop thing will start sounding lame (as opposed to mesemizing). Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen