R: Looper or multitrack?: (Was Looping Therapy)

["luca" <lucafeed@tin.it>]

I feel the same, also if one of the most fascinating things of looping 
stays
in its temporal weakness.
Anyway I am now considering to buy a sampler where I could record my 
"mother
loops".
I am also sure that, once I will have it, something will change in my
approach.
A few months ago I have had an intense opinion exchange with LD: I thought
that the most of the loopers where accepting looping as a realtime and
volatile event, I have been surprised to notice that the most of you was
already using samplers.
In a few weeks I will be part of this company too, but there is a strange
feeling in doing this step.
Luca.

Btw, I use multitrack since a lot of years, but that is a matter of
composition, different from looping.

----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Goldstein <ngold@home.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:35 PM
Subject: Looper or multitrack?: (Was Looping Therapy)


>
> This is an interesting topic. And I have experienced some consciousness
> change and entrainment through interacting with my loops.
>
> This is somewhat related but slightly askew of the topic:
>
> One of the biggest obstacles to the (self) therapy is that 9 times out of
10
> I create something in the EDP that I want to record (to disk) and use as 
>a
> foundation for a composition. And often I wish I would have recorded the
> instruments/lines on separate tracks from the start.  But now in the
> 'perfection' of the moment, they're all on one mono track! Of course an
> entirely different type of music and feel results from starting on a 
>multi
> track, and doing take after take, etc.
>
> It creates a whole new sense of being a player/composer that the loops 
>can
> go for hours or weeks if you don't reset or turn off the power, but are
gone
> the instant you do. I often get too 'attached' or regret having wiped the
> slate, or suffer some anxiety in deciding betwixt the two.
>
> There are things I'd never be able to re-create and this creates a sense
of
> 'scarcity' so I get overly 'precious' with the current loops.
>
> How do others deal with this? (hope I made myself clear)
>
>
> Neil
>
>