Loop length query

[Dpcoffin@aol.com]

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How many of you folks routinely use loops longer than, say 10
sec.? Maybe it's just because all my loopers max out at 10 sec, or much 
less,
that I've focused my own looping--which isn't what I mainly do,
BTW (sound design and composition come a little ahead of looping, but not 
by 
much, I guess) ---primarily on the rhythms produced by the length of the 
loop 
itself, rather than, say, the phrasing of the loop material, or the 
construction of backing
tracks, making longer looping times less interesting to me than fool-proof,
flexible, interactive and intuitive loop control, and multi-tap, panning, 
and 
other rhythmic possibilities inherent in complex stereo delays. My GT-5, 
VG-8...even the
sold-and-now-missed Vortex have all provided MUCHO Looping fun at well 
under 2
sec.
When I DO go for a longer "backing" loop, I tend to set up some FX to blur 
or 
annihilate the sense of a repeat within a fairly sparse harmonic looping 
texture using a slow LFO or a filter or phaser.
Comments on how you use longer loops, or don't, welcome....
David Coffin