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Been around for a while, but haven't seen a discussion on triggered gating applications in this context. Either something you can do to loops, or interesting source material for further looping. Good for bringing in a rhythmic element to dense textured loops, as well as de-densifying them somewhat. Basic permutation: Use a triggered gate and feed the wet output of one delay line (or loop, or drum machine, etc) into the trigger input, and the output of your looper to the gated input. The triggering input signal ought to have distinct peaks (no dense drones), or it won't be a good trigger. I've found that damped strings and pick noise work well enough (and is MUCHO fun), as well as the obivous drum machines/loops, rope-on-a-stick (with piezo pickups), etc. Wackier permutations: Use TWO triggered gates and trigger sources as above. Variation One: use the same trigger signal to alternately open and close two separate gates with different source signals. Variation Two: Polyrhythms, use two entirely different triggers/gated signals. It gets out of hand from there .... My first experiment with this was when I was working in a small project recording studio. We close-miked a trap set and then used aux sends to feed the different drums to delay units that fed triggered gates operating on a variety of other signals, guitars, keyboards, etc. Really messy, not very musical at times, but loads of laughs, I gotta tell ya. Best, Mike