Re: Critique of Critique of Feedback at Max

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

Of course you are totally right Rick!
Since we can do great music without any loop tool, we certainly can 
with one that has no FB control!
Besides, I was not quite so much referring to the estetics of the 
result but the experience of creating the music. Often music comes 
with music. You call a spirtit with a tune and it tells you how 
another tune goes.
When you introduce a new soloist on stage, the other musicians step 
back a little...

I could have said: The most important feature to a LOOP tool after a 
tap tempo recording function and some way to overdubb is a 
controllable FeedBack.
But this would have been just an opinion, too, as Andre explains he 
uses other functions to evolve...

Another point of view: We spend about 1/4 of the processor power with 
the multiplication and filter that provides smooth Feedback 
control... so my mother would say: Since you spent $150 on that 
feature, you gotta use it! LOL!

But in my heart, yes, I think we really need to learn to live with 
conscious fading. Its a mission, yes. It has to do with cleaning out, 
not becoming attached, possesive...
Sure I want to be tolerant with the ones that dont agree, but I hate 
revolutions and to avoid them, we have to be able to let older things 
fade in peace to make space for all the new things to happen. If we 
cut the old, the new has no base and is more likely to come out wrong.
You could compare the DL4 to the Bible :-) : Fill it until its thick 
and then let it run without change until you trash it all together 
(possibly with a war...)

As stig sais, you can do it with output volume fading, too. But then 
it leads to the use of several loopers or tracks... a much bigger 
technical and operational effort for some more flexibility - a little 
less organic, maybe...?
A good point actually: The FB makes that all old stuff fade at the 
same rate, which is not the ideal, if we think of history in general. 
Some currents (movements, ideas, chapters...) have to fade quicker 
than others... so this may be easier to simbolize with a looper for 
each current... we will get to that technology without covering the 
whole stage with DL4s ;-)

And he also questioned:
***if people are making good/great music with the tools at hand, why 
must they be taught something different?

I guess that those who are perfectly happy with their great music are 
not on that list.
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