Re: HuMaNiZiNg cold DRUM MACHINES

["Peter Todd" <peter_todd82@yahoo.co.uk>]

Use a computer.
:-)

 Reaktor has an online user library were people have put up all kinds of
drum machines, looping tools, you name it.  These can be controlled by 
midi,
and made to interact with each other / trigger changes etc.  Many
possibilities for more spontaneous improv.

pd is free but less accessable.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louie Angulo" <laab2000us@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: HuMaNiZiNg cold DRUM MACHINES


> I would like to know how many of us loopers are
> utilizing drum machines live.Some people shy away from
> them because they tend to sound sterile and
> repetitive, others sequence the patterns so they donīt
> sound so repetitive but i find a lot of people still
> find this live "not very authentic"...
> I had a lot of fun playing with Rick and watching him
> syncronize his voice drum loops to mine, he is
> brilliant at building organic drum loops with his
> voice, utensils etc. but at the same time i enjoy
> hearing Claude Voits drum machine syncronized pattern
> changes triggered by the EDP.
> I tend to just let a drum loop run from my Boss dr 660
> and constantly record new loops into the EDP, using it
> simply more like a backing track but i would like to
> use it more intuitively and make it more spontaneous
> to my  live loop improvisations.
> so i would like your
> opinions,techniques,recomendations is a sampler better
> than a groove box ? or a drum machine? Which ones
> work well with the EDP and how do you employ them
> live?
> Louie
>
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