RE: Looperlative - Max Time?

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, I'm with you Rick.  I always thought my JamMan's
32sec total limit to be more than enough time.  When I
found out the Looperlative's specs I felt that they
were pretty generous.  I think if you need more than
that you're probably better off with some other sort
of device like a multitrack recorder.  If you don't
care about feedback Digital Performer's POLAR is a
great looper that allows as much time as you have ram
for.

Mark

--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> about the Looperlative's maximum recording time,
> mrweasel wrote:
> 
> "That's not a lot.
> Any way to upgrade to 512Mb or even 256Mb?"
> 
> 
> I have to ask:    what on earth  would you do with
> more than almost
> 1 minute a track in stereo for 8 tracks in a live
> looping situation?
> 
> Quite frankly,  unless you are laying individual
> percussion sounds for a 
> rhythm track,
> how frequently would you even use 8 tracks in a
> single piece of music?
> 
> The concept of timbral masking rears it's ugly head
> if you start piling too 
> much stuff
> onto a track.
> 
> Even if you are running long ambient loops in a
> piece,  how many of those 
> tracks
> would you run at any given instance?
> 
> Unless you are going, purposefully for a muddy mess
> one isn't going to run 
> more than
> three or possibly for such tracks at a time.   That
> would give you four 
> stereo
> tracks at almost two minutes apiece.
> 
> You can't even perceive  a loop that is two minutes
> long as a loop.
> 
> Sorry, but I just had to get that off of my chest.
> 
> peevishly, but not without some sense of humor,  
> Rick
> 
> ps and forgive me, mrweasel,  I don't know that
> actual answer to your 
> question, but Bob Amstadt, the designer can answer
> it
> at the forum at www.looperlative.com. 
> 
> 


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