Re: MIDI sync survey: is it important to you?

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

--- S V G <vsyevolod@yahoo.com> wrote:

>      So is MIDI sync important to me?  Not at all...
> at this time.  I don't have a clue what I
> would do with it.  Perhaps I'm just not seeing the
> potential?  Enlighten me please.  How many
> different ways do YOU find MIDI sync useful?

I didn't start this with any intention of initiating a
"value" perameter to to using MIDI sync. (pun
intended)  I'm not saying it's better or worse, just a
different way of working.  Hell, some of my most fun
loops are me a guitar and a Boss Gigadelay.

There's nothing "enlightening" about it.  It's just
it.  As a child of the 80s I grew up listening to a
lot of music that used drum machines.  I love that
machine sound.  I think it was Rick Walker that said,
"When I use a drum machine I want it to sound like a
machine... an appliance like a washing machine"  I'm
paraphrasing and I'm not even sure if it was Rick, but
I totally dig that idea.  When I found that I could
incorporate live performance with a drum machine I
really dug it... the feel of something organic
juxtaposed with something very much not, yet locked to
it.

I still used unsynced loops all the time, but like
Per, I want a foundation there I can reference.  The
play that happens between the synced and the unsynced
can be beautiful if done purposely.  

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