Re: Staying on the Looping topic

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

I also have to mention that(and u ol timers know what
i am talking about) there was a time when this list
became a battlefield and offensive which was
absolutely uneccesary and uneducational yet that didnt
seem to be "off topic" and moderation was left up to
us.I personally dont mind deviations as long as we can
learn something and is related to what we are doing.
Luis



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

> I agree with much of what Kim said in terms of
> people disciplining 
> themselves to stay on the
> topic of looping and I have probably been as guilty
> of that as anyone.
> 
> That being said,  I do want to beg to differ about
> this statement:
> 
> "This list is not here to discuss computer
> problems, or favorite VST effects, or DAW
> recommendations........
> (just to pick on a few random, recent off-topics.)"
> 
> 
> The fact of the matter is that the major innovations
> in the real time 
> looping world in the past three or so
> years have been mostly in the computer software
> realm.
> 
> With the exception of the Looperlative there have
> not been very many 
> innovations in the hardware world
> at all (with the exception of more powerful floor
> effects pedals like the 
> Boss RC 50).
> 
> Consequently,  discussions about things like DAW
> recommendations (because 
> live looping VSTs HAVE
> to be hosted somewhere in your laptop) or VST
> effects,  which have 
> everything to do with how your music
> is manifest if you are using a laptop computer set
> up to loop live are 
> extremely pertinent to the world
> of live looping.
> 
> I'm actually still almost entirely a hardware live
> looper but there are no 
> ifs, ands or buts about it,   there is a lot
> out there in the laptop software world that is
> rapidly changing the playing 
> field (from Augustus loop to Mobius
> to Ableton's Live,  etc.)
> 
> The computer software live looping solutions are in
> their infancy so there 
> are bound to be discussions
> about what's wrong with them or what types of
> computers are most appropriate 
> to solve those solutions.
> Not everyone is going to chose that solution,
> necessarily but I imagine it 
> takes up a lot of thought in a lot
> of people doing looping in front of an audience in
> real time.
> 
> At the looping festivals the number of people using
> laptop/software looping 
> solutions has risen dramatically in the past three
> years.
> 
> If , however, the majority of people on this list
> think that these are 
> innapropriate 'off topic' posts then I am willing
> to cease and desist my own discussions of these
> things  but I don't think 
> they are.
> 
> I also agree, though , that reeling those
> discussions into only things that 
> dovetail into live looping should be our task.
> 
> respectfully,   Rick Walker 
> 
> 


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