It's great ! Thanks Fabio, I'm glad you liked it What I like (apart your playing and the amed sound of that guitar) is your heavy ability to use loops and tell your "story" without loosing the musical flux (...and eventually being boring). it is the challenge with looping for sure to have the music breath and not be too static. Musical skills apart (for example, you are using very nice chords round the tonal centre) and focusing just on your looper set-up, can you explain your "strategy" in using tracks in this particular song ? try to sound good:-) Asking me to reveal my trade secrets????? seriously the first stuff i was doing was using the looperlative's quantize replace function set to a factor 16 and adding content slowly to a previously recorded blank loop (by blank I'm I recorded a loop without playing anything) thats how i created that percolating sequence sound which I continually modify throughout the course of the tune. Then at some point I create a guit-boxing part that will have some kind of 16th note shaker part mixed with faux kick and snare stuff. After that it takes on a life of its own. sometimes I'll build a chord progression, sometimes not, sometimes its just about rhythm and melody,and moving from one implied harmony to another, for example: moving from Ionian to Mixolydian over the same root For example, it seems to me that you are using a specific track for the rhythmic section, while new material is recorded on a different track. yes and yes Maybe a track is "dedicated" just to the double speed parts ? This is free form in that I don't designate any track to a specific task, any track could be the beat box track, or the double speed track. Its constantly shifting because I can do any of the quantize replace techniques or track speed or reverse track techniques on any track. All I can say is I try to remember where each part is , but when I start getting past 4 or 5 tracks it can get confusing, but then again thats where the adventure is. Dont' remember if the LP1 has the next track/previous track EDP features. Do you prefer working with loops or with tracks ? Can you explain it ? I'm curious. Not quite sure what you mean. I go from track to track because i like the separation rather than always overdubbing and also because on the looperlative I can take advantage of the two aux stereo outputs when recording to DAW and separate my guitbox tracks from my melody tracks and chord progression tracks, and pan tracks individually. I don't mess with that live though, too much to think about. -fabio Thanks Bill |