Re: Beginning Looper Seeking Advice

[John Singletary <singletaryj472@gmail.com>]

Hey Everyone, thanks you all so much for your input! You have given me
some great ideas and a lot of interesting options to think about.
Best Regards,

John Singletary

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM,  <antonyhequet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> LP1 LP1 LP1
> or Elektron Oktotrack if that turns out to do what they it shoud do
> http://www.elektron.se/products/octatrack
> Antony
> ________________________________
> From: Andy Owens <andy@1800dialword.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 6:30:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Beginning Looper Seeking Advice
>
> Also, you could use the EHX 2880 and do almost the same thing but only 
>four
> channels but full complete midi control of the looper available. More 
>audio
> mangling with LP1 and not sure about outs on the 2880
>
> Andy Owens
> 1-800-AndyOwens
> Sent from my iPhone
> So the typing might not be my best!
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:17 PM, "Andy Owens" <andy@1800dialword.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John, cool rig idea. I do exactly what you have described with an
> Looperlative LP1, a midibuddy pedal, a novation work surface with two 
>octave
> keyboard and a small mixer.
> If you go that route I can send you my setups too and that will save you
> about two years work!!
>
> Andy Owens
> 1-800-AndyOwens
> Sent from my iPhone
> So the typing might not be my best!
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:14 AM, "John Singletary" <singletaryj472@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All, I am very new to this forum and page and I find it
> absolutely fascinating.  It seems like there are some great musicians
> and very creative people here and I am very happy to have found it.
> My last studio project was called La Brea and used a very loop based
> approach, although it was done in the studio. It was a lush, richly
> textural, building and rather cinematic type musical project. Songs
> are on myspace at www.myspace.com/labreaband and if you like it I will
> send you the album free, just shoot me an email.  After that, I took a
> brake from music and worked on my other passion which is photography.
> I have become very interested in working on music again and in the
> live looping approach but until I found this site I did not know that
> many people were doing this besides a few people.  I know next to
> nothing about how a looping set up works and have been reading about
> different types of gear such as the echoplex, ableton live, etc. I
> have the large boss loop station (RC-50) but that will hardly be the
> solution to what I would like to do.  All of this is overwhelming and
> exciting and I was hoping that based on a brief description of my
> goals, some of you more experienced loopers could  at least point me
> in the right direction to get me started making live loop based music.
>  First, I would like to use a range of instruments (guitar, synth,
> iphone, chaos pad, drum machines, glockenspiel, whatever) and have the
> ability to pick up an instrument, record a loop, put it down, pick up
> another instrument and so on.2nd, I need to be able to synch all of
> these loops to a set BPM while maintaining the ability for a loop to
> have its own type of rotation (meaning one loop going for 4 measures
> of 4, one going for 7, one for 3, etc. all simultaneously). 3Rd, I
> would like to be able to adjust the volumes of each loop separately
> after I play it. 4Th, I would like to be able to have each loop sent
> to a different output device (one to a bass cab, another to a guitar
> amp and so on). This requires that the loops be isolated and that the
> system has enough outputs. I would also like to be able to use foot
> pedals to trigger loops. If anyone has even just rudimentary ideas of
> how this could be accomplished I would be so extremely grateful.  I
> don't just want to mooch off of your hard earned knowledge but I want
> to get started making music and experimenting with this stuff and be
> able to share my music and things that I learn with this amazing
> community. If anyone could help me that would be really wonderful.
> Thanks very much.
> Best,
>
> John
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