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LOL - great subject line, Matt! :-) I too like the game to never letting a loop play back sounding exactly the same as last round. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> wrote: > I love that after someone started a thread about "How NOT looping is > good for me", someone else started a thread called "How looping IS > good for me". There there, Looping, don't let those mean people make > you feel bad. > > When I'm playing in my band (tinyowl.bandcamp.com), looping feels more > like cheating: The drummer and bass player each get one voice, but I > can get multiple. I'm trying to train myself to loop in less invasive > ways - such as creating a very very subtle textural bed, or to record > a loop and make live manipulation of that loop my instrument in a > while. I don't think it should ever be a 100% one way or the other > thing though. > > Even in solo sets, I try to have occasional passages where I'm not > looping. It's a bit of a challenge when your instrument is something > that's mildly annoying to hear when used without effects (drum > machine). It's fun though - it feels a bit like trapezing without a > net. Also, I think it adds strongly to the dynamic variety of a set. > > -- > Matt Davignon > mattdavignon@gmail.com > www.ribosomemusic.com > Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com >