Re: Cutting Time

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 10/29/2013 4:59 PM, Phil Clevenger wrote:

But let's say I want to remove the tiniest bits of time from a loop, at 
any point I so desire, for the length of a switchpress ("Remove 
SUS"?)... I don't think there is a way to do that right now.    If not, 
please somebody consider it a feature request :)

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This would be a really useful feature for making new music, the way I 
see it but
your only chance of it's appearing is either by it's inclusion in 
Matthias Grob's upcoming
(hopefully) hard ware looper,   or if Jeff Larson were to add it to 
Mobius or if someone
takes the now-open source code and writes it into new software for the 
LP-1.

At one point,  we were contemplating adding Random Re-Shuffle of 
Quantized Slices
in the LP-1 Software but life changes, challenges and all the problems 
we've had with the
first release of the LP-2 made Bob decide that he just couldn't keep 
supporting the
continual improvements in the LP-1.

I was also working on a real time VST plug-in called Ultra-Slice that 
was entirely slice
and slice replaced oriented (adding constraint of randomness 
manipulations controlled by
Boid algorithms, Fluid and Particle dynamic algorithms, etc) moving 
towards exactly this kind of
approach,   but my coding partner decided to stop working on it and it 
got shelved due to my inability to program.
Oh well................

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Another problem about implementing this kind of functionality is that  
with idiosyncratic software upgrades like these, t very, very , very few 
people
end up using them, practically speaking.

As an example, I was dead sure that adding Random ReTrigger would create 
really cool new approaches in
improvisation on the LP-2................it just hasn't happened (for 
some other salient technical reasons
but also because I think most loopers make music intentionally whereas,  
I'm in the happy
accidents school of slicing and dicing (attempt a technique,  be 
surprised what you are given
randomly and then assume it's another musician who you need to 'jam' 
appropriately with.

So,  I'd love this feature, too, Phil,  but I wonder how many people 
would use it.

What do you think?

respectfully,   Rick

ps