RE: Loop length query

[David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>]

Hello.
My name is David.
My longest loop was 196 seconds.


The fun in really long loops is, not only is the audience suprized when
something they remember comes around again so long after they first heard
it, the musician is too!

David K



-----Original Message-----
From: Dpcoffin@aol.com [mailto:Dpcoffin@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 9:10 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Loop length query


Topic suggestion:
How many of you folks routinely use loops longer than, say 10
sec.? Maybe it's just because all my loopers max out at 10 sec, or much
less,
that I've focused my own looping--which isn't what I mainly do,
BTW (sound design and composition come a little ahead of looping, but not 
by

much, I guess) ---primarily on the rhythms produced by the length of the
loop 
itself, rather than, say, the phrasing of the loop material, or the 
construction of backing
tracks, making longer looping times less interesting to me than fool-proof,
flexible, interactive and intuitive loop control, and multi-tap, panning,
and 
other rhythmic possibilities inherent in complex stereo delays. My GT-5, 
VG-8...even the
sold-and-now-missed Vortex have all provided MUCHO Looping fun at well 
under
2
sec.
When I DO go for a longer "backing" loop, I tend to set up some FX to blur
or 
annihilate the sense of a repeat within a fairly sparse harmonic looping 
texture using a slow LFO or a filter or phaser.
Comments on how you use longer loops, or don't, welcome....
David Coffin