short looping times

[Matt Davignon <mdavig@sfsu.edu>]

It's funny, I've had only 4 second loop pedals and I've never felt shorted 
by
it. Now I have a computer and I rarely ever use it to make loops. The added
"live" control of the hands on approach to me surpasses the ability to 
loop for
longer and edit better. I wind up with short loops with unusual, 
unpredicted
rhythmic or melodic patterns. If I were to do the same thing with longer 
loops,
my music would become too hard to follow and I probably wouldn't enjoy it 
any
more.

The other night, I spent three hours or so editing myself a 15 second loop 
on
the computer. It sounds pretty, but I don't know what else I'd add to it, 
or
how I'd spice it up into a CD-worthy song. Besides, I'm way too lazy to 
spend
that much time working to get a final product.

matt davignon

p.s. David Orton, it looks like we lost you on the (CF) chain. Could you 
please
respond to a CF mail?





murkie wrote:

> At 04:51 PM 7/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >> On topic (sort of), as someone who has never had beyond 5 seconds of
> looping
> >> capacity, I sometimes wonder what I'd actually do with 64 seconds of
> loop time
> >> (but I'm willing to find out :-)
> >
> >I have 32 sec and I'm damnes dure I've never reached that deliberately.
>
> i think tht's one of the reasons i've stuck with the jamman.  i've never
> felt i needed more than 32 seconds and having the option of more time
> might actually cause my brain to melt mid-show.
>
> it may be that i'm a simpleton, but the lack of options with the jamman 
>is
> what makes it appealing to me.  i need something to be super 
>user-friendly
> for me to be able to incorporate it into performance.  it does what i 
>need
> it to.
>
> which prompts another question:  anybody out there ever feel like your 
>gear
> is controlling your creativity instead of the other way around?
>
> m
>
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