Hi,
I want to start incorporating loops in my bands
live performances. The only experience I've had with loops was doing a sideman
guitar stint with
an artist who used loops on a couple of tunes. I
really enjoyed the overall feel that these loops added to the music. So as I
get ready to dive into looping, I'm a little overwhelmed with the
possibilities.
I am planning on using Acid Pro 2.0 to create the
loops, are there any other software packages that anyone would recommend over
Acid?
The big question I have is how to actually
incorporate the loops into the live performances. Presently our keyboard
player doesn't have any sampling devices in his rig. We have been doing a
couple of tunes where we use his Ensonic Fizmo's arpeggiator to do some
"loop-type" performances. This has been good practice in playing with a set
time source. The only problem is I would like a little more variety with the
loops.
Here is how I want to use the loops on stage.
Once the loops are created, I plan on burning them down to CD and using a
CD player live and feed that through the monitors for the "click track"
Am I on the right track with this plan? If so, does anyone know of any
CD players that come with a footswitch for starting and stopping?
Thanks for any advice on this
subject
Craig