Re: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES

[philip raath <philraath@yahoo.com>]

i'm probably one of the youngest members here, so my
first experiences with looping are probably 20 years
after a lot of you guys and girls...

when i was 16, my first loops were with the boss dd5 2
second sampler. i was in a little high school band and
i wanted to have sequences and drones and whatnot, so
i set up these droning swell sounds that i thought
were great, but the rest of the band was quickly
getting irritated and demanding that i start acting
like a guitar player again. we also had an ensoniq
esq1 that i would loop rythmic and synth sequences on,
but again, the rest of the band was kind of wondering
why i couldn't just play the damn song ("how can we
jam when we have sequences going on?"). i've not been
in a steady band since...once i figured out that i
could trigger the sp-202 with a sequence to handle
beats and rythm guitar, it was over. 

i don't remember when it finally occurred to me that
real time looping was a possibility...i'm sure it had
something to do with ric in over the rhine, and
certainly by the second MONK album it was apparent.

then i started listening to michael brook and i said,
i gotta get me some *that* shit...

good topic!

phil

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