RE: Loop approach: Loop as effect

["Rainer Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Hi Greg,

> An effect is something that alters the sound, but does not 
> generate it's own
> sound.

You mean, like a trombone (or any brass instrument)?

        >:-)

        Rainer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Waltzer [mailto:gwaltzer@optonline.net]
> Sent: Montag, 22. Juli 2002 13:37
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Loop approach: Loop as effect
> 
> 
> Lots of people play effects interactively, especially in 
> electronic music.
> 
> Kim Flint wrote:
> 
> > To me an effect is something that just sits there and does 
> it's thing with
> > little or no interaction from the user. Like a reverb, or a 
> chorus or
> > distortion pedal, at least the way most people use such 
> things. Sound goes
> > in, gets changed in some consistent way, comes out again. 
> Once you've
> > turned the effect on you otherwise go about playing your 
> instrument, which
> > is the thing you interact with in order to convert whatever 
> is inside you
> > into audible music outside of you. The effect simply 
> affects the way it
> > sounds. So to me the instrument is interactive, the effect passive.
> >
> >  From that perspective, a loop that is simply recorded and 
> left to repeat
> > indefinitely would fall more in the "effect" category. When you make
> > looping an interactive effort where various techniques are 
> used to change
> > the resulting sound according to your musical directive, 
> then looping
> > becomes more of an instrument.
>