Thanks, and Switching Loops -was- Re: Off-Topicers Delight!

[Goddess <thefates@earthlink.net>]

  Kim, Thank you SOOOO much!   <smile>   Personally I was getting ready to
unsub again for a lil' while.  -Not that I  think that ALL of the recent
topics weren't interesting, but the sheer volume has been extraordinarily
irritating.   <smile>   -just my opinion of course...   
  Anyway, Thanks , I completely agree.  
  So, regardin' looping; I'm curious, given that the EDP and Repeater both
have a number of ways with which to switch from loop to loop, and even the
Jam Man to a certain extent, how are people finding themselves doing this?,
-to those who do actually comprize a piece of more than one loop?
*laughing*   -and yes!, this means you too Kim!   lol!   *hug*   
  -and by switching loops, I mean sonically, as well, so if you simply
evolve a loop gradually, so it effectively becomes a different loop, that
would be one way of switching between loops.   
  Personally, I tended to take the more gradual approach, but since I'd
also incorporate loops into rhythms and vocals and such, it wasn't always
obvious.   Now, I'm getting more into replace modes, both with the Repeater
and EDP, and not only building loops that way, but  changing existing loops
by both layering and replacing bits at the same time.  On the Repeater, I'm
also changing a loop sonically via it's pitch function, and by layering,
reversing, and layering some more, along with the replace function.
Woohoo!   It's lots of fun!...   
  Anyway, What are the rest of us doing?...  

Smiles,

Cara

At 07:32 PM 1/4/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi List-
>
>Other things in my life leave me without much time to participate here 
>lately, but I do still read the list most days. Over the last few months 
>I've noticed with increasing dismay that almost no discussion about 
>looping 
>takes place here anymore. An off topic post once in a while doesn't hurt 
>anybody, but Looper's Delight now appears to be 95% off-topic!
>
>The last couple of days have been an extreme example, but in fact this 
>has 
>been going on for some time. Look back over the last month and see for 
>yourself. Some examples of what we've discussed:
>
>midi controllers, music reviewers, guitar sustainers for parker fly's, 
>cd-r 
>brands, bbe, audio archiving, recording equipment, a/d convertors, mac vs 
>pc, robert fripp's guitar tone, guitar rack wiring, math music, elliot 
>sharp's guitar, numerous gear sales, mixers, peter gabriel's concert 
>sound, 
>self-promotions with nothing to do with looping, mp3.com and 
>alternatives, 
>blown speakers, how to sneak into NAMM, how to run cables, music in 
>siberia, more mixers, fretless guitars, fretless guitarists, fretless 
>midi 
>guitars, glissantars, ouds, cd distributors, using acoustic guitars as a 
>drum, hex fuzz, ebay self-promotion techniques, microtonal midi control, 
>brian eno's foreign policy, foreign countries to move to, and last but 
>not 
>least, didgeridoo.
>
>So what is the problem? Have you lost interest in looping? You've run out 
>of looping topics? Nobody has any new (or even old) looping techniques to 
>share? You haven't listened to any music with interesting new uses of 
>looping to discuss? No looping gear tips? This is the only place in the 
>world devoted to  to discussing looping, and you barely use it!
>
>So as the above subject line suggests, should we just forget that this is 
>about looping at all and give up on the whole idea?
>
>I can already hear the predictable responses that always come when 
>somebody 
>brings up off-topic-ness. "But people here were interested, so it's ok." 
>"This group of people seemed like the best place to discuss it." "But 
>it's 
>related to looping."
>
>Sure, we can play six degrees of Looper's Delight and manage to justify 
>anything. But before you post again try to consider, if it isn't really 
>about looping, is this the best place for it? If you are starting a 
>message 
>off with "OT", maybe that's a sign that you shouldn't be posting it here 
>at 
>all? Do you really want to continue to dilute this forum with more 
>unrelated messages, and lessen it's value for everybody?
>
>Like I said, going off topic once in a while isn't a big deal, but we're 
>off topic constantly. How many of you can look back over your last ten 
>posts here and say that nine of them were directly about looping? If 
>you're 
>finding that most of your recent posts have been off-topic, how about 
>making certain the next one is ON topic? Take the responsibility to turn 
>the ratio around, starting with yourself!
>
>thanks,
>kim
>
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________
>Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
>kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
>
>


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