Re: What are you looping

["Tias" <tias@condomo.com>]

Terry Blankenship wrote:

 > I was curious what instruments people here on this
> list are using to do their looping. (Guitar, bass,
> synth, percussion, vocals, etc.)

I'm not sure if this is a first but i hope so. ;)

I'm using Propellerheads Reason and at the moment i've routed 8 * DDL-1
tempodelays in series (right now i call it a delay-ladder) with 16 steps
delaytime on each, then i cause an infinate feedback, though with some
"loss" (i would call it "evolution" instead because the sound evolves after
a while) in the soundcharacter, by patching the delay-ladder back into one
of the mixers ordinare channels so i can controll the feedback and muting
and also add dist, filter and other effects ontop of the feedback.

I trippled the setup last night so now i have 3 independent Loop-channels
that i controll from my Edirol PCR-30 keyboard. And then i just setup my
synth-sounds in Reason as usual and patch that into the 3 delay-ladders
through the Effect-sends.

Ok, i can't get any Live-audio into Reason at the moment, and the
tempo-delays as a max-delaytime of 2000ms wich effect the tempo-sync under
120bpm. Also 8 delays rigged in series is bound to give some Latency (that
eternal plague of live-softwaremusicians hehe.). But i'm not useing
Liveaudio per say, i use the synths and samplers and NO, i seldom use the
presetsounds, unless when it's some sound that is obvious, like a piano for
example, but i usually end up messing with the sound so much that it morphs
into something else. ;)

So it's not a perfect Live Looping setup, but this is my solution since i
don't have any money AND since i use Reason otherwise anyway so i just
wanted to see if it was possible. And i must say it is quite possible to
Live Loop like this.

/Tias
(Propellerheads Reason - Odds And Ends, Breaks and Beats Live Looper)