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Re: In the Repeaters defense



On 03-10-30 09.05,  "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> 1)   You can play a loop as a chromatic instrument over three octaves 
>while
> the machine
> constantly does all the time stretching to keep the rhytms intact as you
> pitch shift.
> 
> This either allows me to play rhythms with static loops (like me 
>trilling a
> single note with my mouth)
> or it allows me to modulate a pattern's pitch and hence the whole 
>harmony of
> the 'section' you have just created
> by doing so.
> 
> All of this can be done with midi pedals used like ersatz organ 
>footpedals
> 
> 2)  You can have four simultaneous loops going with indedendent control 
>of
> the pitch and panning of each
> loop..................with four separate outs going into four muteable
> channels on a mixer, this is very, very powerful
> as a live performance option
> 
> 3) My brother is getting amazing sounds by using the output of his guitar
synth
> arpeggiator (without the sonic output)
> and rhythmically tuning his loops (from drone sounds to hand drum sounds)
> creating really cool rhythmic tracks
> that I've never heard anything like before.   It is  a simple technique 
>but
> the Repeater is the only instrument that
> can do this so far.

The new software Live 3.0 does these three tricks this as well. But NOT in
rec/ordoverdub mode with a feedback setting.

-- 
Best wishes

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se