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Re: How do YOU loop?
On 12 feb 2006, at 16.23, a k butler wrote:
> The "big problem" with looping is to combine some sort of ABC type
> structure with loops that have a number of overdubs. After the A is
> built up, it usually sounds like an anticlimax to start a B part
> from nothing. There's no looping device available to let you keep
> the rhythm from the A part going as you start to record the B part.
This is indeed a big challenge! I address it with two workarounds
when looping with laptops:
1. If I'm looping with Augustus Loop I have a bank set-up on my
FCB1010 where each button transposes the pitch of the loop. Since
Augustus Loop is a tape delay simulator without, without time-
stretching, I have to be careful with pitching rhythmic material. If
working with quantized transpose you can find a musically good
counter rhythm in a new pitch, but I prefer to use the pitch
transpose pedals unquantized. So I mostly transpose drone like loops,
or I may put a beat synced plug-in after the looper to keep up the
beat. In this concept it's interesting to transpose the loop in
overdub mode while constantly renewing the audio. Old layers,
recorded at a different pitch, can sound like different instruments
and you can learn this effect to use it in a planned way.
2. When looping in Mobius I use a variation of my old EDP technique
to use for example "MooreLoops=5" and start building a sparse layer
in each loop, according to five different "chords". Then I keep on
playing melodies over those five chords and taking care to punch in
(or overdub) only notes or lines that I want in that chord section.
So all chords kind of grow at the same speed as I pass through them
with melodies. Here's an example of such an EDP improvisation over
three loops/chords:
http://www.looproom.com/aol/01_Patterns.mp3 (sax/EDP+percussion).
With Mobius it is easier because I can put percussive stuff on a
separate track and do the tonal looping on another track (the
"MooreLoops" technique). Or I can lay down a bass line that is
working with many different chords on another track.
There is also another concept for multi chordal live looping in
Mobius where you create different chords/keys on dedicated tracks and
then mute or un-mute tracks to go in and out of chords. I have not
used that technique much though. Generally I like to work with as few
tracks as possible to enable drastic changes by changing loop or
reworking a loop.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.looproom.com (international)
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
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