Re: MIDI sync survey: is it important to you?

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Basically, as I see it, MIDI sync makes it easy to play with other human 
beings or machines and all be synced up to the same meter framework. That 
way, you could be playing a drum machine and looping along with it, 
without 
experiencing sync drift...and the same with playing with humans, though I 
personally think this is cheating. :)  Like you, I prefer the free 
approach 
with no fixed meter constraints....although I suppose if I were looping 
with 
someone else, and we both wanted to contribute metered loops to the mix, 
we 
would need to sync via MIDI, otherwise....drift.  However, I have some 
friends here in Boise who loop together with the Boss looping units, no 
syncing, and they don't mind the minor drifting...they like it, in fact.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S V G" <vsyevolod@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: MIDI sync survey: is it important to you?


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>> So, is MIDI sync important to you?
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>     Currently, no
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>> Would it influence you to purchase your next looper?
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>     Currently, no
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>> Are you interested in jamming with other loopers and  keeping both 
>> loopers in sync?
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>     Currently, no.
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>     What I don't get (my naivite is showing here) is why MIDI sync is 
> valuable.  I should state
> here that I don't ever play with drum machines or prerecorded beats or 
> even sequencers.  I do live
> improv stuff.  Also, like Rick Walker, I have the entire line of 
>Electrix 
> boxes and I use them all
> the time.  How would MIDI sync be useful to me in having these boxes 
> MIDI-interact with each
> other?  I guess I know that I can have MIDI sync delays running at 
> different timings yet still
> synced up.  That effect has yet to do much for me except as an 
> intellectual curiousity.  Same
> thing goes for MIDI syncing my Repeater up to incoming signals. 
> Musically, I'm much more drawn to
> things that are NOT synced up.  One of the things that interests me 
>about 
> the Looperlative is that
> you can have 8 non-synced loops going at once, and the interaction 
>between 
> them will never sound
> the same way twice.  Even with two non-synced loops.
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>     So this is kinda like that mailing-list vs. message board debate 
>that 
> seemed to go nowhere
> last month.  Before debating the "this is better than that", how about a 
> thorough discussion of
> what MIDI sync can offer.  Even the most MIDI seasoned among us might 
> learn a thang or two...
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>     So is MIDI sync important to me?  Not at all... at this time.  I 
>don't 
> have a clue what I
> would do with it.  Perhaps I'm just not seeing the potential?  Enlighten 
> me please.  How many
> different ways do YOU find MIDI sync useful?
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>     Respectfully,
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>               Stephen
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