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Re: Sheer Volume & RC50
//if you listen to true creative loopers, they are creating expressive
and original music, not just jamming over a backing track. //
You're f*cking kidding, right?
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Paul Richards
---- "nick@12testing.net" <nick@12testing.net> wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2006 at 9:07, Krispen Hartung wrote:
>
> > the need to read everything I see. I get hundreds of emails a day
>
> Ditto, which is why I'd prefer it if the digest messages could be
> made larger, so I had fewer of them! Most digests I receive have
> 20/30 messages - loopersD can have as few as 4, but I sometimes get
> 3/4 on the trot (and hey! naother has just arrived!) , which isn't
> quite a "daily" digest.
>
> Re the rc50 video, I tend to believe the looping is more of a state
> of mind and an approach to creating music, rather than using the
> latest technology to show how clever you are. The guitarist in the
> video in question is treating the looper as a multitrack recorder to
> allow him to widdle to his own riffs. This is all well and good, but
> if you listen to true creative loopers, they are creating expressive
> and original music, not just jamming over a backing track.
>
> The majority of designers of looping pedals clearly have the
> multitrack mentality to the fore, but they kind of miss the point to
> my way of thinking. To this day, the most interesting and creative
> things I do use a 20 year old Powertran DDL that a friend added extra
> memory to. It has no click track, no quantise, no undo or flash
> memory and it wouldn't know what to do with a midi cable, but it's
> *musical*.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Nick Robinson
>
>