Fwd: Need time sync explained

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 3 nov 2007, at 13.57, van Sinn wrote:

> That I don't understand, of cause, based on lack on experience.
> For 'fixed' synchopatics music, it makes sense; for progressive  
> styles with changing patterns, I'd think linking to drums would be  
> better.
> Then again, if percussion isn't at a steady rate, I do see poblems..
> I'm sure you have your reasons, though..

I prefer manual syncing because I find it more musical. That is, you  
can always instantly follow anyone that happens to play "the wrong"  
arrangement of the song. Even if the tempo changes you can still make  
your loops sound good by re-triggering them halfway through or maybe  
only using the first few beats of the loops.

>> I too like MainStage a lot, but I still use Logic for looping virtual
>
> I attended a Logic Studio demo/workshop a few weeks ago, and Erik  
> Metall (great name for a musician, sweedish, know him?) referred to  
> looping in Logic as less usable, so I'm a Bit surprised on your  
> take here..


I didn't mean that I run the looping in Logic (even though I think a  
couple of Tape Delay plug-ins controlled from a MIDI foot board is a  
nice looper inside Logic, although only permitting a half bar loop  
length). I only use Logic as "the sound module" (for guitar, wind  
instruments and software MIDI driven instruments played by an EWI)  
and as an arpeggiator and key following chord creator for MIDI  
instruments. All my looping I do on a second laptop, connected by  
ADAT and MIDI, that runs the software looper Mobius. My reason for  
this dual laptop setup is that I have not been able to find a  
software looper for OS X that can compete with Mobius, that  
unfortunately runs only under Windows. The looping laptop, with  
Mobius, is the sync master and sends MIDI clock into Logic 7 on the  
Mac. I stick with Logic 7 because Logic 8 has dropped MIDI Clock  
slaving.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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