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Re: Is using Pre-Recorded Loops Cheating?
then again... Miles Davis' favorite patch on the D-50 was the
nightmare patch with no customization.
go figure.
rules? what rules?
Teddy
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On May 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Wavecomputer360 wrote:
> Why should it be cheating? After all, itīs you who created the
> loops so why
> bother? As a performing musician you ought to keep an eye on
> delivering a
> decent show with as little flaws as possible, this is what your
> audience
> paid for. If using pre-recorded loops help you accomplish this,
> great! Of
> course itīs great to create everything on the spot, giving an awe-
> inspiring
> demo of your musical skills but sometimes things tend to go wrong,
> like
> little fluctuations in line voltage, or the sushi you had before
> the show
> that was slightly, erm, fishy...
>
> I would only have a serious problem were I to use loops that were
> created by
> someone else, i. e. a sampling library or something along these
> lines. Itīs
> neither my own stuff, nor does it require a particular amount of
> musical or
> technical wit to reproduce this. As long as itīs your own stuff,
> why bother?
>
> Stephen
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