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Re: Loop approach: Loop as effect



Lots of people play effects interactively, especially in electronic music.
An effect is something that alters the sound, but does not generate it's 
own
sound.

Kim Flint wrote:

> To me an effect is something that just sits there and does it's thing 
>with
> little or no interaction from the user. Like a reverb, or a chorus or
> distortion pedal, at least the way most people use such things. Sound 
>goes
> in, gets changed in some consistent way, comes out again. Once you've
> turned the effect on you otherwise go about playing your instrument, 
>which
> is the thing you interact with in order to convert whatever is inside you
> into audible music outside of you. The effect simply affects the way it
> sounds. So to me the instrument is interactive, the effect passive.
>
>  From that perspective, a loop that is simply recorded and left to repeat
> indefinitely would fall more in the "effect" category. When you make
> looping an interactive effort where various techniques are used to change
> the resulting sound according to your musical directive, then looping
> becomes more of an instrument.