Re: Sheer Volume & RC50

["nick@12testing.net" <nick@12testing.net>]

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