Re: laptop-loopers (guitar)

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

When I meet someone who says their instrument is a DL4 and spends
years expressing themselves using that as their primary source of
audio information, I'll consider it an instrument.
Until then, it's an effect.

TravisH

On 8/25/06, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:
>
> > not....I am somewhat neutral on this for now, but one part of
> > in me wants to reduce effects to non-instruments when a
> > traditional instrument is the primary sound generator, but
> > consider effects (laptops included) inststruments when they
> > are stand-alone music/tone generators.   This is just a
>
> Ok, let's see where this will lead us...let's say you got a DL4 with a 
>sweep
> delay, or a laptop with OhmBoyz. There is a setting on the depth/feedback
> (vs. resonance/feedback) knobs where the effect will do nothing on its 
>own,
> just react to your guitar (or whatever). Then there is a setting where 
>the
> effect will start to generate huge washes of noise all by itself. And 
>there
> is the range in between where by the tick of a knob it will turn from a
> "tame" effect into something which will start to self-oscillate by just a
> tiny increase in brownian motion. And you're telling me this tick of the
> knob removes the "non-" from "non-instrument"?
>
> ;-),
>
>         Rainer
>
>