EM2007

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

For those of us on the US east coast, we have EM2007 coming up in Philly in
the first week of June (http://event.electro-music.com/) and it promises to
be wonderfully diverse and jam-packed with performers. I've got a half-hour
in one of the theaters, and a 2-hour installation in a gallery (it's in an
art museum). I can't wait to meet all sorts of new musical friends. Plus,
there are numerous open and semi-organized jams. It's a big venue, I guess 
-
there seem to be about 4 things happening at any one time.

Is anyone else from LD planning to attend or perform?

Best wishes,
Warren Sirota


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mech [mailto:mech@m3ch.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:22 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: AW: Foot timing, syncing loops with Ableton
> 
> 
> At 9:44 AM -0400 5/6/07, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> >On 5/5/07, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> >>And I've toyed with the idea of coding together a basic 
> audio Looper 
> >>inside Bidule.
> >
> >Just out of curiosity, what salient features are you missing 
> from the 
> >existing mac loopers to make you want to build your own?
> 
> Oh, don't worry Jesse, I'm not looking to disparage the products that 
> are already out there.  It's not so much missing features as a matter 
> of curiosity, and my own education.
> 
> First, it was so darn easy to hack together a MIDI Looper in Bidule, 
> that my next thought was: "well, if I just swap out the MIDI modules 
> with audio modules, will I have a similar audio Looper?".  Doing that 
> also gives a bit of insight into how conventional Loopers are put 
> together, and how to better use/twist them for what I'd like to do. 
> Heck, I don't even know if it would work, but I'd probably learn 
> something from the experiment!
> 
> Next, even though Bidule does support AU/VST's in its layouts, 
> there's still an attraction to "staying native" -- using only Bidule 
> widgets to accomplish what you want, and benefiting from the 
> (perceived) performance optimization.  I guess it's the same as 
> asking whether you'd rather code your own Looper inside MAX/MSP or 
> use one that already exists.  Different people have different 
> preferences.
> 
> Finally, one feature that *would* be inherent in a Bidule layout that 
> isn't easily implemented in existing products: modularity.  For 
> instance, in just the short span of time I was tweaking my MIDI 
> Looper I came across a function that wouldn't be readily available in 
> an off-the-shelf product.  This is the ability to pull the various 
> taps out of the feedback loop and effect each one individually.  If 
> one had the capability to do something like, say, leave the original 
> signal dry, then transpose the first tap up a whole tone with an 
> added minor, then have every subsequent repeat time-stretched down a 
> fifth and buried in a reverb soup... well, it's possible to do some 
> really wicked stuff.
> 
> But, overall, there's a bunch of stuff that becomes possible in a 
> modular design that isn't apparent or even possible in a fixed unit. 
> The flexibility in the architecture allows you to discover things you 
> might not have thought about ahead of time.
> 
> As I stated up top, though, I'm not trying to put down any of the 
> wonderful work you or the other developers have contributed to the 
> field.  New architectures can result in new musical directions. 
> That's all I'm looking for.  :)
> 
>       --m.
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