AW: HOW MANY LOOPS DO YOU USE SIMLUTANEOUSLY?

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Hey Rick,
 
> To me,   if you overdub different parts (as opposed to just 
> either doubling 
> or harmonizing an
> individual loop) in a piece of music it doesn't really matter 
> whether they are all
> in one loop (the DL-4 or EDP paradigm)   or have them running 

That makes perfect sense to me. So basically by that definition, everything
which is a separate part is another simulataneous loop. Although I even see
the problem to draw the line between "harmonizing" and "overdubbing a
different part".

But by that musical not tech definition, looped sequences in a MIDI
sequencer would count as simultaneous loops?

> How many loops do you tend to use in a piece of music.
> If there is such a thing as a typical Rainer Straschill set 
> up for a 'song'
> what would it be.

Let's see...there's drum and bass part, or chords part, and there's 
noodling
on top of it, which may also be a loop. But then again, if you listen e.g.
to "Fook Yew" on "Weird Specialist" 
(http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/16603(,
you have drums (MIDI), a synth percussion effects loop (sampler), bass
(MIDI), organ (MIDI - I believe), two guitars (Mobius) - that makes six.

Let's look at some of the material from "Neinnein auf dem kleinen Weg" -
typically drums (pattern sequencer) and up to four tracks (each with an
individual loop) of Repeater - so that's five or less.

I guess that's it. It starts with one and only very rarely goes beyond six,
but most of the time (I'm guessing above 90%) is in the two to four region.

        Rainer