Re: Is using Pre-Recorded Loops Cheating?

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my head hurts

-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>
>Sent: May 15, 2008 2:30 PM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Is using Pre-Recorded Loops Cheating?
>
>They say with the new Melodyne, it can actually pick out every note  
>from a track and map it in a piano roll. Which means you could take  
>Led Zeppelin IV and rearrange the notes to create your own music  
>using Zeppelins tones. The implications of this are of course mind  
>boggling. Its an extreme example, but if its done well, it could be  
>interesting.
>On May 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Wavecomputer360 wrote:
>
>> Why should it be cheating? After all, it´s you who created the  
>> loops so why
>> bother? As a performing musician you ought to keep an eye on  
>> delivering a
>> decent show with as little flaws as possible, this is what your  
>> audience
>> paid for. If using pre-recorded loops help you accomplish this,  
>> great! Of
>> course it´s great to create everything on the spot, giving an awe- 
>> inspiring
>> demo of your musical skills but sometimes things tend to go wrong,  
>> like
>> little fluctuations in line voltage, or the sushi you had before  
>> the show
>> that was slightly, erm, fishy...
>>
>> I would only have a serious problem were I to use loops that were  
>> created by
>> someone else, i. e. a sampling library or something along these  
>> lines. It´s
>> neither my own stuff, nor does it require a particular amount of  
>> musical or
>> technical wit to reproduce this. As long as it´s your own stuff,  
>> why bother?
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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