Re: Directness in Simplicity

[Tim Mungenast <tmungenast@verizon.net>]

One loop always worked for me... but then I always had trouble getting the 
timing right for more than one, so it's more MY limitation than the box's.

Tim Mungenast
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--- On Wed, 1/23/13, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
> Subject: Directness in Simplicity
> To: "Jeff Duke" <jeffloops@gmail.com>, "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" 
> <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 5:13 PM
> On 1/23/2013 5:21 AM, Jeff Duke
> wrote:
> > I just noticed that my Line 6 M9 has a button for
> undo/redo, never noticed it before!
> > 
> > 
> That's hilarious, Jeff.
> 
> In my own work (and I own an M-9 and use it live) I'm so
> used to the architecture
> of the LP-1 (and now the LP-2) that I got really into
> creating seamless overdubs so that if
> I ever UDNO a loop (or five) I am also thinking ahead of the
> game and ready to re-record something
> quickly.
> 
> That said and done, the single RE-DO on the M-9 is useful if
> you are playing a second instrument
> in a performance and you suddenly want to bring in that part
> that you eliminated with an UNDO
> to suddenly fill things out.
> 
> Another thought about UNDO is that I rarely use very many
> layers in my looping anyway,
> so I actually don't use a lot of UNDO in my playing, though
> glad Bob put that feature into
> the LP-2.
> 
> With the exception of ambient music where lots of smeary
> layers are a plus,   I think that a lot of
> loopers forget that everyone in a sextet has to play
> commensurately less and simpler parts
> to make an arrangement really powerful than in a duo or
> trio.
> 
> So many loopers at the festival,   Lili Lewis
> and Jerry Barnes come to mind immediately
> played pieces of music with a single loop and then played
> over it , beautifully so
> there's a lot of potential in minimalism whilst looping.
> 
> It, of course, is not the only way to go, and all forms of
> expression are , of course, valid,
> but I find that if I keep my loop count down that there is
> directness in the simplicity.
> 
>