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Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the Receptor for Mobius
On Oct 17, 2005, at 20:01, Kim Flint wrote:
> 8< 8< 8< 8<....
> And so it is with Looping. We want our looper instrument to work in
> a reliable real-time fashion. We are constantly tapping buttons and
> executing functions on our looper in time to music, and we want it
> to respond reliably every time.
Thank you, Kim! This is exactly why I do NOT use software for "sound
mangling" of my direct instrument signal ("software monitoring"). I
do a lot of "software looping" though, but then I take care to only
apply sound mangling plug-ins to the loops or other audio streams
(bus, aux send loop etc) that do NOT carry my direct signal. This is
also why I like quantization of actions in software (not of the music
or my playing). Sometimes I set the quantize value to 32nd or 64th
notes and hit the button just a little early. This is a little
frustrating but nothing we can ever hope to get away from. Speaking
about using synced software plug-ins, I think it was a big relief
when Ableton Live received Plug-in Latency Compensation with the
latest upgrade! But for this to work you can't slave the software, it
has to be used as the clock master. Finally, I do not have any
problem with the timing response of the EDP.
This is interesting: The other day I was discussing latency with one
of my live looping students and this percussionist did not see it as
a problem because "in classical training you must learn to adjust the
general timing of your playing" (to compensate for natural latency in
the big concert hall with audience, different instrument groups and
the director spread out over a large area, thus not hearing an
acoustic sound at the same time). Symphonic musicians have to adjust
for the best timing at the listeners position. But myself, I'm not
good at that. To me all the joy of playing just isn't there when my
instrument sounds later - or earlier - than I'm used to. I've always
used small guitar amps close to me on stage and like to practice
saxophone against a flat glossy painted wall (yellow sounds best...
he, he.... just kidding ;-) I don't like latency afflicted hardware
either, for example the Line-6 POD 1.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.looproom.com (international)
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
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