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Re: livelooping. organic
Dear Rick,
you said:
From my experience, though, most are augmenting pre-existing
sequences by adding/subtracting notes
and by switching, in real time, between different tracks that have
been pre-written.
Yes, and from my experience, most people who do live-looping (whatever
that may be) simply use something like a Boss RC-50, record a track,
then record another one, and then have them play while they solo on top
of them. And there's very very few that do the odd "EDP gone crazy"
schtick so some of us can enjoy it.
Of course, most drum machines are not optimized for patterns being
programmed from scratch in realtime - that's not the original main use
case, and only a few implementations have moved away from that main use
case (just as only a few looping devices have moved away from the
"one-man-band" use case).
Sidenote: the Dave Smith/Roger Linn "Tempest" seems to be in part
optimized for doing just that - programming patterns from scratch while
performing:
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/products/tempest/index.html
I'd actually like to challenge you to try and program drum patterns
live, and see where it can take you. In addition to a drum machine which
might allow both step editing while the sequencer is running AND pattern
sequencing (such as the Quasimidi Sirius), Ableton Live works well for
that - during my 2006 tour (including my appearance at your festival), I
would sometimes generate a drum beat on the fly by a combo of sequencing
a pattern and drawing it in drumroll notation on the screen:
http://moinlabs.bandcamp.com/track/i-left-my-pants-in-san-francisco
So, summarizing:
You're right that only a few people do it. But some do. And you should
try that, too ;).
Rainer
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