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Re: New live looping video finally!
It's been quite a few weeks since I've touched my keyboard. But
finally got around to it. This isnt 100% improvised because od me
wanting to maintain the same musical idea throughout the 10-15 tries
it took to record one i liked. Let me know what you guys think! Thanks
:) Link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aRoZ_6JkE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__aRoZ_6JkE&feature=youtube_gdata_player>
The following comments are not meant as a critizism of what you do in
the video, rather than as thoughts about a possible different approach
technically for this form of looping:
1. If you're using loops of MIDI-enabled instruments (which, to me,
seems to be the case in all of your sound sources here), there's always
the two possibilities of audio vs. MIDI lopping . The former is the only
thing which allows you to get the reverse effect, and to properly "cut
audio in pieces" (both of which you don't seem to do that much in your
music. The latter has the advantage that even with a rather simple
system setup, you can have full multitracking and change sounds of an
already recorded loop in a radical fashion. And also get a "proper"
speed change (i.e. without the need of using complex timestretch
algorithms).
I would suggest you have a look at the possibility of working with MIDI
loops (Ableton Live is rather strong in that department) and see how
this works for you.
(self-marketing nota bene: when I had started to work with a computer in
my loop stuff and was still using a lot of synth/computer drum voices, I
would usually record acoustic instruments in Möbius hosted in Live, and
loop MIDI stuff with MIDI clips directly in live. Examples on the Weird
Specialist album http://moinlabs.de/index.php?id=273)
2. Synthesizers often sound less lively in comparison to "proper"
instruments. One way to work around that when working with loops is to
add time-variant processing to the loop output which is not in sync with
the loop length. E.g. use a kind of filter thing modulated by an LFO,
the period of which is 5/4 of the loop length - voila. This works both
with audio and MIDI loops. You can also do that by affecting parameters
of the synth (if using MIDI loops), and if working with e.g. Live use a
MIDI clip of different length to control them.
Rainer
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