YT videos of some modular jam where $20K worth of gear is used to produce 30 minutes of the same pattern and sounds for the entire session, and the YouTuber is occasionally twisting a knob or changing a filter cutoff or changing a patch cable while staring at you through the camera like they are somehow revealing to you the secrets of the universe.
If I can skip to any part of the video with no significant differences in groove or sounds, I feel like someone is trying to troll me.
Either that or I’m going to need some serious mood alteration to get on that wavelength.
I’m not talking about anyone here (that I know of), this is just a trend I’m seeing.
I’m glad they’re having fun and exploring their creative muse with all of this, I just don’t necessarily want to watch and listen to the same noisy generative percussion sequence for the length of 6 or 7 songs.
I have a few pieces of gear that got a Looper in a firmware update but I hate them.
I’d like to hear other ways you might use them (maybe start a new thread)?
like when i go into a coffee shop and the acoustic songwriter dude has a looping pedal it’s like…oh look he’s going to start with a kick, then a chord progression, then he’ll sing some lyrics…
I can’t stand those tiny blippy percussion the sounds like you sampled the smallest matchbox in the world. I’m looking at you early Múm. Have a sandwich and put some meat on those drums.
I’m learning that for me personally a lot of joy is lost in listening to music that is composed with patch innovation being the priority rather than the song writing, it’s a little hard to quantify/articulate but suffice to say that I don’t care whether anyone in the world has heard the patch before or if the song utilizes the oldest patches known to mankind, don’t care if a song is comprised of nothing but presets or rocket science-try etc… I just care about how the song sounds.
when I hear someone describing a song in patches I feel like they didn’t even listen to the song.
Yes, the inherent limitations of all the songs following pretty much the same build-up, plus the inability to do any kind of varying song structure is often why I dread seeing someone start in with a looper like that.
I’d much rather the performer just play and sing minus the gimmickry, because there’s inherently more freedom to do some serious song craft, with a varied set of more interesting songs that won’t get repetitive.
