Help! not enough hands....

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

To try do do a recommendation which fits, I'll first try to summarize how I
understand your setup works.

Battery holds prerecorded loops ("sample loop") in a way that if you send 
it
e.g. C3, it will play groove #1 once, if you send C#3, it will play groove
#2 once etc.
The DR5 has different MIDI patterns set up which send one MIDI note (e.g.
C3) periodically, so that whenn the respective pattern is playing, the loop
plays continuously. And you switch between different MIDI patterns (e.g. to
the one playing C#3 over and over) with a footswitch.

Ok, my suggestion would be to remove both the DR5 and Battery from the
equation, use Ableton Live! and a MIDI foot controller (like a Behringer
FCB1010 or digitech PCM-10). You import your loops into Live! as clips and
then use commands from the foot controller (like CC or note commands) to
trigger the clips or move between clips.

        Rainer


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        Von: jon attwood [mailto:jon@yellow6.com] 
        Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. März 2006 18:14
        An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
        Betreff: Help! not enough hands....
        
        
        Hi.
         
        this is my first post here, tho i've been using loops for many
years...
         
        I am planning some live dates this year and would like to make my
live setup a little more robust so have a question.
         
        I currently use a laptop running NI Battery which is loaded with
loops.  These are triggered externally using an ancient Boss DR-5 Dr.Rhythm
using notes in patterns to MIDI trigger loops.  Seems a strange setup 
maybe,
but this is done as the DR-5 has footswitch control to move from one 
pattern
to the next.  This means that i can set the tempo on it and, rather than be
stuck with a fixed 'backing track', can shift from one section / batch of
loops to the next when it feels right by hitting the pattern advance via 
the
footswitch.
         
        So, the question... do any of you know of another way i could do
this, removing the DR-5 from the equation.  Basically, some software which
can run the loops (either singly or overlayed) and be shifted from one loop
to the next with some sort of foot controller. (i also will be playing
guitar and using RC-20 and DL-4 on top so have my hands full!)
         
        many thanks in advance for your help
         
        jon.
         
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