Re: Looping with sequencersoftware

[Joshua Carroll <josh@infinivert.com>]

Roel,

Have you looked at Mobius (zonemobius.com)?  For PC it's excellent, and several of us here use it.

--Josh

roel wrote:

Well to answer shortly, the tools (of the trade) i mentioned, are all the
more or less hardware tools, like delays, loop recorders etc. which are very
well suitable for performing in live situations.

What i wondered about, is the use of sequencer software for use in live
looping, as in overdubbing, letting audio loops fade out et cetera. Can that
be done, or is sequencing software so limited that it's useable only when
having prepared loops which were recorded before.

I guess you could push software so far that it can be used as live looping
software, and not only for playing prerecorded loops. I just don't know if
it is hassle-free :)

best, roel


----- Original Message -----
From: "mark sottilaro" <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Looping with sequencersoftware


  

Well I can't speak for those apps, but I have looped
with MOTU's Digital Performer.  It actually has a
pretty strong looping tool called "POLAR" that loops
audio.  If ProTools, Cubase, or Logic does audio
looping it's news to me.

I'm a little confused by what you mean about "tools
mentioned on the LD site."  Is there a tool we haven't
gone over?  The tools of the trade page is pretty
complete... though I don't remember if it lists MOTU's
POLAR.  It should, it sure is a real time software
audio looper.  If you're talking about the difference
between the real time looping you can do with the
tools listed on LD (such as the Echoplex Digital Pro
or software like Mobius or Augustus Loop) and audio
editing apps that let you take pre-recorded audio and
loop it... you're talking about such different things
it's impossibe to fully explain.  One cannot be told
what live looping is.  Reading about live looping is
like reading a book about swimming.  You can read
volumes about it, but the first time you dive into
water you'll "know" it in a way that reading can never
communicate.

The best analogy I can think of is that looping with
prerecorded audio in a DAW like Logic is like clipping
images and pasting them together to get a new image,
where live looping is more like dipping a brush into
oil paint.

Mark

--- roel <q-mailing-list@xs4all.nl> wrote:

    

Hi,

I was just wondering if any ppl here are using
"regular" sequencer
software like pro tools, logic or cubase for audio
looping. If so, do you
see any advantages of these software compared to,
let's say, any looping
tool mentioned on the LD site?

best, roel


      

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