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On Jan 30, 2008 5:06 AM, Doug Cox <uncledig@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Per! > > Got it. The levels adjustment is critical - my first experiments with >this > were overloading my output. LOL! I did that too ;-)) > My approach has been to use different "Presets" and to use the Rate >Sequence > (sometimes Pitch Sequence - but as we've discovered, this has timing >issues) > in the "Effects" tab to define the steps that each track will take. It's > interesting to then mix and match these presets. I've got a different > script that does 2, 3 and 4 loop captures similar to how you describe. Interesting. We use different ways to achieve similar results. Some related interesting stuff: It just entered my mind that if I put my four "percolator tracks", of Mobius, into Overdub Mode with some 80 percent Feedback it all works just like that awesome AU plug-in Crossfade Loop Synth/FX from Expert Sleepers. That plug-in also has a setting to automatically reverse the loops after one playback round - so the go forwards-backwards-forwards-backwards etc etc. I decided to keep the reverse option manual in Mobius though. The looper Logelloop (OS X) can also do this "percolating preset" thing, where you step between different chordal harmony speed shifted settings by pedals. One difference is the in Logelloop you don't manipulate four loops but rather four layers of the same loop. Logelloop is more like the Repeater; it has 10 tracks but it's still one loop, although tracks can be multiplied to different lengths. On the pro side is that you get the granular real-time sampler and step sequencer plug-in Granulaterre that soon will sync (in time) to the loops as well as to preset changes. So you can run parallel presets in Granulaterre that go into compatible "chord harmonies" when you speed/pitch your loop. Another thing I like with Logelloop is that speed/rate shifting can be done in a smoothly gliding manner without stuttering up or down that half-note ladder. You can for example do the THX Sound Jingle thing by overdubbing a loop of ten layers/tracks playing the same long note. Then you kick in a preset for speed/rate shifting into a chord with the looper set to morph slowly into the new preset, which means all pitches with slowly glide towards their new positions in the upcoming preset. Very cool ! :-) -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international)