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Another great glitch VST is Audio Damage's Replicant and it will reorder your slices plus a lot more... I'm going to have to check out this TB Cairo too! On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: >> I also wonder if there are VST plugins that can do basically the >> same thing > > A bunch of (hopefully) useful hints: > > TB Cairo is the name of the free VST plug-in that I use in Windows for > this kind of live stuttering/gating on my laptop looping setup. You > can find the download page by an internet search engine. It can be set > to any musical or non musical rhythmic relation to the tempo. It does > not reorder the slices though, but many loopers do that fine > (Looperlative 1, Mobius, Live's BeatRepeat). > > A more musically interesting approach IMO would be to have a proper > step sequencer sending out the "open/close the gate" commands, because > this would allow for a musical groove factor (swing) and not only the > stiff mathematical grid that we know from plug-ins like TB Cairo, > LP1's scramble, Mobius shuffle, Mobius scripting or the BOSS SL-20. > This is by the way one of the reasons I'm not interested in using > VST's in the future, as the best groove clocked step sequencing host > application I know, Numerology, works with AU plug-ins under OS X. > > If you are using Pro Tools as your looping host you can buy the Pro > Tools plug-in Transfuser that does both slicing/gating and many other > things. I have just did a test of Transfuser and was amazed by how > powerful this plug-in is and how easy it is to use, thanks to the > smart and clever design. > > In Logic many native instrument plug-ins can fetch the audio input as > a side-chain feed and then work as slicing gates. The gating rhythm > can be directed by either the plug-in's built-in step sequencer or an > infinite number of MIDI regions (sequences) placed on a track along > the linear time line. > > Whatever software method you prefer, a nice trick is to assign a MIDI > expression pedal to sweep the musically relevant time measure values > of the slicing/gating speed while playing. I started doing that back > in the Repeater days, using analog filter banks, but it's much easier > to set up and use creatively with today's computer hosted software. > > -- > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > www.myspace.com/perboysen > www.stockholm-athens.com >