Re: Question about multiple looping setup

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

If you are not in a hurry you may wait until information on the LP-2
gets around. Your members could have one each, I imagine. If MIDI
synced with a cable.

Another setup that I know would work is a computer with multi input
audio interface and the software looper Mobius. Mobius has eight
tracks (as default) and you can set it to let each track pick its own
audio input, to let members sing into their individual microphones.
This would work both on Windows and OS X.

An OS X only solution would be Apple's Mainstage. It has a built-in
looper plugin called Loopback. You can open one instance of Loopback
per choir member and adress individual audio inputs and also sync
them. Mainstage provides less control for each member to do things
like creating a loop on his/her track, overdub more layers into a
loop, reversing a loop, fading in or out etc.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub



On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Siobahn Hotaling <siobahn@nxivm.com> 
wrote:
> Hello everyone -
>
> I am looking for some advice on a looping setup -
>
> I am part of a 4 person a cappella group and we want to start to include 
>some looping in our live performances (we used to have 6 members and we 
>are trying to recreate some of the layers using just the 4 of us) but we 
>aren't sure what is the best way to go about doing it...
>
> We obviously would need something that each of us could individually cue 
>for our parts (i.e. a pedal or something that would be easy to use); 
>additionally, a single pedal with multiple inputs (even like the Boss 50) 
>wouldn't work, as we would need to have separate signals into the 
>soundboard for proper mixing, and that would consolidate our feed into 
>one output...
>
> We are not averse to going for a computer-based method if necessary, but 
>we definitely would want to do what is most cost-effective AND reliable...
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on a possible setup?  I 
>personally have used an Akai Headrush in some of my solo live gigs but 
>I'm not too familiar with software-based looping or other devices...
>
> Thanks so much!
>
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