Re: Looper for minimal music

[Andreas Berg <berg@brainticket.de>]

Thank you for all replies to my question!

Yes, it's for a live setting - the software solution would be in some 
ways easier but for this project i'd like to have a hardware solution. 
But thanks for the software tips - maybe i can use it someday.

I actually already had the repeater in mind but as it is rather 
difficult to even get one my focus went more on the "in stock" 
machinery. I also had the feeling when reading the manual of the 
repeater that - what rainer mentioned - it could be a problem to 
timestretch individual tracks.

For the Octatrack: This device sounds very interesting. But for using it 
only as a looper it might be a bit oversized and the whole thing seems 
to be quite "menue based" for me. But i might give it a try in a 
musicstore. I actually like the idea of manipulating the tracks in 
different ways (also with effects)- does this work in realtime when the 
tracks are played?

But i tried to clear my vision even more and i think there might be the 
most flexibility by using some "small" loopers or delays(?) in chain. It 
would be perfect if i could copy my original loop to different machines 
and control the speed and the pitch and the length of the tracks in 
realtime with knobs. But is there a unit i could do that while the track 
is playing? Controlling speed and pitch might not be a problem - but 
timestretch?