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On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Ben Edwards <astralmnemonics@gmail.com> wrote: > How many of you are using multiple loopers/samplers linked together for > layering? Not me... :-) Any more. I have done it, sort of, in the past. Not for layering though, since sync between devices didn't lock up well. In the slave sync position I used a multi track looper (Electrixpro Repeater) and since it offered four parallel mono tracks per loop I used that device for laying down stuff that I wanted to go tight together, even though I time-shifted tracks etc inside the box. The Repeater was constantly busy to follow MIDI Clock signal coming from my main looper, an EDP. So whenever I changed tempo in the EDP the slave looper fell into an epileptic time loops and rubber-band-repelled back into a non defined range hovering around the correct tempo. The EDP though was rock solid so I used that one for layering parts that need to sit tight with rhythm. I think this approach is good to use with all MIDI Clock synced devices; putting "rubber band friendly material" into the slave synced looper and timing critical stuff in the master sync looper. Today I use Mobius on a laptop but if I needed to play with several hardware loopers today I think my first idea would be trying to get along without any sync at all. I would daisy-chain them and start looping in the first box and when I run into needing to multiply up that short loop into several, while adding some long bows, I would simply kick Record on the second looper and record my new longer loop together with the spinning (shorter) first loop. With some cables and a soldering iron one could expand such a hardware looping board into a hardware ping pong system; put in a foot switch that reverses the order of the two loopers, empty the one that you just did copy *from* and now use this unit to copy the second looper's content plus your new live playing. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen