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Doctor Os, sweet savior - how great to have you in the loop! :-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Os <os@collective.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks for the detailed post! > >>> However, when making Augustus Feedback level jump radically - like >>> between 100% and 70% etc - a nasty click is introduced in the loop's >>> audio. > > I'll put that on my to-do list for the next version. > > > cheers, > os. > > > On 4 July 2013 12:42, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: >> For almost a decade now my favorite looping devices has been software >> - Mobius and Augustus Loop (before that I used an EDP with a slaved >> Repeater). One of my OS X laptops runs best with 64 bit code and since >> Mobius still is 32 only I decided to mock up a new laptop rig based on >> Augustus Loop, for this machine (still use Mobius in the USB loop to >> my Fractal amp). Here's the test run recording: >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4963264/Augustus_Mainstage_SG12.mp3 >> >> I set up Augustus hosted in Mainstage and as the sync master, meaning >> that as soon as I record a loop all effects of Mainstage's will pick >> up the tempo. Well this is old news but a new thing for me was to do >> Multiply in Augustus. To be honest it works like "Instant Multiply" of >> Mobius rather than the traditional EDP-style Multiply (where you play >> along in real-time while the first loop gets multiplied behind your >> new added longer layer). Anyway, Augustus Loop doesn't just copy audio >> if increasing the loop length. The same engine is at work also if you >> shrink down the loop to a very short slice and this opens up for some >> fun stuttering loop mangling: Record a decently long loop, then change >> its length to a short fragment for a very short time and go back to >> the long length again. This will create a long loop just as you >> previous long loop but with the short time spent as "super shrinked" >> substitut by the stuttering short segment (you hear this in my example >> recording). >> >> I found it convenient to have pedals to switch between 1/32 and 1/4 >> Beat Divior, between 1/2 and 1/1 and between 4 Beats and 8 Beats. I >> think that gave enough tools for on-the-fly looping where you need to >> instantly change the loop's length and sometimes its content too. >> >> Another cool thing I found out is that you can use any LFO to trigger >> looping functions in Augustus. Then assign an on/off or (maybe >> better?) a momentary foot pedal to activate/deactivate the LFO. With >> this trick I could duplicate some of my favorite Mobius scripts. >> Typical cool target parameter for such LFO control are Input and >> Pitch. With a square wave LFO you get machine like slicing >> ("substitute stuff" in EDP-ish) but with a more nifty host like for >> example Numerology you may use LFO's that flows through slow >> ritardando vs accelerando. >> >> I also tried to duplicate Mobius Secondary Feedback functionality when >> replacing slices of the loop. This I did by having my foot pedal both >> open the Input and lower Feedback by the same action. However, when >> making Augustus Feedback level jump radically - like between 100% and >> 70% etc - a nasty click is introduced in the loop's audio. This has >> been an issue with Augustus Loop as far as I can remember. It got >> problematic (to my taste - others might like it) because I used non >> quantised pedal presses (these artefacts can not be heard in the >> example recording). Maybe I can find out a way to trigger only one >> cycle of a square wave LFO to make this "Substitute function" >> quantised and then get the click sounds turned musical? (as in clics n >> cuts style) >> >> The Fade function is also useful. The clip starts by fading in the >> entire loop and in the end I fade it out, both from the same pedal >> switch. >> >> I'm not totally dependent on live looping to play out though, here's a >> video of non looping playing - the kind of stuff I do as street >> busking now to survive in the bad economy: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwQWNk0kTM&feature=share&list=UUnSXZEo96CzV7dA2kQ6I3hQ >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.perboysen.com >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >> > > > > -- > os@collective.co.uk > http://twitter.com/expertsleepers > http://www.darkroomtheband.net/ > http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/ >