Yes, you can do this sort of thing in
Kyma. You could even shuffle your small loop back and fore in the large loop
or time stretch /compress loops using granular options -
nice:)
Gareth
much like the Line 6 lets you record backwards and half speed.. but
with more control.
And finally, and most importantly.. the ability to
loop smaller points of the larger loop, and overdub over those.
Ah yes, this is a
tricky one, because when you stop looping the sub-loop an d go back to a
longer loop, you might end up with clicks at the edges of the sub-loop. I have
been trying to solve that problem with little crossfades at either end of the
sub-loop, but I want to be able to keep playing the larger loop while
recording into the sub-loop also, and haven't quite figured out how to keep
the crossfades perfect at all times. I was ready to bail on this feature but
it's cool to hear that someone else has thought it would be useful, so I'll
try and get back into it.
Hmm.. any ideas folks?
Please
let me know if you would be philosophically, pragmatically, spiritually,
nutritionally or legally open to a software solution. I can't promise a
release yet but I am taking the looper I have been working on for the past
three years a wee bit more seriously lately, since there seems to be more
people interested in live radical loop-munging then I previously would have
guessed. I think the hardware products are great for what they do, and they do
a lot, but I do not know of any that let you overdub simultaneously into
multiple backwards varispeed loops, while playing complex sequences of
subsegments of other loops, in 5.1 surround, and that's the sort of sonic mess
I like to make.
-Alex
S.
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