Re: Record while loop is playing?

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

Yes. I had a Repeater for a while and could do that. Sorry, I forgot  
to mention it but I was thinking about more like the mixer channel  
trick :-)

/ per


On Sep 26, 2005, at 0:19, Kelly Coyle wrote:

> Shouldn't that be possible with the Repeater by manipulating the  
> track volumes? (I don't have one...)
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2005, at 5:06 PM, Per Boysen wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 25, 2005, at 22:40, John Harding wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Loopers Delight mailing list,
>>> I’m hoping someone out there can answer a looping-related  
>>> question for me.  Can anyone tell me if there are any looping  
>>> devices capable of doing this…
>>> While one loop is playing, I’d like to be able to record another  
>>> part silently (like with a sort of mute button or something).   
>>> Then, at the appropriate time, I’d like to be able to  
>>> simultaneously and seamlessly stop the first loop, and drop the  
>>> second one in to replace it.
>>> I’ve been doing some research on this matter, but haven’t had any  
>>> luck finding answers yet.  Hopefully this isn’t a question that’s  
>>> been answered a million times already, I know how irritating that  
>>> can be.  If it is, I apologize!  But this is kind of a last  
>>> resort for me.
>>> Thanks,
>>> JWH
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I've done that with two looping devices by muting and un-muting  
>> their mixer channel, but I don't know any looping device that can  
>> do it by itself. This was discussed two weeks ago on the Mobius  
>> list and Matthias Loibner said he uses that trick when looping  
>> live audi input on a laptop running parallel instances of Moebius.  
>> This can of course also be done in the Ableton Live software  
>> (recording to a muted channel while a loop keeps playing on  
>> another channel).
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen