Re: looping question

[Alexandre Klinke <alexandre.klinke@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot Per and Loren, I will try your suggestions in the next
days and post the results later on. I think that working with Mobius
is my best bet.

I have another question, which came to me after I was working on this
virtual guitar quartet idea:

I have four different loop tracks in Sooperlooper, I want them to work
as independent instruments, as in a real guitar quartet. What I'm
trying to achieve is recording the first loop (a 4 bar loop, for
example), then, as soon as I finish recording it, I hit record on the
second loop, while the first one starts looping at the same time. Then
the same thing with the third and fourth loops, each time I press REC
on a new track, the previous track starts looping. The result is the
same as in overdubbing, but this way I would have 4 independent tracks
that could be muted, erased, reversed etc...
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for your help,

Alex


www.myspace.com/alexandreklinke

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Loren Claypool <looper@theclaypools.com> 
wrote:
> I'm using LIve and SooperLooper plus a Tech 21 MIDI Moose + MIDI 
>Solutions
> Pedal Controller + Boss FV-500L stereo volume and expression pedal for
> control. Per is correct, you can setup multiple loops in SooperLooper. 
>I'm
> not looking at in in the moment but in the SooperLooper menu you can add
> loops. The shortcut on a Mac is CMD 1 adds a mono loop and CMD 2 adds a
> stereo loop. My default setup has four stereo loops but I've ran six 
>before;
> if there is a limit I don't know what it is.
>
> I have five buttons on the MIDI MOOSE, plus Up bank and Down bank. My
> current button assignments are:
> 1) Record / Overdub
> 2) Undo
> 3) Reverse
> 4) Next Loop
> 5) Prev Loop.
>
> Truth is, I think I'll dump Prev Loop and replace it with another 
>function
> as I can cycle with just Next Loop through four loops quickly. I use the
> Expression pedal to control the volume of the active loop.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Loren
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Per Boysen wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> What you need for this action is to use a looper that will let you
>> stack several alternative loops on the same track - just like the good
>> old EDP hardware looper does. Mobius can do it in software and Ableton
>> Live can do it if you skip over the Overdub functionality.
>>
>> When I do this on my EDP or Mobius I use a either a command named
>> "Next Loop" or "Previous Loop". I may also go directly to a certain
>> loop, as in the command "Trig Loop 3".
>>
>> On both the EDP and Mobius there is a certain global setting, for
>> preference, where you tell the looper what to do if the loop you are
>> going to is an still en empty slot. People like this different, but I
>> always keep this option as having the looper create a new emptpy loop
>> of one cycle's length in Overdub Mode; so you can keep on playing
>> seamlessly while building up an arrrangement.
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se
>> www.perboysen.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Alexandre Klinke
>> <alexandre.klinke@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If I'm using two different loopers, I would like to record the first
>>> loop, and as soon as I press the switch to start recording the second
>>> loop, I want that the first loop stops at the same time. The idea is
>>> having independent loops that can function as A, B, C parts, so once I
>>> trigger one, the other ones are stopped. Obviously I can't use the
>>> overdub function to do that, and I didn't find a way to assign the
>>> same switch to 2 different functions (i.e.: start recording loop2/
>>> mute loop 1).
>>> Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated. If there's any other
>>> software that can do this (like Mobius), please let me know.
>>> I hope my english is not so bad and my question is clear...
>>> Cheers!
>>
>
> All the best,
>
> Loren Claypool
> genre-indifferent instrumental guitar music
> www.lorenclaypool.com and links from there
>
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