Bome is the Windows version of Midi Translator.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Bill Fox
<billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:
Robert Lewis wrote:
I'm looking for a recommendation for a looping pedal that I'll use for live solo shows.
I need something high-end that lets me not just simply build on top of short loops, but also allows me to drop tracks in and out, and to switch between an A part and B part (verse to chorus, for example). Basically, I want a pedal that will allow me to play entire songs (in the vein of Radiohead/Sigur Ros/Boards of Canada) alone and with a minimum of pre-recording.
I'm currently looking at a few things: a Boss RC-50, Echoplex Digital Pro, Abelton software (I'd bring a laptop onstage and trigger it with footpedals), or a combo of pedals that can be synched together. Currently I own a Line DL-4, which got me hooked on looping but which has become very limited very quickly.
Any recommendations what would work best for my needs? I can't get these items here in Korea, so I need to be sure about what I'm getting before I have it shipped over.
Hi Robert,
For live looping, I'm afraid that I'm low tech/old school style with an Akai Headrush (the oldest model). I know that's not what you want but I just put that out there as a point of reference.
I also have Ableton Live. For now, I'm learning how to make my own MIDI clips (loops). I suppose I should also learn how to make my own audio clips, too, although it seems straight forward enough. This is good for using prepared material for triggering. Live is great at mapping MIDI messages to button presses in Live so triggering clips from a keyboard is child's play.
Some day, I'd like to be able to do looping with Live in real time, both audio and MIDI. Unfortunately, I have been rather slow at wrapping my head around Live's features. I have an RFC-1 (MIDI Mitigator) as a footpedal which I'd have to relearn since I haven't used in years. My understanding is that it can send any kind of message required. My big problem is that I've watched the Kid Beyond video and he mentioned MIDI Translator, a program for Windows that translates MIDI events into sequences of qwerty keyboard strokes. I haven't been able to find it and am hoping it isn't required for live looping. While my laptop is running Windows XP, I can see that I will some day get a Macbook Pro and don't want whatever I develop to fall apart by a change in OS.
Cheers,
Bill