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Hi Simon, And welcome to the list! If you can stand recording on a computer I think Ableton Live will do all the things you listed. However, if you should want to record by overdubbing many layers into the same loop it gets a little complicated in Live. But as you did not specify overdub looping I take it you don't want to do that and I can recommend Live. There's a free demo to download with a very good PDF manual so you can really check it out deeply before buying. http://www.ableton.com/ When recording loops into Live you can prepare a session by assigning midi notes, or foot pedals if you want, to empty slots. You start the sequencer and as you send the controller midi addressing a certain slot it starts recording. Then it keeps on recording until you send the same msg a second time. Voila - there you have a loop, without ever stopping the groove. You can go directly from recording into having the loop immediately playing back. Just listen, play, record, evaluate, delete, play again and so on. I have also been using the Repeater and although it has only four tracks it will let you overdub as many layers you need on each track. Except for being a piece of dedicated hardware that's the biggest difference IMHO. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen --- http://www.looproom.com (international) http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen On Nov 24, 2004, at 21:53, simon absent wrote: > hi! > > thuis is mt first thread, i am a new member of this list - hjello > everyone > :-) > > well i have a question which i am sure you can answer fore me... > > i want to become a member of the looping community but i have problems > finding the right tool. so i thought i'd describe what i want to do > and you > tell me which looper will suit my needs, okay? > > here i go: > > what i want to do basicly is find a better way to setting up grooves > and > soundcapes - using a sequencer and having to stop playing is a pain in > the... > > i need a device, which lets me record loops as intuitive as possible. > i want > to record my individual instruments on to several tracks, because > after i > have finished the jam session and i'm satisfied with the result i want > to > make a song of that matrerial. but if i have it all recorded in the > device > it is one soundfile and i can not split it up again for arranging and > mixing > - so it should be a recorder which has as many individual tracks (and > outputs) as possible. of course if i record two similar guitars, i > should > also be also able to merge them to one track. > > it doesn't need to have an output for each track - it would be also > okay i > (once finished with a loop) could playback every part of which the loop > consists seperately and record that onto harddisc - when finished i can > rearrange the soundfile and rebuild the loop in a audio sequencer - - > then > start arranging. > > also it would be cool if the device could play several loops in a row, > say i > recorded the "verse" and then i want the "refrain" loop to come > afterwards... and so on. > > my best choice so far was the electrix reopeater - but it only has four > tracks. if i could sync two of them it would be just fine... > > or do you have any other devices which are even better for my purpose? > > > tell me, i would apreciate any help from you!!! > > simon > > > > > > > > > -- > Geschenkt: 3 Monate GMX ProMail + 3 Top-Spielfilme auf DVD > ++ Jetzt kostenlos testen http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail ++ > >