Re: Building A Sampler/Looper around a barebone computer.

[Romain <rtristelune@yahoo.fr>]

Thanks for the tips. I was interested in Linux because
I believed it could be good in the looping department
regarding latency...but Windows might be as good if
you tune it, and as you said, there is more available
audio software.

What I expect to get is:
A) A simple and good quality live looping. I mean for
example, I press button 1 on the foot controller,
record let's say a guitar rythm, and if I press button
2 the rythm plays along, and if I play button 3, the
loop is saved but no played + some tricks about
quantization => the sample would be cut nicely, not in
the middle of 2 beats !! 
+ ability to play stop the recorded loops
independantly
B) Some good delays and reverbs, switchable via foot
controller
C) Weird FX (bit-crusher, octaver) switchable as well
D) Ability to trigger some pre-recorded samples as
well.

I guess I can achieve this with little latency on a
pretty small computer with windows OS if I tune it for
music only.
--- Jeff Larson <Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM> a écrit :

> Romain Rochas wrote:
> > 3)- A pedal board => should be plugged directly
> via USB or Via a 
> > MIDI->USB interface (Midiman) (any suggestions ?)
> 
> Behringer FCB 1010 with any single port MIDI->USB
> interface.
> 
> > About software, I need:
> > 4) - a live processing main software which can
> loop and which can map 
> > the pedal actions to actual sampling/processing
> command
> 
> Well, this is a rather large topic that is discussed
> at least
> once a month here and on many other forums.  If
> you're determined
> to use Linux you should explore some forums devoted
> to Linux audio
> applications.  There are some good Linux looping
> applications such
> as SooperLooper and Freewheeling, but in general I
> think you will
> find that there aren't many choices unless you are
> willing to write
> your own software.  By far the majority of audio
> applications run
> on Mac or Windows.
> 
> > The idea will be to have the audio main
> application being launched at OS 
> > startup, so I would'nt even need a screen (could
> display the presets 
> > info on the pedal board ?)
> 
> I doubt you will be able to do this without a
> screen.  Even dedicated
> hardware devices have LCD's and LED's to give you
> some idea of what
> is happening. There are no pedal boards that I'm
> aware of that display
> messages sent to it by the computer.
> 
> If you were more specific about exactly the kinds of
> looping/sampling/fx
> functions you want you may get better advice.   But
> unless you can find
> what you need on Linux or are willing to invest many
> months of time writing
> your own software, you will be better off buying a
> cheap Windows laptop
> or Mac Mini, learning about VST plugins, and
> exploring the very large world
> of audio software for those platforms.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 



        

        
                
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