Re: cheap looping AU plugin

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Cool. To play with others you need a quick way of adjusting your
loop/loops to a changing tempo. This can be done on two ways:
- Retriggering the loops.
- Deleting everything and make up a new loop on-the-fly (that goes
better with what the band does at the moment)

I know Mobius does both brilliantly and I think SooperLooper does too.
One trick when looping with a band is to not use a lot of parallel
loops but overdub many layers into the same loop. Then you are always
just one butt-kick from jumping back on track (kick Record to erase
and make a new better loop). Set up a pedal for instant retrigger of
the loop, with that you can adjust the loop start and keep a loop a
little longer even though the other guys have stretched the tempo.

Augustus Loop has a punch-in function as well (check the manual). It
doesn't have a Multiply function like the EDP context but you can get
around changing the loop length rather smoothly if starting by setting
the Sync to 1/32. This one goes up to 1/1 and that means a much longer
loop than the first one you catch live by the punch-in method.

Per


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com> wrote:
> hei thaanks os,per & jesse!
> will try augustus demo and SL and see which one better addresses my 
>needs...
> primarily i'm trying to build a simpler setup for playing with others 
>(non
> loopers) quite different approach when going for  solo looping rigs where
> bidule+mobius are so powerful.
> raul.
> 2008/11/23 Jesse Chappell <jesse@essej.net>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > hi guys,
>> > just asking my fellow macbook loopers about any kind of
>> > looping plugin to test it inside mainstage.
>>
>> Try out SooperLooper, http://essej.net/sooperlooper , it has both an
>> AU and a standalone version.  See the mailing list archives and forum
>> for info about its use in MainStage.
>>
>> jlc