Re: mobius

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

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Simeon Harris
<simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hi per, just listened to your stuff on ubetoo, really inspiring stff man,
> especially the tune called "cute furry thing". you list the software 
>used as
> mobius, but surely there were some other processing/plugins going on? if
> not, how did you create it and can i do something similar with my LP-1?
> thanks man, you're an inspiration!
> sim


Hi Sim,

I played through a TC Electronics Fireworx that was synced to Mobius
(first loop setting the tempo). The sounds I used in the Fireworx are
about the same sounds I now make with the SoundToys Native Bundle AU
plug-in pack (www.soundtoys.com). Before I sold the Fireworx I
examined how my favorite sound patches were put together and it's
pretty simple stuff like using a beta synced LFO to work a cut-off
filter while applying some resonance. Oh... another important factor
is to use an envelope follower on the input level and make that
modulate the filter as well (or the LFO tempo division, which you
don't hear in this song but which is very fun to play with).

The exact way to produce the recording was like most time around here.
I was playing and having fun with looping in Mobius and suddenly it
struck me - "Hey, this is cute, sounds like a little furry animal
inside that laptop", so I stopped playing for a minute to check out a
nice pop style format arrangement to play play the loops. I keep my
hand operated FaderFox button pad assigned to "trigger loop" to
directly access every loop on every track. I never create more than
five loops on a track so it's possible to remember. I think I used
three or four tracks filled up with four loops- So I hit the "Start
record summed output to a stereo file" button in Mobius and fingered
my way through the loops. I did no more live playing on the flute
while rendering the stuff to disk, because I had already captured
enough live playing within some of the loops.

In general, the method was very similar to how some people like to use
Ableton Live. Triggering clips while keeping a mental picture of
possible options like you may envision a Excel Data Sheet. But I think
Mobius is more intuitive than Live. I also used some buttons assigned
directly to the loop's "go reverse on next sub-cycle cusp and keep
playing in reverse until next cycle cusp when you hook up with the
rest of the loop and realign to the main tempo" (a script I did for
Mobius). This little things work as "loop local fills" in the music


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