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How about using an ipod touch in one of those arm strap cases? Like the ones runners use to listen to their music. Using some control software you could quickly press some buttons on your arm?? I haven't tried it myself yet though but it sounds like it could be a nice way to add a few more controls right at your fingertips.\ Todd Matthews On Jun 2, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Per Boysen wrote: > What's your take on the ultimate question of finding a balance between > playing and controlling looper actions? > > Personally my rig is set up with four stereo loopers in parallel. > Sometimes I create loops in all four to fade them in and out > seamlessly but other times I stick with only one channel and overdub > musical parts as new layers into the same loop, then typically > creating a bunch of (never more than five) alternative linear loops to > jump between as "A-B-C" song parts. > > It was a year now since I skipped bringing a little MIDI hand mixer > and my recent live looping is all controlled by just one MIDI foot > pedalboard with ten switches and two expression pedal. However, I'm > now thinking of plugging in my old mini MIDI hand mixer again as well > as getting a third expression pedal in. I've been feeling > uncomfortable with the heavy "tap dancing" on the control pedals > needed for such a foot dependent control situation. I want to get back > to having most looper commands instantly available for both feet and > hands. My foot controller, the Gordius Little Giant 2, offers ten > switches in one bank and if you need to give a command that is > included in another bank you will have to first kick the bank change > switch, then kick the apart command, then kick the bank change switch > again in order to get back into the the bank where you are mostly > busy. Better than to stay in the fist bank and simply move one hand > off the instrument for two seconds to press a MIDI button on the side > table for the apart command. Or what? > > The three expression pedals are for > 1) Looper Feedback, > 2) Live Audio Input Swell (manual fade-in/out, typically used to get a > soft violin-like note attack) combined with Freeze-reverb (in a > crossfade value manner). > 3) Activating tremolo stuttering of the (pre looper) Freeze-reverb and > sweep through rhythmic values between 1/4 note and 1/68 note. > > The looper function I have been dissing for the last year is Feedback, > but I want to get back to it now with this third expression pedal. > It's nice to have the option do pieces that focus on only one loop, > using the feedback function as a sculpturing tool. > > With the returning little hand mixer I'm getting back to controlling > the Mobius looper's Secondary Feedback globally from a robust hand > mixer fader. I use Secondary Feedback for Substitute, as a way to > control how much of the old audio layers will be kept vs thrown out > under a new slice I cut into the loop. I tried to replace this hand > control fader by a foot switch set up as > > 1 click = Secondary Feedback 0 > 2 clicks = Secondary Feedback 64 (my default) > 3 clicks = Secondary Feedback 110 > 4 clicks = Secondary Feedback 127 (equaling "Overdub") > > But it just got to too much tap dancing ;-)) And I noticed I often > need to dial in more precise Secondary Feedback values than those > four. And four rapid clicks on a foot switch is kind of the upper > limit for how many functions you can stack on the same switch anyway. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > www.looproom.com internet music hub > -------------------- Todd Matthews toddbass.com twitter: gtodd876