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NanoKontrol, I'd say; but you still have your handy mixer that can do more, I think. Cheap, light and easy to program. I own an iPhone since 2 years now and sometime I use it for music in live situation but I'm not attracted by using it as a controller. I do think its display is too small, if you need a lot of midi controls. Sure, iPad is better in that domain. Me too don't like to concentrate my sight on screens while I play: better having an easy access to your controller so you don't have to break your musical fluxus. -f www.eterogeneo.com Il giorno 02/giu/2011, alle ore 22:15, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> ha scritto: > 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 >