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Thanks for the detailed post! >> However, when making Augustus Feedback level jump radically - like >> between 100% and 70% etc - a nasty click is introduced in the loop's >> audio. I'll put that on my to-do list for the next version. cheers, os. On 4 July 2013 12:42, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > For almost a decade now my favorite looping devices has been software > - Mobius and Augustus Loop (before that I used an EDP with a slaved > Repeater). One of my OS X laptops runs best with 64 bit code and since > Mobius still is 32 only I decided to mock up a new laptop rig based on > Augustus Loop, for this machine (still use Mobius in the USB loop to > my Fractal amp). Here's the test run recording: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4963264/Augustus_Mainstage_SG12.mp3 > > I set up Augustus hosted in Mainstage and as the sync master, meaning > that as soon as I record a loop all effects of Mainstage's will pick > up the tempo. Well this is old news but a new thing for me was to do > Multiply in Augustus. To be honest it works like "Instant Multiply" of > Mobius rather than the traditional EDP-style Multiply (where you play > along in real-time while the first loop gets multiplied behind your > new added longer layer). Anyway, Augustus Loop doesn't just copy audio > if increasing the loop length. The same engine is at work also if you > shrink down the loop to a very short slice and this opens up for some > fun stuttering loop mangling: Record a decently long loop, then change > its length to a short fragment for a very short time and go back to > the long length again. This will create a long loop just as you > previous long loop but with the short time spent as "super shrinked" > substitut by the stuttering short segment (you hear this in my example > recording). > > I found it convenient to have pedals to switch between 1/32 and 1/4 > Beat Divior, between 1/2 and 1/1 and between 4 Beats and 8 Beats. I > think that gave enough tools for on-the-fly looping where you need to > instantly change the loop's length and sometimes its content too. > > Another cool thing I found out is that you can use any LFO to trigger > looping functions in Augustus. Then assign an on/off or (maybe > better?) a momentary foot pedal to activate/deactivate the LFO. With > this trick I could duplicate some of my favorite Mobius scripts. > Typical cool target parameter for such LFO control are Input and > Pitch. With a square wave LFO you get machine like slicing > ("substitute stuff" in EDP-ish) but with a more nifty host like for > example Numerology you may use LFO's that flows through slow > ritardando vs accelerando. > > I also tried to duplicate Mobius Secondary Feedback functionality when > replacing slices of the loop. This I did by having my foot pedal both > open the Input and lower Feedback by the same action. However, when > making Augustus Feedback level jump radically - like between 100% and > 70% etc - a nasty click is introduced in the loop's audio. This has > been an issue with Augustus Loop as far as I can remember. It got > problematic (to my taste - others might like it) because I used non > quantised pedal presses (these artefacts can not be heard in the > example recording). Maybe I can find out a way to trigger only one > cycle of a square wave LFO to make this "Substitute function" > quantised and then get the click sounds turned musical? (as in clics n > cuts style) > > The Fade function is also useful. The clip starts by fading in the > entire loop and in the end I fade it out, both from the same pedal > switch. > > I'm not totally dependent on live looping to play out though, here's a > video of non looping playing - the kind of stuff I do as street > busking now to survive in the bad economy: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwQWNk0kTM&feature=share&list=UUnSXZEo96CzV7dA2kQ6I3hQ > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > -- os@collective.co.uk http://twitter.com/expertsleepers http://www.darkroomtheband.net/ http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/