Advice Needed: Single-Button Looping? (à la Loopor)
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 10:40 pm
Looping newbie, here, so maybe this is too obvious.
Anyone has clear advice on a single-button setup in SL? More specifically, would like to use the same MIDI CC to set loops of arbitrary lengths (record while pressed), overdub, and reset with double-tap. Or some other simple setup which would allow me to fully control loops with only one control.
Recently got a MIDI Expression iO adapter (which allows pedals and footswitches to work in MIDI). Also bought two Marshall two-button footswitches (PEDL90010). One of them doesn’t really work and the other one sends the same signal through both buttons (so the MEiO produces the same MIDI control with either button). Which means that a single button is available to me, at this point. Still a whole lot of fun. Tried different loopers on different platforms (macOS, iOS, Raspberry Pi). So far, my favourite setup is with Loopor on MODEP (MOD Emulation for Pisound, a special setup based on the Raspberry Pi). Developed for the MOD Duo pedalboard, Loopor is a very simple looper which works as described with a single button. Used that setup during a drone day jam the day after getting the MEiO and it was really fun.
(SL does work in MODEP but Loopor felt easier to use.)
Would like to find something similar on other platforms, especially macOS (LPX/MS). Getting close to this, but just not quite, especially in terms of resetting a loop.
Should soon get other pedals to use in MEiO, but a single-button setup is so convenient that it’d be better for me to use those for other things.
Thank!
– Alex
Anyone has clear advice on a single-button setup in SL? More specifically, would like to use the same MIDI CC to set loops of arbitrary lengths (record while pressed), overdub, and reset with double-tap. Or some other simple setup which would allow me to fully control loops with only one control.
Recently got a MIDI Expression iO adapter (which allows pedals and footswitches to work in MIDI). Also bought two Marshall two-button footswitches (PEDL90010). One of them doesn’t really work and the other one sends the same signal through both buttons (so the MEiO produces the same MIDI control with either button). Which means that a single button is available to me, at this point. Still a whole lot of fun. Tried different loopers on different platforms (macOS, iOS, Raspberry Pi). So far, my favourite setup is with Loopor on MODEP (MOD Emulation for Pisound, a special setup based on the Raspberry Pi). Developed for the MOD Duo pedalboard, Loopor is a very simple looper which works as described with a single button. Used that setup during a drone day jam the day after getting the MEiO and it was really fun.
(SL does work in MODEP but Loopor felt easier to use.)
Would like to find something similar on other platforms, especially macOS (LPX/MS). Getting close to this, but just not quite, especially in terms of resetting a loop.
Should soon get other pedals to use in MEiO, but a single-button setup is so convenient that it’d be better for me to use those for other things.
Thank!
– Alex