UMI3 plus SooperLooper
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:17 pm
Hi All,
Thanks for creating such a cool piece of software Jesse. I'm planning on using SooperLooper + a Presonus FireBox + steel guitar, mic, cello & regular guitar + the UMI3 in a new project (with a really offensive name I shall not mention here) ... we'll be performing in LA on Jan 11th.
I just got the UMI3 in the mail: http://www.logidy.com/
It's an inexpensive ($50) sturdy little USB powered footswitch. Just 3 switches, but it is able to have multiple scenes stored. So for example, what I was playing with last night was having the 3rd button switch the first two through 3 scenes...
scene 1:
1: select loop
2: mute loop
scene 2:
1: record
2: overdub
scene 3:
1: reverse
2: undo
I realize these aren't the best mappings, but all in all it was rather easy to do. I might use the note on/note off to get slightly finer grain control, but I'm interested in seeing how other people would do this. I can set up as many as 8 scenes, so this is a pretty cool thing. Each scene means that the buttons send different midi note ons (and note offs) (or optionally other midi signals)
I will be testing this out, working out the bugs, etc over the coming weeks. Also I plan on writing a review and doing a video of using it.
It took me about 30 minutes to get things working (always seem to forget midi patchbay)
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there. Let me know if you have questions, advice, etc. I really like that the pedal is much much much smaller than the behringer or the roland. It also has an expression pedal input, which I will be trying with my Alesis F2 pedal (which cost as much as the logidy itself!)
-rich
Thanks for creating such a cool piece of software Jesse. I'm planning on using SooperLooper + a Presonus FireBox + steel guitar, mic, cello & regular guitar + the UMI3 in a new project (with a really offensive name I shall not mention here) ... we'll be performing in LA on Jan 11th.
I just got the UMI3 in the mail: http://www.logidy.com/
It's an inexpensive ($50) sturdy little USB powered footswitch. Just 3 switches, but it is able to have multiple scenes stored. So for example, what I was playing with last night was having the 3rd button switch the first two through 3 scenes...
scene 1:
1: select loop
2: mute loop
scene 2:
1: record
2: overdub
scene 3:
1: reverse
2: undo
I realize these aren't the best mappings, but all in all it was rather easy to do. I might use the note on/note off to get slightly finer grain control, but I'm interested in seeing how other people would do this. I can set up as many as 8 scenes, so this is a pretty cool thing. Each scene means that the buttons send different midi note ons (and note offs) (or optionally other midi signals)
I will be testing this out, working out the bugs, etc over the coming weeks. Also I plan on writing a review and doing a video of using it.
It took me about 30 minutes to get things working (always seem to forget midi patchbay)
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there. Let me know if you have questions, advice, etc. I really like that the pedal is much much much smaller than the behringer or the roland. It also has an expression pedal input, which I will be trying with my Alesis F2 pedal (which cost as much as the logidy itself!)
-rich