LOOPER for LIVE GIGS - Suggestions?

CD player or minidisk? Record tracks ahead of the gig. Minidisk is better because you can rearrange the tracks without re-recording them.

Max Arwood

Planist....totally off topic but...

I listened to about the first half of your songs and I really like what I heard. Really nice vibe and arrangements. Sound quality is quite good as well. I remember particularly liking "Me And All Four". Nice work on the tunes and the mixes man!

Bryan,

thank you for the compliments. its good ot hear that someones listening and even likes my music. The songs are almost 1 1/2 half years old (i didnt update the soundclick site in a long time). A friend of mine and I will release a 4 track EP in autumn with a female singer. I will be posting the results in the songs forum ;-)...

planist

Isn't that exactly the sort of thing that Ableton Live! is made for?

I know it is not a Cakewalk product, but I've heard that for live work, throwing loops
or wav onto your workspace during a gig, it all links up, syncs up, you can trigger
with whatever box, and now you can use midi in addition to loops.
Never tried Live! myself.

Point is, you can use Sonar to create, and something like Live! to recombine your
stuff in different arrangements, play along with it, doing extra verses, etc.

But who knows what Sonar 5 will have ...

I second RC-20, DL4 has nice functionality, but 14 seconds can be limiting. The Kaoss pad does some cool stuff with samples, but only holds 12 seconds. The Boomerang seems to be perfect for this, but I've never used one myself.

I believe that the Electrix Repeater is still the best one around and it is now back under production. It can do 4 tracks and can store 99 loops and you are only limited by the size of the CF card. It is 16bit and quite impressive. See www.electrixpro.com

Scott

thanks scott

have never seen this before..

ill take a look

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I’ve been looking around for this, and I haven’t been satisfied. I have the Boss RC-20. I use it for a live solo guitar/vocal deal. It’s limitation is this: I can use my feet to record loop 1 and loop it. But to get the next loop going, I must bend down, hit a save button, deal with the fact that loop 1 stops playback, switch a selector knob to next memory slot, and proceed as above.

The Boomerang has 2 slots, A and B. The user can do the above with feet only.

The Gibson product has plenty of slots, but goes for around $1K.

Ableton Live – I haven’t seen anyone come up with a straightforward way to use this with midi or other pedals. If I’m wrong, though, someone please direct me.

I'd like to be able to create loops on the fly to the backing parts to the 3 or 4 sections found in songs I like. So when I get to section 2 of a song for first time, I'd like to be able to, with my feet, begin the recording of loop 2, while stopping any playback or recording of loop 1. And so on.

Does anyone think this is a goal that won't be possible in the near future?

Jerry

Ableton Live – I haven’t seen anyone come up with a straightforward way to use this with midi or other pedals. If I’m wrong, though, someone please direct me.

Jerry, good thoughts about live looping! ;)

what i am thinking about is using the JAMMAN (Digitech) (like RC20 but has a card slot) in connection wich some one MIDI sending groovebox (Yahama DX200)
- prepare some loops before going onstage load them into the JAmman (with specific lenght/bpm)

BUT what is when i record some loops into the JAmman onstage and want to improvise a little in connection with a drumgroovebox that mustnot stop playback (think about House.Music in a club).. is this possible?

what i am missing/thinking is
- a LoopBox with MIDI IN, it would recognize the bpm and/or the start of the loops of the drum machine
- different loops to be loadable/playable at on time

planist

a video from a guy who performs solo beatbox/vocal type stuff using nothing but a mic, Live, and a MIDI footpedal.

I had to see what you are talking about so I hunted down the thread.

Is the JAMMAN new? It seems to have the RC-20 beat hands-down, although some kind of MIDI implementation with it would be interesting. Compact flash and USB connectivity are very nice. I need to play with one of these.

Not cheap, but another interesting option for sampling and live performance is the Roland SPD-S.