Lately I have been playing with delay with max time and high delay feedback to make some ambiance, and I’ve loved introducing artefacts in the feedback a lot.
I have been using my OT for mangling loops for a decade now, and I am impressed how it is still relevant in this department, especially if you’re ok with lofi or use pedals (such as Chase Bliss for instance). And, of course, ready to dive in.
Talking about Chase Bliss, I am rulling out Blooper because I want stereo.
Anyway, I figured out I had a blind spot here.
Especially when YT algo suggested me this vid where Hainbach compares 3 loopers.
I have ruled out Ciat Lombarde cause it’s super expensive and I have still to find someone that uses it in a way that would fit my own style.
Please, help me gather this list, especially if you have some experience with it.
If a thread already exists, could be better to continue the discussion there.
I am not talking about standard loopers: I want something that let the user have an action on the feedback.
Add Strymon volante to the list. Tape looper (up to 1 min) with SOS tape decay, plus space echo style delay, plus plate reverb. You just need a beefier reverb after and you’re off to the races (or ambient drone tracks)
Miles Away is one of the synthfluencers whose videos I tend to check out. (This is not meant as an endorsement, but just disclosure.) Saw that he was playing an EP into the Cosmos and it sounded pretty good.
I find it hard to evaluate whether I would enjoy the workflow of something like a looper just based on YT demo vids. It feels like I would have to own it and try it hands on to figure out it it really gels for me.
I should make it a bit clearer: I am not looking for one of the standard Loopers.
I want something that let the user have an action on the feedback. Or that adds artefacts itself.
And stereo is a must (hoping a stereo Blooper is coming tonight).
For creative looping in hardware, I tend to squeeze everything I can out of an Eventide H90. It’s no small chunk of change, but it can shapeshift to cover most any effect, including loop variations.
The eponymous H90 Looper being an obvious choice. It shines using double Loopers in Series / Parallel routings, with potential to gang together both sets of transport controls. But more to your point, in combinations with any of the other 70+ algorithms.
You’re not limited to only that looper algorithm, though. Many, many other alternatives are possible, if you can live with 3-6-12-24 second loops. I’ll list some links to a few granular+ looping uploads, more for the descriptions of various creative applications for stereo looping.
A potentially more fun and flexible approach is to take any stereo looper and a mixer with sends, return the looper track to its own mixer channel and make your own feedback loop. Then you can put any effects you want in the feedback loop.
I had a Spotykach for about 4 months this last year & was pretty active in the discord when they were working out the bugs & asking & implementing features from the community. i think its a super cool machine & i love the idea of a community collaboration. the coders & synthux team were so kind, responsive, & engaging but in the end, i felt it became a bit too convoluted. like they tried to pack in so much to this thing that it ended up feeling waterlogged. i dont mind button combos but i kept forgetting em & eventually admitted to myself it wasnt clicking with me. just didnt feel worth it for the price cause its not cheap. i ended up selling it & getting a tascam 414 & a norns im as happy as a loop junkie can be. but all that said i do think its a great looper with a lot of great features! & my experience with the synthux folks was a very pleasant one.
I do think that Norns has so many amazing experimental loopers like Cheat Codes, mlre, otis, & so many more. def worth a look!
also 2 experimental modular loopers ive been looking at are Gloop & Veno Orbit! long live the loop!
agreed but lowering clock speed to lengthen and messing with decaying loops into a constantly overdubbing buffer is wonderful.
Puremagnetik LAPs: I do have issues with but 3x 20s stereo loops, modulation of start and end time, bandpass filter and panning for each loop, can pitch up/down an octave…pretty cool. 3 separate loops or you can duplicate a loop to another slot…maybe for weird chorusing/loop phasing etc.
cosmos always intrigued me until I worked out how to recreate in octa
basically all roads lead back to octa nless you want something like ehx freeze that octa cannot do, but would be great starting point for delays
I had much trouble juggling with OT tonight, I couldn’t get some correct Cue volume so that my TRK7 record buffer had a constant volume level, even with compression. Got to work this a bit more.
yes sometimes it does odd things to me too - i had to step away last night after a wired low track volume or parts thing happened and i couldnt work it out
