I’d be careful about offloading looper duties from the OT too early in the game.
It might keep one further from learning all the amazing things the OT can do with loops that a regular looper can’t.
I suggest learning the OT’s looping potential in and out and then later deciding if a synced regular looper would be beneficial…
Here’s a tip for mostly hands free recording without a foot controller that might help:
With qrec and qpl at plen, and rlen set to 64, you can press ab during a pattern cycle, and then a 4 bar recording will happen on the next pattern cycle and begin overdubbing automatically, so you can have both hands during the recording and you can either play into overdub, or just stop playing when it enters overdub and then press cd for playback and let it overdub silence for that cycle…
With one2mode, rlen at max, and setting qrec and qpl to 128 or 256, etc… You press ab, wait for the next pattern cycle, the recording begins, and if you quickly press ab or cd immediately after the recording begins, you’ll get an 8 or 16 bar recording that begins overdub or playback automatically so your hands are free…
Sometimes I begin playing a synth line with my right hand while the left quickly presses cd then moves over to the keyboard…
