One Stomp looper revisted
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:56 am
Thanks to the work of motherbrain5000 and Tone Deft, I decided to develop the one stomp pedal looper into a rack. I still needed a second track to help quantise the loop end though.
Here You Go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8gmzyhd8dxc
Instructions:
1. Create 1 midi yoke, IAC line or use a cable from a MIDI in port to a MIDI out port.
2. In Preferences, MIDI/Sync set the Input to Remote, and the Output to track.
3. In Preferences, Record/Launch/Warp, Check that "Select on Launch" and "Select Next Scene on launch" are off.
4. Check any External Instrument devices to make sure the MIDI channel matches the Title bar of the device.
5. Check the Play track is set to channel 2.
6. Use the chain selector to choose between manual and Quantised loop recording. Loop lengths ought to match the global quantisation settings.
7. Assign your pedal/key/note to the Pedal clip.
8. Arm all the Loop tracks.
9. Click on a clip in the scene where you want to start recording.
10. Start stomping - it's ok to stomp to start another clip whilst one is recording, BUT don't stomp again before a loop starts recording.
Three things I found out whilst working on this.
Midi devices in a chain still send midi through an external instrument MIDI out, even though the chain is muted. This is inconsistent with a MIDI-only track, which stops sending midi to the port when the track activator is off.
There needs to be at least a demisemiquaver delay between arming a track and starting a recording on that track in session view. I was trying to arm a track and record at the same time - no luck.
Opening a live set with the tracks all armed, but not monitoring briefly allowed some of the audio input signal through. It could be a problem with my audio interface, but I've left all the tracks unarmed.
Please let me know if this works for you.
Here You Go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8gmzyhd8dxc
Instructions:
1. Create 1 midi yoke, IAC line or use a cable from a MIDI in port to a MIDI out port.
2. In Preferences, MIDI/Sync set the Input to Remote, and the Output to track.
3. In Preferences, Record/Launch/Warp, Check that "Select on Launch" and "Select Next Scene on launch" are off.
4. Check any External Instrument devices to make sure the MIDI channel matches the Title bar of the device.
5. Check the Play track is set to channel 2.
6. Use the chain selector to choose between manual and Quantised loop recording. Loop lengths ought to match the global quantisation settings.
7. Assign your pedal/key/note to the Pedal clip.
8. Arm all the Loop tracks.
9. Click on a clip in the scene where you want to start recording.
10. Start stomping - it's ok to stomp to start another clip whilst one is recording, BUT don't stomp again before a loop starts recording.
Three things I found out whilst working on this.
Midi devices in a chain still send midi through an external instrument MIDI out, even though the chain is muted. This is inconsistent with a MIDI-only track, which stops sending midi to the port when the track activator is off.
There needs to be at least a demisemiquaver delay between arming a track and starting a recording on that track in session view. I was trying to arm a track and record at the same time - no luck.
Opening a live set with the tracks all armed, but not monitoring briefly allowed some of the audio input signal through. It could be a problem with my audio interface, but I've left all the tracks unarmed.
Please let me know if this works for you.