rcrath
02-15-2010, 09:49 PM
Hi everyone,
I have been looping in my dreams since the mid seventies, when I tried looping my guitar by hooking two ancient reel to reels together by means of a long circle of tape. Then got one of the lovely old tape echoplexes while in a band in the eighties...used it mostly to liven up vocals through our s**tty PA but would dub out every once in a while...it made some great sounds when you moved the heads and set feedback on high. Was more or lesss broke through the 80s and 90s, so I missed the Jam Man and the second iteration of the echoplex. Started messing with vst plugins and software loopers in the late nineties. Could never afford a mac or protools, but got a semi-pro Turtle Beach sound card and cakewalk and slowly worked my way into the wild world of windoze plugins (can you say "crash?"). Discovering Plogue bidule changed everything for me, and that is what I use for live playing and recording today (with Sonar for more planned out recordings).
I still have files from an old program called ambi-loop which was not half bad, but now my main loopers are mobius, when I can keep it running (http://www.circularlabs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130), an ancient, idiosyncratic plug called ellotronix which has some cool features (here hear (http://way.net/music/audio/Rich%20Rath%20-%20ambient%20080809.mp3)), and Loopy llama, which is stable and never seems to fail.
I have a collection of 500 or so plugins that I like to keep always available and another couple hundred in another directory for special occasions. I guess I am a bit of a plugin freak (http://way.net/waymusic/?tag=vst-plugins). I use about two dozen including all three loopers in my live setup. I also really like arc-dev's free drum looper ellipsis (here/hear in action (http://way.net/music/audio/rreputable/rreplay%20-%20cubanecho.mp3)). It is versatile and easy to control externally. I like setting that up against another "accent" percussion loop in bidule's looper, which lets you only play portions of a loop and leave the rest silent (hear here (http://way.net/tmp/100117_0001.mp3)). That last one also uses a one-bar looper called repeatler with a neat feature of letting you slice chunks out of the loop as well as put them in. I only wish you could set the loop to an arbitrary number of bars. If you like any of the music, I have tons more posted at http://way.net/music.
Happy looping!
I have been looping in my dreams since the mid seventies, when I tried looping my guitar by hooking two ancient reel to reels together by means of a long circle of tape. Then got one of the lovely old tape echoplexes while in a band in the eighties...used it mostly to liven up vocals through our s**tty PA but would dub out every once in a while...it made some great sounds when you moved the heads and set feedback on high. Was more or lesss broke through the 80s and 90s, so I missed the Jam Man and the second iteration of the echoplex. Started messing with vst plugins and software loopers in the late nineties. Could never afford a mac or protools, but got a semi-pro Turtle Beach sound card and cakewalk and slowly worked my way into the wild world of windoze plugins (can you say "crash?"). Discovering Plogue bidule changed everything for me, and that is what I use for live playing and recording today (with Sonar for more planned out recordings).
I still have files from an old program called ambi-loop which was not half bad, but now my main loopers are mobius, when I can keep it running (http://www.circularlabs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130), an ancient, idiosyncratic plug called ellotronix which has some cool features (here hear (http://way.net/music/audio/Rich%20Rath%20-%20ambient%20080809.mp3)), and Loopy llama, which is stable and never seems to fail.
I have a collection of 500 or so plugins that I like to keep always available and another couple hundred in another directory for special occasions. I guess I am a bit of a plugin freak (http://way.net/waymusic/?tag=vst-plugins). I use about two dozen including all three loopers in my live setup. I also really like arc-dev's free drum looper ellipsis (here/hear in action (http://way.net/music/audio/rreputable/rreplay%20-%20cubanecho.mp3)). It is versatile and easy to control externally. I like setting that up against another "accent" percussion loop in bidule's looper, which lets you only play portions of a loop and leave the rest silent (hear here (http://way.net/tmp/100117_0001.mp3)). That last one also uses a one-bar looper called repeatler with a neat feature of letting you slice chunks out of the loop as well as put them in. I only wish you could set the loop to an arbitrary number of bars. If you like any of the music, I have tons more posted at http://way.net/music.
Happy looping!