Per Boysen
11-24-2009, 09:42 PM
Hello everyone,
Hope you like Mobius, I just love it! I started looping live back in the early eighties, on guitar and tenor sax, using simple digital delays, harmonizers and reel2reel tape machines. Heard about the Jamman but never found my own before it was discontinued by Lexicon. Heard about the EDP in -99 and picked one up, plus an Electrixpro Repeater (EDP master and Repeater sync slave - a great setup!). Realized I could not keep on using hardware that costs a fortune to travel with so I sold my Repeater to a friend that I thought would make great music with it and tried to dedicate a PC for running Linux in 2003 in order to loop with SooperLooper, but the PC's processor burned out. Oh well... then Apple released their plans on making OS X a musician friendly OS and I picked up a G5 for my studio. Looped with Augustus Loop in Ableton Live 5.0 on a G4 Powerbook for a while. Discovered Mobius in 2005, when it was Windows only, so I found a cheap XP lappy to run it and gave my EDP to a singer that seemed to go well with it. I built an XP host for Mobius in Bidule and used that for two years until Apple suddenly released Mainstage - which I found to be almost exaclty what I had been building in Bidule, but better sounding and compatible with Logic. So today I play gigs with Mobius AU in Mainstage. Normally only with one instrument and that can be either a guitar, a fretless guitar, an alto flute, an EWI or a tenor sax. In the future I will sometimes use a Chapman Stick and my hopes for the Stick is that it will help me to get away a bit from the restrictions of looping regarding rubato and floating tempo style playing.
Hope you like Mobius, I just love it! I started looping live back in the early eighties, on guitar and tenor sax, using simple digital delays, harmonizers and reel2reel tape machines. Heard about the Jamman but never found my own before it was discontinued by Lexicon. Heard about the EDP in -99 and picked one up, plus an Electrixpro Repeater (EDP master and Repeater sync slave - a great setup!). Realized I could not keep on using hardware that costs a fortune to travel with so I sold my Repeater to a friend that I thought would make great music with it and tried to dedicate a PC for running Linux in 2003 in order to loop with SooperLooper, but the PC's processor burned out. Oh well... then Apple released their plans on making OS X a musician friendly OS and I picked up a G5 for my studio. Looped with Augustus Loop in Ableton Live 5.0 on a G4 Powerbook for a while. Discovered Mobius in 2005, when it was Windows only, so I found a cheap XP lappy to run it and gave my EDP to a singer that seemed to go well with it. I built an XP host for Mobius in Bidule and used that for two years until Apple suddenly released Mainstage - which I found to be almost exaclty what I had been building in Bidule, but better sounding and compatible with Logic. So today I play gigs with Mobius AU in Mainstage. Normally only with one instrument and that can be either a guitar, a fretless guitar, an alto flute, an EWI or a tenor sax. In the future I will sometimes use a Chapman Stick and my hopes for the Stick is that it will help me to get away a bit from the restrictions of looping regarding rubato and floating tempo style playing.