It’s been awhile updating my looper project, mostly because I have been busy learning MAX.
The looper project has reached the design stage. Building the looper by following the YouTube video’s by dearjohnread is done and now I have a functioning looper patch.
Now it’s time to start designing my own looper. In my Eurorack system I have an Expert-Sleepers ES-9 with a few audio inputs. 16 to be exact, now keeping track of 16 loops is a bit much whether it is in a live set or a jamming session. The start will be 4 tracks, inspired by the old 4 track recorders. I can always expand later.
The 4 tracks need to controllable by a midi controller, these functions must be available:
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- Start and stop recordings
- Start and stop playing the recorded loops
- Mute and unmute of the loops
This will be the basic controller wise. Besides the loops I have several ideas for applying effects , like stutter, reverb distortion and whatever else comes to mind.
Functions need to be :
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- Effects per loop channel
- Add & Delete
- Turn on & Off
- Building effect chains per channel
These functions also need to be controllable via a midi controller. I own an old Push 1 , which should be enough. I will start with that and make it customizable later on.
This is the basic concept for the design, I will post the more expanded design notes on my GitHub. Here I will go into the whole learning process.