It would be very nice to have a looper with the quantize option (with metronome like on EHX or Boss type loopers), and four track one would be a cherry on the top Any plans/ideas/projects of it?
The audio recorder is great now, but without a click track it is more like for just improv recording.
FWIW, I’m running the included SooperLooper LV2 plugin, remote-controlling it with a home-built Pedalino over WIFI (rdp-MIDI).
Latency seems to be alright, unfortunately the LV2 plugin’s development seems to have seized, meaning a fix for the “click” between loop points still isn’t merged. If I get around to it, I may take a look at refreshing that PR.
Edit: This one is pretty fun, with some caveats. Easy to compile!
Edit2:
Caveat 1 is you need the a jack clocksource and the jack transport rolling to get it to work. In practice this just means nipping in the Zyn Sequencer, clearing a pattern, setting the tempo and hitting play.
Caveat 2 is Zynthian doesn’t seem to want to connect the MIDI in, and if you do it manually, then the screen controls stop working and the plugin doesn’t like midi in anyway.
I did record a loop but jack_record always hates me and this time it added massive unnecessary distortion which wasn’t audible on the live out to the recording. Thanks jack_record you massive bellend.
I just tested the install script from @Baggypants and it works OK, so i added the recipe to the repo. Those of you wanting to test the ALO looper, simply follow these steps from the console:
This did not work 100% right away for me like this (I’m on rc2 image).
It seems that /usr/local/lib/lv2 is not in the path where the lv2 plugins are searched for.
To get it working, after the install script I had to create a symlink:
cd /zynthian/zynthian-plugins/lv2
ln -s /usr/local/lib/lv2/alo.lv2
Only then, did the ALO plugin show up in the webconfig and I could enable it there.
Comparing with other install scripts, it would be probably be a good idea to create this symlink at the end of the script (or widen the search path for lv2 plugins to include /usr/local/lib/lv2).
Edit: I tested it and after starting the transport it does work.
BUT, I won’t be using it for the sole reason that it’s mono only, and this should not be a restriction introduced by a looper or any recording device imho.
Is there a chance to have stereo looper and/or midi looper in near future ? As far as I know, soopelooper can support stereo in original version, not sure about LV2 version. I am sure, lot’s of zynthianers here hold their fingers and hope (or pray) for a miracle - full capacity loopers on our zynthians.
Being serious, what holds us from implementing midish or stereo audio looper capabilities ?
Are there any serious problems with any of them ?
Thanks a lot and it’s really working in stereo ! That is definitely a great start for all of us here !
One thing I can’t figure out yet - after some time the loop stops playing on it’s own and then the click comes back. Does it somehow depends on the length of the pattern in StepSeq ?
I had to create a symlink as @twelve kindly suggested - only then the ALO LV2 was among the other plugins.
I’venever had that happen other than when I stop all the loops. There is a built in way of stopping and starting loops witha lower octave of notes, It might be that.
Yes, thank you @Baggypants, ALO is certainly a very useful stereo looper now!
I really appreciate the fact that you can easily have 6 loops per instance and get a built in metronome!