There was a Synthclub yesterday of which i’m sure there will be a recount on the Synthclub thread.
Here is a follow up in regards to SooperLooper:
Short video learning pills are to be made.
There was a sort of agreement(?) that one could consider 4 paths in SL to go down:
- Start with recording a loop, the old school looper operator (you) precision in regards to timing the record on/off skill is needed
- Start with a pre-made drum loop (wav) on loop 1 and use that for timing base (“sync to” LOOP1)
- Start with a sequence (could be empty) or metronome and record your first loop (“sync to” HOST), after that do as in number 2
- Keep “sync to” HOST during the whole looping process (“playback sync” ON). This keeps you in time with ZynClock and you can run MIDI patterns (or CLIPPY chains) in your synseq together with your loops
It is my opinion that focus should be on number 2 and 3 for the start of this tutorial process. Number one is sort of old school and difficult to master and number 4 is complex and does perhaps not represent a very common user scenario.
There are a couple of questions that turns up in my head:
- Where to put the SL processor? I now put it on it’s own mixbus chain and chooses which other chain(s) that outputs to the SL chain. Others like it on the main chain
- This question is interlaced with #1 i think: Are you a(n) mutitimbral or active chain kind of person, and (how) does this make a difference
- I’m on Vangelis - that could be a thing. But at some time everyone will be there i guess.
I would like to try and make 2-3 videos that starts down path 3 mentioned above (that is the path i’m most familiar with), SL on a mixbus chain, 2 instrument chains, one audio chain, four loops total.
- setting up the mixbus chain and recording the “beat loop” - with some overdubbing
- adding three more loops
- showing some of the the most basic functionalities (unsure about exactly what)
I might find the time for the first vid today but i doubt it (then maybe next week). If anyone has anything to add, offer, comment, disagree on or whatever, you are very welcome!