The Best Live Looper system an Artist can get.... A Hard-Soft perspective

Let say there’s a ton of Loopers and ways to use Hardware loopers and Software loopers.
Live loopers DubFx style, like guitar players, then loopy Ipad software, Ableton,
Or Eurorack DIY modules, Bastle Microgranny Sampler, Volca Sample, which now has USB sample loading… whilst bot PO33 and Roland J6 has an actual Input , except its a messy TRRS headset jack on the OUT jack that do the recording instead the MIX in is just a useless … MIX IN… god knows what they ate that morning… but they also created the digital TB-303… what else we need to say about those guys…

ANYWAY… I want to add as many live SAMPLERS loopers as possible here.
Hardware or Software… It can also be a PlugData Abstraction that do beat detection and
set the BPM to the detected Beat, has a looper, and maybe Midi clock…

Then we can dream and talk about this or that and see how it works and if it can be done with Zynthian… the End goal is that… could this or that be replicated in Zyinthian?
Yes - No - How about— etc—

Free links everybody to anything releated and un-related.
No restrictions. Even pirated software from the 80s in 32 bit
like an unkwown sampler in Reaktor 1.2 beta…
Anything that can be used in a creative workflow by an Artist.
Anything that doesn’t come with a fkn Telepathy recording mode…

Microphones are cool, so are BIG JACKS!!

Also the Old Korg Electribe Sampler was a nice start…

IN the context of Beat detection loopers and Dubfx loopy on the IPad, here is a video about it.

Wtf is Koala??

Ios11 Samplers soft top5 by Jacob Haq (Cool Dude, shared some nice DIY Drum kits for the PO32

Also, PlugData (and Cardinal various Drummachine -samplers) Drum.machine, use samples… this is as good as it gets for Beat snapping Samples… I would LOVE to get to see and use PlugData
interface in Zynthian… how could this be done???
It can be done using Patchbox OS or just base Raspberry OS, loading PlugData… but Zynthian???

And of course… Zynthian… Althought I have no idea how get anywhere near what B_A_T is doing in this video…

Sooperlooper

Ya, we need to share stuff… do you have any patch to share???
5 patches only for Zynthian is ridiculous…
We need to share stuff…

I have live looped with Ableton Live and ClyphX scripting.
My specific goal was scripted looping with backing tracks, and a flexible performance path.
I didn’t want anything to be controlled by accurate timing of pedal presses, because I am not that co-ordinated. I was able to choose what option to trigger next at the end of the current scene at any time before playback reached the end. That included looping the scene, overdubbing or replacing a section, or jumping to a different section of the song.

This (really historic) recording just had drums and bass for the backing - everything else was recorded live. For some reason the audio de-syncs from the video at the end, but it was live and one pass.

I really hope the new Zynbleton lets me revisit this with Sooperlooper or similar - way more portable than a laptop in a hard-case.

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