I finally got things setup so I have a second microphone conveniently placed for vocal looping purposes. Can anyone explain to me how they work vocal loops in on their Zynthian? I am running a standard Zynthian 5.1, and I have been doing some very rough loops, but they’ve all consisted of sequenced/MIDI things. I have found it somewhat confusing when adding audio chains, how it would work into all of this….or am I forced to use SooperLooper, in stead of ZynPad at that point? Or the two working together. My brain starts to explode when I start thinking about it. Any help is appreciated.
I did some experimenting on Vangelis with SooperLooper as the recorder - to keep it in time with the clock, and then using the cliplauncher for firing the loops (together with midi sequences). Somewhere on this forum there is a description of the complicated recipe - which i can not find right now.
But down the road the record functionality in the clip launcher is announced to be possible to sync to clock, and thus one should be able to do it all with the launcher and a mix of midi-chains and clip launchers. Both live and pre-recorded of course!
I am sort of sitting on the fence awaiting the sync-to-clock-record functionality in ClipLauncher instead of fiddling with SooperLooper which i have come to dislike because it makes me confused and such. And because i really think that my future in looping consist of a mix of looping midi patterns and recorded audio. But, i am also a novice and not at all sure that my ideas are good/right etc
Ok. I think that I probably read at least some of that discussion, and I am in the same boat. I agree that SooperLooper tends to confuse me, and unless I am missing something, it is just less-tightly-integrated into the Zynthian’s interface. Thank you for confirming the general state of things. While I would love to get moving down the looping track, I can probably stand to be patient for a while.
But i do not know for sure that the clippy functionality will be live looper friendly. I know that it has been said that we have SooperLooper for looping, sort of indicating that the Zynseq, Launcher Clippychain trinity will not deliver the same looping feel. But the way i see it is that as soon there is timed recording/overdub in clippy (timed to pattern/bar/beat/xsteps) one could develop a workflow that is quite close to what a multitrack looper pedal does, plus all the benefits of midi-looping (patterns) and the Launcher phrase/pad structure to organize much more intricate systems than a multitrack looper. But i must admit that this is my fantasies and based on very little real life looping
We have not committed to loop recording within clippy. Indeed, we have said that SooperLooper (which is very integrated) is the looper solution in zynthian.
You can sync lock SooperLooper to zynthian sequencer and clippy is also locked, so the building blocks are there. You can loop record audio in SooperLooper. You can loop record & play MIDI in zynseq. You can loop play audio in clippy.
If someone writes a user workflow proposal that is not yet practical, we can consider implementing it.
Thank you. I did see this feature, but how can I “send” this information to the sequencer? That’s the missing link for me. I’m using Oram. Maybe it’s only a feature in Vangelis?
