There was a great meeting last night with a wonderful group of enthusiastic people, new and old. It was unusual in that we discussed zynthian all night! We focused almost entirely on looping, sepecifically the use of Sooperlooper in zynthian. Here are a few points that were recorded.
- I gave a demo of the core features and functionality of Sooperlooper. Some people learned some things from this which shows that even a bad teacher can impart useful knowledge!
- Much of Superlooper’s functionality is exposed in zynthian but some elements are restricted or hidden. The idea was to expose as much as is mostly useful and hide stuff that may confuse. There may be more things that could be exposed or hidden.
- There is a control to import a wav file to Sooperlooper. This did not work for me or someone else but was working for others. Reported on ticket 1588.
- Some users find the concept of looping overwealming or challenging to begin. It would be advantageous to have tutorials on how to start looping.
- @niels gave a demonstration of the APC25 control of Sooperlooper which gives a lot of control and monitoring. It includes some features that are not exposed in the zynthian GUI but works in tandem without (significant) issues.
- This forum thread describes much of the discussions of Sooperlooper integration with zynthian. We suggested using it to continue the discussion (yes) and to list info on tutorial requirements (no - see below).
- Suuperlooper is based on this hardware looper. Its info may benefit those wanting to understand why Sooperlooper works as it does.
- It was agreed that the community would benefit from short, targeted tutorials. These could be written and/or video.
- Zynthian’s workflow recorder is an excellent tool for this, allowing quick and simple recording of zynthian screen, hardware (encoder & switch) actions, sound and (post-recording) subtitling. There is a video tutorial on how to use this.
- There is a forum topic discussing Sooperlooper tutorials. Please add any requests for tutorials here. Please flag if you are creating one (to avoid duplicated effort.)
- Some very short tutorials (learning pills) targetted as very specific elements may be beneficial which allow for bite-sized learning. (We do live in the Tik-Tock age of short attention span!) These can include:
- What you can do with looping (although we shouldn’t spend too much time repeating the hundreds of other tutorials available.
- How to get started.
- How to do various workflows (separate pill for each).
- More advanced topics.
I recorded the first 20 mins (attached below) but disconnected to fix some technical connection issues and didn’t restart the recording so the recording is truncated.
Maybe the next zynthclub will be as disorganised and unfocused as previous ones.