Zynthian as a loop station synth

[Joe]

Pure Data could do all of this and be device-independent inside Zynthian. I did something like this for SooperLooper:

A Pure Data patch to control SooperLooper with one pedal

My MIDI foot pedal only has four switches, so I made a patch in Pure Data to make one switch act like a typical single-pedal hardware looper. With this patch, a single press of the pedal starts the recording, then a second press triggers and sets overdub on, then successive presses toggle between overdub on and off. A double press pauses, then the next press triggers the loop to play again. A triple press erases the loop and resets so the next press records again. This might also be a good temp…

But I don’t use that anymore since the developers added single pedal mode. Where I got stuck was trying to use Pure Data as a sort of all-purpose MIDI router. The Pure Data chain/channel can’t accept all MIDI channels and it can’t send MIDI back out to the main router, so it can only send MIDI notes directly to other chains. If it could send data back to the router, you could, for instance, set up a cycle where each press of the same pedal starts a different Zynpad while also toggling between playing and recording a loop in SooperLooper. I added a feature request for this:

Add support for all MIDI channels (omni) input in Pure Data & routing output back to Zynthian MIDI router