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Well, I just tried in standalone on an iPad, selected the looper preset and mine crashed too. I’ll pass it on to Kai tomorrow. Obviously an issue here.
Haha, the joys of ios music making, lol. I'm considering buying a hardware looper for just this very kind of reason.
Or maybe is finally time to give group the loop a try. Or just go back to loopy. It was always solid from what I remember though I haven't used it in a long time. And maybe finally the new loopy will be everything we have been dreaming of with rock solid stability to boot.
I tried to make a lofi one with a bit of spiced cassette in a handheld cassette recorder. It was fun but I like the RE-1 emulation via standalone on iPhone better.
I just tried RE-1 again with other presets and it worked fine. Might just be that the looper preset is corrupted
I sent it to him about a month and a half ago and haven’t heard anything. Included the fact that I get crazy weird artifacts.
It also worked for me after a few tries. But that's not really good enough, is it.... So these are the kind of reasons why I was recommending enso + kd7, some have complained of enso's reliability too though...
Yeah, he’s been a little out of pocket lately. Maybe because of the new baby 👶;) but also he’s got a couple new ones he’s been working on. One may drop in about a week. Drop him another note... he seems to be active again.
Wait.... there is a looper preset?
Oh yeah crashed mine too. Never saw that. But the looper is working wonderfully. Enable overdub, 4BARs and jam. Add tape characteristics add hiss saturation and stuff... just did it 👊🏼🙃
I have, thank you.
I can confirm stand alone crash with the mentioned preset. I tend to use it as an AU effect - I'm obsessed with delays.
Buttons and sliders respond better than last time. There's still a difference in how they respond. Delay time button needs more movement than any of the others. Sure, it gives also a little bit more of precision but I don't know if it's intended (or desired? it is bit inconsistent?). Output slider will jump if you put your finger away from the knob (ie. the path it follows) and move it. Last time I checked it would jump any time I tried to manipulate it.
No big complain here, just stating. I don't use it that much anyway.
I can’t get it to work in NS2 on iPhone at all.
Not only can you not turn any controls as the UI just moves about instead but there’s no sound either.
I did get it working in NS2 on iPad. I copied the project to the iPhone and still nothing. It’s totally silent.
iPhone 11. Latest NS2, re-1 and up to date iOS.
@ka010
UPDATE: Deleting and reinstalling the plug in seems to have got the audio back (nothing else I tried including removing and re-adding the plug in in the project or multiple iPhone restarts worked).
But you still can’t control anything properly without the UI moving about instead.
Any particular reason for using it as a standalone or IAA? It works great (for me) as an AU.
While RE-1 mentions being a looper, I don't really consider it for that use. It's really more like a tape machine that you can use as a tape echo and periodically turn off the erase head to build up sound-on-sound.
The best feature, for me, is that it is your recorded tape continues for several minutes. Even when you're just using it like a tape echo, it's not like a physical tape echo with a closed loop of tape, it's more like a bunch of reel-to-reels that are spooling a full reel of tape. So, if you have it going for several minutes as a simple tape echo and then hit "Reverse" it will play back (in reverse) the last few minutes. I use this in live jams all the time (but them I'm partial to reverse sounds ; ) This functionality is unique to RE-1.
Here's an example - immediately before I switch to Shoom, I reverse RE-1 (by pressing the Main Parameter Button assigned to Reverse on the AUM screen). Then, while I'm in Shoom, RE-1 is continuing to play back everything I was just doing (or at least what I had routed to RE-1):
I love Enso and use it extensively (though not as much as RE-1) and for me I have had far more crashes with Enso than I have had with RE-1. But, obviously YMMV!
wooo that video is excellent. had a very Nine inch nails vibe toward the end. very cool
It's weird, I can't get my iPad to crash at all. I got my iPhone to crash selecting that preset, and then it started crashing when I simply pressed the Browse button(!) ...and now, after testing this for a bit, I can't get my iPhone to crash at all.
As @david_2017 mentions, "Looper" mode is simply turning on "Overdub" so you don't need to use the Presets, but there's clearly something wrong.
Based on comments and my anecdotal testing, it seems issues with the iPhone version are more prevalent - that and some serious issues with NS2, but I can't test that.
Pretty sure it's intended. When you have Time Stretch enabled, changing Delay time causes a pitch shift; by allowing very small changes you can get nice warbles and choruses and not the big pitch swoops you hear on every "tape delay"
Hmmm, I'm not seeing that; I can move my finger to the other side of the plugin and it's still smoothly tracking. But there's definitely some funkiness with the UI when resizing the AU window.
Anyway, as I mentioned in my previous post, RE-1 has a unique tape recorder paradigm that allows some unique behaviors that I can't live without. Hopefully the issues get resolved!
@aplourde very nice track!
Hey everyone,
seems like I'm no longer getting email notifications for mentions here, not sure why but thanks to @skiphunt and @david_2017 for letting me know.
So, I've just looked into the "Looper" Patch crash, it's an easy fix. I'll have a an update ready soon, in the meantime I'm happy to provide a beta version to anyone eager for a fix. That said, not using the factory patch and just enabling the looper manually should still work without issues.
I'll be taking a look at issues with NS2 next.
I had sent an email a while ago. I’m also getting random artifacts in AUM with the loop functionality.
Can you describe what kind of artefacts you're getting, maybe provide a sample? Does it happen on iPhone only or on iPad as well?
Yes, it works great as AU.. but the reason I mentioned standalone... is that on the iPhone if you're just using to emulate a portable cassette looper, the interface is just the right size at full screen and a blast to play with in the field.
The way the time control and sliders respond is intentional, personally I prefer it that way but it seems that's just me, so I changed it now, changes will be included with the next update.
Holy shit, so I just realised this is auv3. When I search in AUM by name, it only appears as iia. When I search by developer name I see the AU. I just realised it is because they are named slightly differently. The AU is RE1. The IIA is RE-1. That's annoying, I have barely used this because I only thought it was IAA and that doesn't fit my work flow well. Excited though to start using this more!
I’ll do some testing today.
Got it - but I inferred that @Gavinski didn't realize that it was an AU; wanted to clear up any misconception!
I actually like the time control being high resolution. As I mentioned above it allows subtle warbles and chorusing when adjusting instead of the typical exaggerated pitch swoop that you get with every other "tape delay".
I’d love it if you could scratch with it, keep naturally just trying it out 🤣
Yeah I agree - it would be nice to have a choice @ka010
Great, thanks!
Oh, that's unfortunate, I never noticed but thanks for pointing it out.
Could be interesting, maybe for the next major update
Alright so I added an option to dial in the sensitivity along with one for setting the sensitivity of the touch reel warping feature. Both will be included with the upcoming update.
Nice one Kai
@ka010 Another one.
The Tape Loop Export window in the full-screen AUv3 is cut off on the side. Samples cannot be saved, unless the window is resized to slightly smaller, but this doesn't always work.
Well I didn’t get artifacts this time so never mind.
Thanks, fixed it.
OK, if it does happen again please let me know.