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Maybe a another automatable parameter could be added that is a coarse speed control. That would leave current operation unimpacted and make it possible to send a value that would force the speed to values like in 0.25 increments? That might be coarse enough to reliably land at predictable coarse values.
Personally, it seems more useful and easily-understood to make the "snap" feature work consistently with all changes to speed, from any source, whenever it's enabled. Or maybe there are complications to that approach that I can't think through?
I like your idea, better than the one I just posted.
@celtic_elk I like your idea too.
Any kind of snapping would impact the current granularity and smoothness which is pretty nice. I actually like being able to be at those nice in-betweeny values you would lose...since snapping would necessarily reduce the values you can currently achieve.
Yes, I'm doing something like that now. Just testing it as I type this.
I'm adding a parameter named "TAPESPEED (INDEXED)", which will change the speed only to indexed values: -2x, -1x, -1/2x, -1/4x, -1/8x, PAUSE, 1/8x, 1/4x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x
I'm distributing those indices evenly over the range, to make it easy to select them.
Ditto.
FYI, same thing with Enso.
Wow!!!!! This is amazing! Subscribed! Love the use of all instruments, especially Kantele. 😁
Ok, I have a Snap-Speed parameter working. Now testing...
So this is a separate parameter, which you can assign to your MIDI controller if you like to always snap to nice speed divisions. The regular continuous tape-speed parameter is still available unchanged.
Oh great, that's handy
like!
Thanks Bram!
Thanks. Do you have a tip jar??? @brambos or are you just a simple man making his way through the galaxy like your father before you? 😀
Nailed it. BramBossMode.
Is there a way to punch in? I’ve been having a blast with really long loop lengths (as if I wound the tape reel around a chair in the dining room). I’d like to be able to insert a bit of a recording destructively (just like a tape machine) but can’t sort out a way to do it. Feel like I’m just missing it though?
No sleep. Bad influence. This is a good app. Might be able to add some turntable stuff with this looper but wish mixer was maybe better and pnp2 fader worked. Dont even use deck at all. Are you able to add midi via knob for the sequencer modes. Left off. Middle trigger. Right loop. Would be better ( if pos ) than 3 buttons. Hopefully can use app via all midi as good as screen. Not sure if you need screen to see loop or not but seems easier to make good stuff, with all the functions.
syrup, yeah you mean like punch in an overdub? OR punch in and erase the previous audio ? I am totally a new learner, but a long time looper so maybe I can help?
but looks like the almighty bram is here.
Side note. I love the rhythmic thing when in trig mode! I have no idea how it chops a dumb lil loop into an IDM beat proper. What is that magic, I mean I see the note value and times but Im like so boggled haha. Am I the only one. I mean this can be a syrup drum machine unknown to most, weird. Cheers
Not sure if discussed but abe link could be cool just to start but obviously with manual restart option already in app.
Midi knob for off trig and loop ( maybe designed around an aum virtual knob thing ) like snap speed in your video. It could be designed so that middle position has more of a range from left to right then left and right ( off and loop ) any discrepencies on different midi controllers ( if thats the case ) wont be so bad, as you know left and right will definatley switch left and right. Leaving a middle area for trig.
Nuva request thanks.
The marker thing that ( the main moving marker ) be bright green or red as it isnt that visible and I can resize app in background but still see the the actual looper bar. It might just be better with a brighter, clearer marker but its not mega essential. Would just be better more visible ( only if its an app where you think you need to see marker ) and you arnt always looking at ipad. Just better to spot quicker.
requests are based around midi control of app ( so will get back to you )
Thanks.
tbh abe link might not be essential if im seeing looper bar now and maybe there are some settings were maximum turn on a midi controller and a setting in app would correspond to bars on another sequencer ( even if theres more bars )
I mean punch in and erase/replace. Just like a physical tape machine/loop would work. Hopefully without the record engage blip noise my akai r2r used to add.
It doesn’t actually chop. Instead, it changes the playback speed at each step. You set the rhythm of the changes with the trig knobs and the amount of each change with the step knobs. Recording a single held note into the looper and then experimenting with the sequencer settings is probably the easiest way to hear what it’s doing. It is magic though!
A related feature dream: larger possible values for the the trigs like 2,4 and 8 bars.
It doesn't have to change the playback speed at each step mind you. The pitch changes are optional. The main thing giving the rhythmic quality is the envelopes applied to the audio at points selected by changing the time values. Short attack and decay = more rhythmic. Is it magical though, definitely!
+1 for this idea definitely!
@brambos is “tape editing” a thing on the potential horizon? I don’t mean full on wave editing. I’m thinking of the sorts of primitive (and destructive) edits one can do with a physical tape loop, a splicing block, a razor blade and a bit of luck/chutzpah.
Specifically, I find myself wanting to insert/cut silence before and after a recorded loop in order to adjust the frequency at which it repeats relative to other loops in the project. For long ambient style stuff.
The first track on Eno’s Music for Airports is probably a good example. He took bits from longer free form recordings and put them on tape loops with arbitrary blank tape on either side of each. Then, he edited each tape loop by either adding more blank tape or cutting blank tape to set how often each musical bit occurred.
You can kind of do this by changing the loop length after you have recorded, no? Though it it not letting you in this case choose whether the space comes before or after.
Would it work just to snap to the values if the parameter is within a certain percentage of the value (only if snap is enabled in the interface, of course)? I mean, that’s what’s happening with the touch position already, isn’t it?
No need to answer, I’m probably over-simplifying the problem.
Thanks for doing it this way. I am super glad you didn't snap near values when using the already existing parameter - because it is super cool to set up the parameter range in AUM so that the MIDI range 0-127 is being used to cover a small range in Gauss. I've got a bunch of Gauss's running and making minute changes and really glad that no snapping happens.
That AUM range parameter is so great in cases like this.
If the Snap-Speed parameter is the final coat of polish, I'll be very happy with Gauss. At some point, Bram deserves to relax and enjoy the holidays. I'm not trying to criticize anyone for requesting new features; I'm just saying, if he changed his design philosophy to be less minimalistic, we wouldn't have 14 different Bram Bos apps. Gauss already has more bells and whistles, and less unused screen space, than any of his other apps.
+1
Though I’m one of the requesters, I agree with this one hundred percent. It’s why I first asked if tape editing was even on the horizon. “Nope” is a totally reasonable answer as far as I’m concerned.