Am I the last person to discover this quick hack for Blocs Wave?

Svetlovska

I just realised that in a quiet space you can resample and loop an existing arrangement of your own imported loops or sound packs back into Blocs Wave by enabling its recording function and recording the playback into a spare slot. I assume the iPad mic is recording the iPad speakers rather than going direct in the digital domain, but for the grungy Lo fi sounds I like it works just fine. Once the new loop is back in Blocs Wave you can then screw around with the eq and the loop points... great stuff!

rs2000

No, that's actually a cool idea.

Version 2: Let's build a little "resampling cabinet" out of an old shitty loudspeaker and a microphone, working like a headset connected to the wired headphones jack.

seonnthaproducer

What I do is send the Section Mix back into Blocs Wave.

But yeah, the microphone works as well. It’s also really useful in capturing sounds quickly.

espiegel123

@seonnthaproducer said:
What I do is send the Section Mix back into Blocs Wave.

But yeah, the microphone works as well. It’s also really useful in capturing sounds quickly.

+1 on sending the section mix back to BlocsWave (requires the mix to be saved to Files then imported with import).

JohnnyGoodyear

@espiegel123 said:

@seonnthaproducer said:
What I do is send the Section Mix back into Blocs Wave.

But yeah, the microphone works as well. It’s also really useful in capturing sounds quickly.

+1 on sending the section mix back to BlocsWave (requires the mix to be saved to Files then imported with import).

Is this purely to save track space?

Svetlovska

@JohnnyGoodyear : my original comment about the quick n dirty audio recording was just that - it’s very immediate, and lets me build different arrangements of loops (of loops) staying on the same screen, with the same section, and without having to bop backwards and forwards so much, and, er, ‘flow’, or something... It would have been even better if Blocs Wave had an identical layout to Launchpad, so instead of working on just one ‘row’ at a time, you could work up down or across rows a la Ableton clip launching. Even better if a long press on a clip would let you drag and drop it to a new location on this new grid. But then, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride...

JohnnyGoodyear

@Svetlovska said:
@JohnnyGoodyear : my original comment about the quick n dirty audio recording was just that - it’s very immediate, and lets me build different arrangements of loops (of loops) staying on the same screen, with the same section, and without having to bop backwards and forwards so much, and, er, ‘flow’, or something... It would have been even better if Blocs Wave had an identical layout to Launchpad, so instead of working on just one ‘row’ at a time, you could work up down or across rows a la Ableton clip launching. Even better if a long press on a clip would let you drag and drop it to a new location on this new grid. But then, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride...

I see. Very good. Thank you. And, we are beggars after all

Svetlovska

@rs2000 : funny you should say that. The first ever noise I recorded, at the tender age of 16 (42 years ago ! ) was a reel to reel tape loop of me and a few friends chanting nonsense words, played back on a speaker we put into a steel bucket, with a cheap mic in the same bucket re-recording it as a kind of bathroom reverb effect. We used it as a backing track for harmonics being played on a cello, by the only kid in our group who actually had an instrument, and the skill to play it. Ah, great days Kind of sobering to realise that in the intervening 4 decades I haven’t really progressed much from that point...

Paul16

espiegel123

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@espiegel123 said:

@seonnthaproducer said:
What I do is send the Section Mix back into Blocs Wave.

But yeah, the microphone works as well. It’s also really useful in capturing sounds quickly.

+1 on sending the section mix back to BlocsWave (requires the mix to be saved to Files then imported with import).

Is this purely to save track space?

For me it is useful when I am building something out of parts but intend to use them as a single loop/groove that I plan to use elsewhere where I don't need control over the individual elements -- or if I am tinkering and need more slots. For example, I have been exploring horn arranging -- and recording individual parts -- but after having double or triple tracked a trumpet or trombone part -- I want to collapse those into one file.