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Looper recommendations
My February budget is soon to land next was thinking about loopers. So recommendations?
- Enso17 votes
- Gauss41.18%
- Other58.82%
Comments
It all depends on what you want to do. Gauss is great for ambient stuff that somewhat strays from a rigid beat. If you are looking for something to play along with or play live I think I'd go a more traditional route like Loopy HD or Quantiloop that is quantized to the beat/measure.
More ambient and not live (I play solo fingerstyle guitar live, at least I do when we are not in lockdown). This is more for goofing about with iPad/electronic music
Get Enso. Or at least watch the tutorial by Audio Damage. They also offer a manual.
Gauss has the genius of @brambos for features and stability combined with the musical creativity of Heinbach. It's a lot like the (also worth considering) Kosmonaut.
Enso has a reverse feature that makes it unique but it becomes unstable with large loops.
Anyone with the funds should have all 3.
With AUv3 you can also have a lot of each until your CPU gives out. When that happens you record a loop of the current output and deleted everything except that one Looper and keep adding or mixing in new materials. You can go for hours evolving and record the whole session to revisit later and realize you have no idea how you made this magic happen.
It really depends on what you mean by "looper". Do you want to multiple co-ordinated loops -- i.e. record a loop and have it start playing then record a new loop to go with it to build up a multitrack accompaniment or do want multiple independent loops -- as if you had a bunch of different tape recorders running independently?
Get both Enso and Gauss.
FWIW Enso has zero issues with the newer devices but will likely be problematic on older devices.
Gauss is a very odd and unique looper. Its amazing for any ambient and frippertronics as well as some normal loops with low fi vibe. The sync feature makes it a more normal looper and well that and either loopy, quantichord looper ? or living memory's boomerang style looper. Enso has great stuff but I just haven't gotten to make out with it as Id like. It stays in sync like a mo fo tho so there are tons of loop options. Fluxy for goofy looper. Loopy HD, I am spacing out.
I haven’t used the others but Guitar + Gauss = Wonderful (every time).
I picked up Gauss the other day for a specific guitar based performance task but alas is perfect for running on a parallel channel (yet?) as monitoring of the direct signal is always active while record is enabled (so input monitoring can't be disabled for sound on sound looping where record is active constantly). Have emailed Bram and he replied asking for more information very quickly so hoping that a 'disable monitoring while recording' toggle will appear at some point before I have to make a switcheroo to Enso.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the tape style sequencer of Gauss and it's by far the most immediately musical and greatest performance feature of any looper that I've ever played EVER. Absolutely killer feature for me that I never knew I needed in my life.
Unless I’m misunderstanding, input monitoring can absolutely be enabled or disabled at any point, while recording, or not. The Overdub feature works the same; can be enabled or disabled at any point.
Am I missing something here?
In my exploration, when monitoring is off if I activate the 'record' function then the live input comes back (making a weird effect as the return channel's latency combines with the original direct channel). I thought the same as you and keep tricking myself into believing that I'm doing something wrong then checking again. I'll check it again later ..