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I think you can use another midi fx app like Cality and add the probabilty effect to LoopBud.
Does Cality work after loopbud? Like a filter rather than a sender?
Rad Cem. Midi effects. Havent bought Cality but will see if I need more midi effects than transpose and chance
I let this pass while waiting for Atom2 and now read that MPE may be in the works? Is that really so, @cem_olcay ?
And another question: are the notes arranged from bottom to top (lower to higher)? I ask because I've seen different layouts in LoopBud's webpage http://keybudapp.com/loopbud
Cem. Can you make the mode switch a midi parameter? Possibly to work with an led on controller so it indicates on/off.
Thanks
How would loopbud sound if it could loop and stop recording + overwrite. If app could stop recording from where it started recording?
I use the line + the mode toggle to be visible. So I can see the loop position plus switch modes. With the above it would need a stationary coloured marker, which then launches the white line.
Lets say you Euclidean drum and insist on making patterns live ( even if it sounded bad ) Does the way loopbud work at the mo hinder this? Even if you just use loopbud for basses. I guess it just means you lose some bar input. Will have to check again.
I see, @cem_olcay, that you’re busy releasing another interesting app which I’m sure I’ll get because I enjoy all (or most) of them.
But I’ve been using LoopBud lately and here are some, what I think, may be minor tweaks that could make some important improvements.
• Can you make it so that it waits to record until getting the first midi note message? I find that as it is, I can’t get a loop to begin at the beginning where it would be most useful. The timing is always off or delayed. Or at least an option for this.
• How about a mode where once it’s recorded through all of the bars it automatically stops recording. (I see that @sigma79 has already mentioned this so I'm not alone).
I’m often frustrated when either it erases what I’ve already done or begins adding notes to what I’ve done. Those modes may have their place but not always.
• I like the ability to loop on individual bars and I can see that it’s supposed to be able to switch playing these bars using midi CC commands but I can’t get that to work. It so far hasn’t responded to any CC message I send it.
So, I hope you will consider these ideas. It would be greatly appreciated.
Hey everyone, I just released a new update for LoopBud, v1.7
I was using an old library which wasn't compatible with the current Xcode so I ended up writing the AUv3 part from scratch.
I updated the UI colors and updated the AU parameters, now everything is controllable with AU params.
Please let me know if you have any issues!
Awesome, just updated yesterday or today can’t remember I’ll give it a go soon. Thanks.
I appreciate the updates but I'm going to suggest a couple things again:
I know that it’s supposed to be a very bare-bones midi looper which I agree can be a useful thing, but …
I wish it had a mode where it waits for the first note event to begin recording. That would help keep clips aligned or synched better.
Also, I think it would be very helpful if there was a mode where the recording would automatically stop after x amount of measures. That way you wouldn’t accidentally erase a take or start recording over it.
Now, come to think of it, I have another idea: How about a mode where once it recorded x measures for a scene it would automatically keep recording on a new scene, etc. then, on and on until there were no scenes left or you stopped. ?
I don’t think these ideas would make it any more complex of a looper but it could be very helpful for spontaneous ideas.
@Stochastically thanks for the suggestions, I recently updated LoopBud and I can work on the new features. I’ll keep them in my mind 👍
Thanks for considering this! I think It could be useful for capturing snippets from various other 'buds'.
Helium can currently achieve all of your feature requests. Also, Cem’s apps play nicely with helium, just as long as you keep quantize off inside Helium.
That's true, Sir Blipsford, and I have Helium and it works really well. But I've started playing with LoopBud and found that I liked experimenting with it for some quick, off the cuff kinds of things. I found it's bare bones approach worked for me in some situations. Especially multiple instances juggled around. That's why I thought maybe if it was just tweaked a bit it could be even more useful.
Cem, if at all possible, could you add an option to disable midi thru? So LoopBud only outputs recorded midi?
Use case: looping hardware synths that don’t have the ability to disable local control. Without this, the initial playing gets doubled and sound bad as latency in DAW rises.
Thanks for considering this.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loopbud-auv3-midi-recorder/id1554773709
Hey @cem_olcay - I was hoping to recommend LoopBud to someone just now but it failed a simple test. I set up Rozeta Bassline to send to LoopBud in AUM, then LoopBud to send to Troublemaker. Playing Bassline through LoopBud while not recording worked fine, so the routing was all OK.
I then armed record and started AUM transport. Only a few notes of the Bassline sequence were recorded. I did this many times over to test. There were one or two times I got a fairly complete recording, but most times only two notes of the sequence (D3 and D1) were recorded.
I found that the two notes that were recorded had "ties" in Rozeta, meaning that their note lengths overlapped the next note. It seems that regular notes in Bassline are to short to qualify to get recorded in LoopBud.
I hope you can fix that. LoopBud is a nice, uncomplicated solution for something that many beginners need, but I can't recommend it with an issue like that.
Hey, just did a quick test and haven’t got the same problem. Is your setup look like this? 👇
@cem_olcay - yes, it looks exactly like that.
This is really weird. For me the only notes that will record are ones that have a tie to the next sequencer step. 100% reproducible.
@cem_olcay - I replaced LoopBud with Atom2 and all notes record, so it's not routing or Bassline acting weird. 🤷🏼♂️
@cem_olcay - I tried the same setup in Loopy Pro and Loop Bud recorded fine. Set up again from scratch in AUM and it still will only record notes with ties.
@cem_olcay - I found it.
Somehow I had set buffers to 2048 frames in AUM and forgot about it. Changing buffers to below 2048 frames cleared the problem up. That's a bug, though not one that many people would stumble across.