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AUM Recording Perfect Loop Plus Silence to Catch Reverb and Delay Tails
Hi,
First post here. I see one can record perfect loops in AUM by clicking stop before the Quantum Sync point. But these perfect loops still would cut off any delay or reverb tails at the end. So if you have a synth going with a delay or reverb, if you take that perfect loop and loop it up in a DAW the delay tail (that would have overlapped from the previous measure while playing the software live) will vanish at the start of each new repetition of the loop.
So my question is - Is there a way around this? Sort of a way to tell AUM to record 4 bars and then stop playing, but continue to record until another 4 bars, or until the delay and reverb tails and any other sound ends? I know one could do this by just having a 4 bar sequence in a sequencer followed by 4 bars of no new notes, but I am trying to get this functionality with things like StepPolyArp that loop back to the start (although I guess one could also add extra space at the end of each cycle there as well).
Thanks.
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Welcome to the forum. 😎
I'm also not sure I understand you. First you say you are trying to record loops, but then it sound like you're OK with adding a tail, which makes it sound like you don't need to loop.
For seamless loops you need to tail to overlap the beginning of the loop. To do this I just record three repetitions of the loop, then chop off the first and last repetition, leaving the middle one that has the overlapped FX at the end. This is quick and easy to do in Audioshare with beat snap turned on.
But if you're not trying to export seamless loops then finding ways to stop the midi coming from apps like StepPolyArp, while keeping AUM running is the way to go. You can either do this in the plugin (such as by switching to an empty pattern in StepPolyArp), or with something that mutes MIDI out to your synths. There are some Mozaic scripts that can do this. I can point them out if you have Mozaic and are interested in that approach.
Modifying the record function to add an overdub option would probably handle this. There are some good AUv3 looping apps worth considering too: L7, Koala Sampler come to mind and @michael is close to shipping Loopy Pro this decade. He is racing with the complete eradication of Covid-19. It’s neck and neck so far. He creates new variants when Covid mutates to keep it fair.
If it’s a repeating pattern, just start recording a few repeats in, so the reverb stuff is already working at the start of the loop. Seems to work for me, but I’m not an expert in this.
@bygjohn Good idea! Although that would still leave the echos etc. out of the space after the last loop, but sometimes they are wanted and sometimes not.