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Right now setting up that particular case isn’t possible.
You could create an after record follow action that selects the clip below. Currently, follow actions are defined at either color level or clip level and not globally. So you would have to set it up for each color. Hopefully, global follow actions will come.
Once you have set it up once you could save the doc and use it as a template.
The way I’d probably set this up, given my current knowledge of LP’s behavior, is to program a binding for each pedal that steps through a series of Toggle Recording actions targeted to each clip in sequence: the orange pedal would have two actions targeted to clip 1 (one to start recording, one to stop), then two targeted to clip 5, and so on. After you’ve recorded all four clips, though, what would you expect the buttons to do?
Oops - just looked up my files & my song is 13/16 actually - are 16ths available & can 13 be added @Michael .
As I said though , the /x does affect bar length ,so just tested switching the /16 to /8 in Ableton & the Global bar counter now no longer follows the melody timing so arrangement is all off.
You aren't by any chance using retrospective recording are you? I don't think tails work with retrospective looping, unless that's changed since I first tried it.
Not sure if you noticed, but if you record your drum computer stuff to audio and mute DC, a lot of CPU becomes available. When synths get muted, LP frees up the resources they used...which I believe is unique among hosts.
I was going to mention this too. I'm getting huge added mileage out of my Air 2 just by remembering to disable apps that I'm not using. It seems like I can go on forever.
Yep. I'm hoping AU parameter mapping improvements are high on the list for when Michael dives back in ... I hope after a substantial and well-earned break.
I’d dare to say this SHOULD be the way to work with Loopy. Bounce whatever to audio and keep it muted/idle in case you want to come back later, change something and bounce again. This should be the mindset, make it all about 🍩
I was watching the Beatles documentary (Get Back) yesterday. They had trouble getting hold of an 8 track recorder!. And I thought about Loopy and my iPad….
Loopy makes it so fast and easy to get you auv3 midi stuff to an audio donut that it’s not really a problem. In Cubasis you have to freeze and then move the track which is now strereo, in Zenbeats it’s ridiculously complicated… I’m ok with changing my workflow when the new one makes sense and Loopy definitely makes sense.
I literally meant that I don’t understand the 13/8 signature.
To me a 6/8 is one 3/4 after another… I do get the 7/8 and I have no idea of what 13/8 means. I just realized I understand signatures where the first number is lower than the second (3/4, 7/8). I don’t get the concept of “more notes than beats” that the 13/8 implies.
I thought it was cool and punk to not care about music theory but I do wish I had a better musical “vocabulary”.
(Edit) I looked it up. I’m still having problems understanding the “8” 😃
Getting weird behaviour with Gauss - loaded as effect The knobs in Gauss will only go to either 0 or 100% when I try adjusting any of them. Anybody else experience this?
No problems like that here. Are you manipulating them on-screen from the Gauss interface, or some other way?
the denominator is largely about convenience in writing out the music and convention. there are a lot times where people won't even agree about the convenience. (Slow blues with swing feel is one example. Some notate as 4/4 and some as 12/8.
Also with meters like 13/8 (or 13/4) there are a ton of different feels that one might have. Again, this is by convention. But people really into poly meters will explore different types of 13
6 + 7
3 + 3 + 3 + 4
3+2+3+2+3
etc
Etc where a group is determined by emphasis on the first note of the group.
In Indian music for just about any number of beats per cycle there lots of different patterns that are distinct and have their own names.
3/4 is a three-quarter-note feel: 1-and-2-and-3-and. 6/8, in contrast, is conventionally counted as two beats - it’s a triplet feel, like the 12/8 blues shuffle. So it’s 1-and-a-2-and-a. 9/8 is similar - it’s three triplets. Irish music uses a fair amount of 6/8 and 9/8, as an example. 13/8 just means a thirteen-note measure with an eighth-note feel. It’s not a matter of there being "more notes than beats," as the 9/8 example should make clear.
[EDIT: There are folk tunes in Balkan music that count 9/8 as 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and-a. More accurately, Western musical notation counts both that rhythm and the Irish three-triplet rhythm I mentioned as "9/8," because they have nine notes to a measure, even though their feels are very different.]
Just onscreen in gauss. Just tried again - loaded new Loopy project and Gauss in effect slot - checked nothing else running in background. Same issue. Any knob or slider I try to adjust automatically moves to either 0 or 100% depending on where I let go on the value.
( and restarted iPad too)
Just making sure I understand. If you use your finger in Gauss’ u.I. to turn any knob, the knob only goes to its minimum or maximum value?
Yes- it’s like a ghost is overriding the knob/slider and as soon as I let go you see the knob move up to 0 or 100. If I let go at 49% it’ll go to 0. If I let go at 52% it’ll move up to 100 when I let go
@CapnWillie Drum Computer is the worst. Almost unusable on my 10.5.
I have no problems with a Gauss running in loopy. What hardware and OS?
Still on ios12.2 - ipad 2018 standard (6th gen).
9/8 can also be counted quickly as 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3 in Middle Eastern music. Blue Rondo a la Turk by Dave Brubeck is a good example of a piece of Western music influenced by that style.
Thank you!! 😄
Wonderful it's here
Thanks !
Drum Computer is better if you change the animation setting and drag the AU window almost off the screen when you’re not interacting with it.
You can offload some Drumcomputer processing by using it in the midi slot of AUM (and others) and have it drive, for example DigiStix
It may not be a very common request but I do in fact play songs in 13/8, 11/8, 7/8, 7/4 etc., in eastern folk music that’s not unusual at all, folks even know how to dance to that crazy stuff 🥳
It wouldn’t be possible to jam along to something like that synced up with mid east or Indian Drummer for example without the appropriate settings in Loopy Pro. One example for a great and pretty easy pattern in 13/8: 123 123 123 1234
Just checked again in LP and noticed 6/4 is missing too. I think it would definitely make sense to have 6/4 and 7/4 since they are not the same as 6/8 and 7/8. It would make syncing up to other apps much easier. Maybe the best thing would be in fact to give the user the freedom to enter anything in the meter setting, or at least anything that’s common place in non western music? In case this would be hard to implement with the smart detection feature maybe one could reserve that feature for 4/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8?
I set up a neat jam with my other half yesterday. I used my guitar into Ableton, and they used a mic into Loopy Pro on the iPad. We synced via Ableton Link, and I also piped the LP master audio into Ableton to record it all.
In LP, I put Other Desert Cities on the master, so we’d have dry loops if needed, but fun delay, live. And I also put a sample slicer pad on one of the donuts, and added buttons to change master clock length (1, 2, or 4 bars).
Result: a couple of really enjoyable hours. My better half often uses complex pro software for work, but is not into playing with tech and apps just for the sake of it. But LP is dead easy to pick up.
Somehow @Michael has made something approachable, fun, and easy to use, and yet super-deep and customizable. The holy grail of software design, pretty much!
+1 (especially for „enter anything in the meter setting“).
A most excellent idea!
“This is protected by the red, the black, and the green!”
(Thanks for the X Clan reference. That’s my morning tunes sorted.)
This is the best feature request I have read yet! Genius.
Pretty nice stuff… haven’t scratched the surface yet.. Thanks for making..