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Siren in the Dust? Dust Siren
Not quite ambient guitar improv in two passes.
p.s. I pretty much let my mind float while I was playing. There are probably half a dozen inadvertent quotes in this (one phrase, in particular, is driving me nuts because I am not sure what it is from).
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p.p.s. Retrospective recording is a wonder. I was listening to the arpeggio track and playing along but not recording. When the loop finished playing, I thought "man I wish I had recorded that. There are some phrases I want to remember." Then I realized Loopy is always listening. I quickly added a retrospective recording button and pressed it and the loopy recorded the playing retrospectively.
“a retrospective recording” button? I’m going to look for that feature.
I’m glad you didn’t loose the improv. Definately a keeper. I love the tone of your rig.
The manual at 3.3 explains it and it appears to be “off” by default. I’m assuming you turned it on before
this improv or does it always listen and hitting that setting after creates the recording?
It is a an option in both the main settings and anywhere that you add the recording action.
With the Quantized option, after the cycle ends you have till the next cycle starts to invoke it.
@McD : retrospective was not on when i was playing. I added the button right after the loop finished its cycle. Loopy is always listening when its clock is running.
Always impressed when someone makes something cool with Loopy Pro. I just wish I could get into it, but for now at least it sits with Drambo in my ‘got it, but don’t get it’ folder.
Really beautiful piece. I’m in love with the tone (that reverb!) and the part from around 1:05 to the end is excellent
Beautiful sound!
Sounds good, Edward! HH, brother.
@morrismorris @jo92346 @LinearLineman : Thank you for listening.
@morrismorris : Blackhole reverb does wondrous things. I often use it on the straight guitar with no amp sim or eq. Here is an example.
You really make me realize I should pick up a guitar more often.
Thanks. I wish I could help you figure out what isn't clicking for you with Loopy Pro as I'd think it would be a boin to your sort of work..particularly the ability to create custom work surfaces to control AU parameters.
I’m in agreement with everyone that loves your tone. You’ve found a perfect balance of whatever delay and reverb mixture this is and I could listen for hours.
Thanks so much! I probably drive my family nuts. I enjoy the sound so much I drone on for hours with my spacey explorations.
Love the piece. It is worthy of that fantastic title.
Thanks!
Bonus points to anyone that figures out the WHY behind the title.
I’m in the same boat as Svetlovska. My feeling comes from the fact that I was already a musician before I came to iOS music, playing and gigging on guitar but I also play keys and bass, read music and know music theory very well. I come from the early days of looping and still have and use a Lexicon JamMan and Oberheim Echoplex. I realize now that the hardware limitations of these units allows me more creativity than the open ended architecture of Loopy Pro and Drambo both of which are too complex and complicated when I actually want to make music.
Every once in a while I get into “geek” mode and try to set them up in a way I prefer but geek mode totally kills making music mode (for me) so I usually end up frustrated and just pick up the guitar and play. There are so many options in Loopy Pro buried inside menus that it’s not easy to figure out how I want to use it much less figure out how to implement that. I wish there were more Loopy templates that are set up like basic hardware loopers, maybe there are. I do appreciate the open ended possibilities of Loopy Pro but not when I want to make music.
Regards, carry on.
Excellent. Not much more I can add that hasn’t been said. Enjoyed this very much.
I heard a snippet of Witchita Lineman near the beginning which is a great song.
Lovely @espiegel123! It has a real Zeppelin vibe for me - thinking Rain Song / Thank You.
Glad you saved it!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks!
That was the phrase that was driving me crazy…It wasn’t until I was falling asleep a few hours after posting the song that it came to me.
Thanks! There is an interesting musical space where Into The Dust and Song to the Siren intersect …and Thank You is in there. It’s not something I had dver thought about until I started messing with these chords and noticed where my ear lead me.
Great sound, lovely playing, too short 🤨
really Lovely sound
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too short for my taste, this could be a loop that more loops loop over?
like Svetlovska, my brain still can't make the jump to Loopy Pro - i have it of course (the least i felt i could do as a thank you to the big-hearted, big-brained Michael, for allowing this space to do it's thing), but like the original Loopy HD, my particular monkey brain still can't get it
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now it may be that i am not a "looper" (never having used any hardware, etc), but i know that to be untrue - loops are a fundamental to much of what i like, things repeating, slight changes, slips in time, so ....
so i just opened it again, and... i think it's the circles. i feel uncomfortable and uncertain as to where i , and the various parts of the puzzle are at - out of the loop as to what and where i am in the sound that is going on.
the app SAND did click with me - a different sort of app, but the point i wish to make is that here there is a linear travel in the looping, and non of the discomfort, so..?
so we all perceive things differently, and find comfort in different things, and were all very lucky to have such choice and possibility
) big Love to all
Thanks!
Did you know that you can display the clips as rectangles if the circular format doesn't suit you?
Sometimes, fwiw, 90% of the time, I am using it as host/mixer that happens to have the ability to record. Much like I used to use AUM but with the benefit that if I want to capture any audio, I can do ot more conveniently than in AUM (as the audio is immediately available for playback). And the other benefit that I can integrate control elements so that I can immediately access AU parameters without having to open the AU (important on my iPad 6 because open AU windows use a lot of CPU.
Thanks!
not reading manuals, and relying on my monkey prodding, no doubt keeps many doors closed to me,
i will have to give Loopy Pro a whole fresh look for the new year
) thank you again
@espiegel123
with the aim of setting up the most basic of basic - just play a few loops - i started again
initially selecting a new project, i deleted the donuts, and added (what i thought) were the rectangles.
a little monkey prodding later - i think what i have are a collection of one-shots rather than loops
and i read this in the manual ..
so, i am still uncertain how to make my loops appear as rectangles?
could you possibly point me in the right direction? or page number
many thanks, simon
To make loops look like rectangles, go into layout edit mode, select the loop, you will have four grab handles. Drag them to resize the clip to be a rectangle rather than a square.
Selected clip
After resizing