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That sounds very cool, do you think it will be simple enough to market it to students/ teenagers, and beginners as a practice tool? That is an area I think some company should address. Making this technology simple enough that it could help a young music student get better, would open up looping technology to a whole new market. Here's another name, Practiceperferct, or PP for short. a product simple enough for a beginner, but deep enough for a pro. Shudder to think. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Warren Sirota [mailto:wsirota@wsdesigns.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:56 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Naming a software looper Thanks, Stephen. I agree with you that names are important. That's why I'm struggling with it. I had a dream right before I woke up this morning - I don't remember what the dream was about, but one word was prominent in it: Helio. It doesn't have anything to do with looping, but then neither does Ableton (many other products are not named to reflect their capabilities). A dictionary search reveals that "Helios" was the god of the sun or something like that. So there's one name. Another that I thought of was MultiLoop, but I'm not sure how well that really reflects anything. I also thought of "FNEZ Looper" (read it out loud), but that's a bit on the crude side, I guess. One person I talked to liked it, someone else cringed. Cringing is not good. The things that are most unique about this looper (I think, I hope) are: - instant gratification, easy learning curve - Can be operated in hands-free mode; works with most footcontrollers (but a multi-bank footcontroller is best; basic functions can be in the first bank, advanced functions in others) - CD-quality, stereo looping - loop layers are independently mutable and re-mixable - built in digital multitrack recorder makes pristine recordings of your live playing, your loops and aux inputs (like the people you're playing with) - peak limiting on the output. In later versions, different forms of multiband compression will be supported - with a touch of your toe (here I go into marketing-speak), you can save all the loops into individual files for later processing with Acid or the DAW of your choice. - PC (XP) and MAC (OS/X) - affordability - I anticipate 3 versions, one at $89 or so, one at $199 and one at $299. - support for VST plugins to modify the input to the looper and the total mix output At present, it's a fairly basic looper/recorder. In addition to the basic looper, reverse is there, as well as continuously-varying playback speed, controlled by footpedal or mouse (the pitch changes, but it's a pretty good effect). But the architecture is very solid, and I expect to be adding fancy effects rapidly once I get past the initial hurdles of documentation, installers, security (I hate dealing with sw security, but you gotta do it), press releases and all that stuff. I put a couple of screenshots up at www.warrensirota.com/looper so you can get a better idea. I'd love naming suggestions suggestions and votes on the ones I've got: Helio (or Helios) and MultiLoop. Thanks, Warren Sirota www.warrensirota.com > -----Original Message----- > From: S V G [mailto:vsyevolod@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:22 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V05 #746 > > > > Warren, > > Naming can be a very powerful thing. Especially if you > are able to describe within the name what is unique about the > object to be named. Secondarily, the name can be pleasant to > the ear, or at least memorable. Associations with other > products is usually not desireable. > > When I hear the name AccuLoop, my mind immediately goes > to all the cheaply designed and built woodworking tools from > overseas. "Accu" as a prefix, just doesn't instill > confidence in a product, at least to this boy. > > Naming your looper has the potential to make it or break > it. A good example is the software called Chopitch. Does it > mean that your chops will start itching? > > Good luck finding an appropriate name for it. > Currently, AccuLoop doesn't do much for me. > > Regards, > > Stephen > > > > > Warren wrote: > It's a little hard for me to complete the docs, though, > because I'm at sea for a name. I'm thinking maybe AccuLoop. > Whaddya think? (that, totally without an explanation of what > makes it special, is not exactly an easy question - but > whether the name should be related to the specific features > or not is also not an easy one). > > > > > __________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >