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>> In the software domain, the top3 used looper software packages are >> a draw >> between Mobius and Ableton Live (31%), followed by SooperLooper >> (17%). >> Rating-wise, it's Mobius with 90% in the front, followed by MAX/ >> MSP (88%) >> and AugustusLoop (83%). On 30 sep 2007, at 21.54, Krispen Hartung wrote: > What is interesting and also misleading about this is that MAX/MSP is > technically not a looper. One can build his/her own looper in MAX/ > MSP, but > the features and functionality of that will vary wildly...so that > stat is > not really that relevant to anyone who wants to use MAX/MSP as a > looper, > because they have to build their own or use on of the many looping > patches > that max users have built. In short, when we call max a looper, > that could > mean a simple patch that emulates the DL4 to a complex patch that > emulates > several features from Mobius, EDP, Repeater, etc. This is very true. As we're commenting the summary it should also be noted that Ableton Live is also not a looper in that regard (DL4, EDP etc). After having looped an audio input in Live you can not layer more audio by overdubbing into the loop. You have to record new loops *in parallel* or *after*. So the choice of either Live or Mobius gives a strong hint at which major looping methodology a person subscribes to; Mobius going back to the EDP school of working an interchanging loop, while Live goes back to traditional sampling techniques. Ladies and gentlemen, a big hand for Rainer! Thank you for giving us this interesting survey! Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international)