Re: Help with Sooperlooper OSX

["Jesse Chappell" <jesse@essej.net>]

On Nov 26, 2007 9:33 PM, Owen Pallett <opallett@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The problem is this:  Any time I try and record a loop of 20 seconds
> or more, Sooperlooper won't let me overdub.  Have I misplaced
> something or am I working the program outside of its abilities?

You just need to create the loop with more than the default ~47
seconds of loop time.  That time accounts for all the available space
the loop has preallocated for its entire operation, including undo
stack.  When you exceed roughly half of that space with a single loop,
when you go to overdub it doesn't have space to keep both the source
and the new layer at the same time.  Yes, this is an implementation
issue that shouldn't exist (and wouldn't if it had a more DAW-like
internal design as does Mobius) but the solution is simple, just
change the default loop time in the preferences, and/or use the Add
Custom Loop from the session menu.

FWIW, the future of SooperLooper is likely to be a reimplementation
using a DAW as the backend engine (Ardour).

But in the present of SL, I just released a new version that includes
Solo and Pause features.  More is on the way....
  http://essej.net/sooperlooper/download.html

jlc