Re: Help with Sooperlooper OSX

[Owen Pallett <opallett@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Jesse, this is a great help.  As soon as I can pull off a gig  
using your program, I'll put a cheque in the mail.  Best, Owen


On 26-Nov-07, at 10:49 PM, Jesse Chappell wrote:

> 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
>