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Re: New concept for looping control - extremely small and portable!



Now THAT'S COOL!

Way to go, Per!

Next step is to translate this approach over to the Mac ... :-)

Dennis

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> (If someone should take interest:)
>
> In order to minimize my gear I'm building a new looping system with
> ONLY ONE PEDAL! And it's working very well!
>
> Why are we lugging around these horrendously heavy and huge FCB1010
> beasts from Behringer? We don't need them!
>
> It's just a laptop and the tiny analog foot switch. And then I'm using
> a hand button pad to "arm" the foot switch for whatever looping action
> to be executed on the next foot switch kick.
>
> Tech info:
> I'm plugging the switch into a mic pre amp input on the sound card.
> Then a VST plug-in (Peakfreak by TobyBear) creates a MIDI note from
> the incoming audio noise bump and I translate this MIDI note with
> Plogue Bidule into the MIDI events I have set up the Mobius VST looper
> for (correlates to my FCB pedal, so I will stay backwards compatible).
>
> --
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> www.myspace.com/perboysen
>
>