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



I have been experimenting with using my guitar via Axon ax 50 to  
control Sooperlooper, Live and Mainstage. No Pedal. It can be done. I  
just ordered a Godin Spectrum to really did deep into this.
On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Krispen Hartung wrote:

> Brilliant. I'm all for the idea. Right now, my system is leaning  
> toward only my MIDI Mouse pedal (one program button, and one preset  
> up/down button) to freeze random loop functionlity, random effect  
> selection/morphing, and random effect parameter manipulation.  I  
> can do this now with my laptop keyboard, but doing it with the MIDI  
> Mouse, will allow me to close the laptop lid forever!
>
> Ahhhh, if I can just get to the point to where I'm just playing my  
> instrument, yet reaping the benefits of computer technology. The  
> best of both worlds for me.  I can't stand being a slave to my  
> computer.
>
> Kris
>
>> (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
>