#Augustus loop live looping software

This allows the ability to layer things while older stuff fades out and IMO is what a true looper program needs to have. It has an important feature for doing this type of looping that something like Ableton doesn't have, namely a feedback (or regeneration) control in addition to very long delay times. I've been using this for a while and I like it very much. If you're more interested in the Fripp/Eno,Terry Riley or David Torn kind of layered realtime looping, then Augustus Loop is the better choice. The problem is that it's designed to manipulate audio files and launch their playback at certain times. It's not a very good realtime looping solution for layering and you're right that it's geared more for DJs. I could ramble for England i'm sure.i'd really like this thread to get deep into these issues. It seems to me somehow organic in that sense.

#Augustus loop live looping software

I know for a fact there are a lot of people like me out there banging their heads against the wall because our niche is seemingly so unfashionable for software and hardware developers! Also I see looping as a potential meeting point between the digital, the analog and the real world.

Ultimately I want whatever device proves most appropriate to be an instrument in and of itself, able to perform expressively and intuitively. Over the next few months or so i'll be investigating this subject pretty intensely and I just wanted to throw it out onto this forum to see what responses I could get. Looper's Delight is a good resource but it seems most of the information on there is somewhat out of date. Other possibilities i've come across are Cycling 73's Radial and Augustus Loop, about which I can find precious little on this forum. Ableton Live is supposedly the king in this area but the more I read about it the more it seems geared for DJs at the expense of anyone looking to build music from original live input. I've been using Mobius, a software looper and its a lot of fun and good and what it does but its very limited. I'm very keen on the 'one man loop band' idea, the ability to build up layers of shifting noise, structured, unstructured, songs, ems like Looperlative might finally have come up with the hardware solution but thats comfortably out of my price range for the forseeable future! Much of the time i've spent on this forum has involved reading through old threads on this subject.