Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 18:35
Ok, I'm getting the hang of usine, what a great environment!
I got it to use live, mainly as a loopstation, plugin host, sound mangler, etc.
I'm digging the moody looper workspace, I'm currently configuring it for my specific needs...
It's my first time dealing with live looping, so I miss some basic knowledge about sync and other concepts involved. I might need to be walked through some of it...
So... basically, I want to use the looping in 2 ways:
-first, an ambient looper, meaning that I don't want the different tracks to be synchronized, thus creating independent layers, with different lengths. I tried to play with the quantize settings and managed to get it working as I want, except that sometimes one loop is retriggered once in a while, which I'd like to avoid. I'd like to understand precisely the quantize and sync settings, I read the manual but I find it lacking some basic explanation about many things...
-Second, I want to build songs with chord progressions and fixed # of bars and be able to switch between parts... Let's say I record an "A" part with 16 bars, with piano, I add some bass, then I want to make a "B" part, so I'd like to push a controller so the "A" part completes it's run and stops while the recording starts again on another track so i can start recording the "B" part. Then I want to be able to recall the "A" part again and improvise on top of it, then have it stopped (at the end of it's run) while I take over the piano part and end the song. Would that be difficult to achieve?
On another topic: what's the best way to deal with automating patch changes for plugins? It must be simple but I did not manage to have my plugins react to prg changes, I tried the "create midi message" module, to no avail...
Thanks a lot for your help!
Bovo
I got it to use live, mainly as a loopstation, plugin host, sound mangler, etc.
I'm digging the moody looper workspace, I'm currently configuring it for my specific needs...
It's my first time dealing with live looping, so I miss some basic knowledge about sync and other concepts involved. I might need to be walked through some of it...
So... basically, I want to use the looping in 2 ways:
-first, an ambient looper, meaning that I don't want the different tracks to be synchronized, thus creating independent layers, with different lengths. I tried to play with the quantize settings and managed to get it working as I want, except that sometimes one loop is retriggered once in a while, which I'd like to avoid. I'd like to understand precisely the quantize and sync settings, I read the manual but I find it lacking some basic explanation about many things...
-Second, I want to build songs with chord progressions and fixed # of bars and be able to switch between parts... Let's say I record an "A" part with 16 bars, with piano, I add some bass, then I want to make a "B" part, so I'd like to push a controller so the "A" part completes it's run and stops while the recording starts again on another track so i can start recording the "B" part. Then I want to be able to recall the "A" part again and improvise on top of it, then have it stopped (at the end of it's run) while I take over the piano part and end the song. Would that be difficult to achieve?
On another topic: what's the best way to deal with automating patch changes for plugins? It must be simple but I did not manage to have my plugins react to prg changes, I tried the "create midi message" module, to no avail...
Thanks a lot for your help!
Bovo
