"I'm really, really looking forward to performing with Bruce Bayard at the Britt Festival's
Performance Garden on Friday, July 17 at 8 pm.
Bruce and I have been exploring Buchla analog Music Easelss and quadraphonic surround sound now for over a year and this proves to be an exciting culmination of quadraphonic performances in this wonderful outdoor venue.
"Novation Launchpad is one of the most iconic music controllers for Ableton Live and other hardware and software. We talked to the product manager of Novation, Olly Burke about how the Launchpad Pro was created, designed and the ideas behind it."
"LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create."
LoopTree Tutorial: Recording
Published on Jul 2, 2015
"In this video I go over normal, chained and layered recording and how to use them. I also look at the following settings:
LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create.
Get your creative juices flowing and evolve your loops using the built-in filter and multi-touch beat repeat.
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LoopTree solves the problem of destructive merging by instead combining your loops into layers. You retain individual control over your original loops and you can also control them as one using the new layer.
Note: of course nothing’s truly unlimited, but we haven’t programmed any specific limit to the number of loops or layers you can have. If you keep adding loops, eventually you will start to hear audio glitches.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
• Unlimited number of loops (practically!)
• Non-destructive layering
• Beat repeat - sample, repeat and reverse loops
• Filter - add variety with an LPF, BPF and HPF
RECORDING
• Normal recording - fixed or multiple length loops
• Chained recording - select multiple tracks to record loops back-to-back
• Layered recording - equivalent of non-destructive overdubbing
LOOP LENGTH
Within a session, all loops are a 2^n multiple of the shortest loop (2x, 4x, 8x, etc). This makes it really easy to set the loop length whilst recording.
EASY TO USE
• One-finger volume/pan control on individual or simultaneous loops
• Group control - group tracks into layers; parent tracks control all layers of child tracks.
• MIDI Control
• Quantize options
• Metronome - create custom accented rhythms
SHARING AND IMPORT
• Support for IAA, AudioBus and AudioCopy/Paste
• Share sessions and recordings via email, iTunes and SoundCloud
AUDIO INTERFACES
LoopTree works well with headphones, but for truly outstanding quality, we recommend using a USB audio interface. We have tested the following interfaces:
"The SQR sequencer is our entry in the modular world. This 4-channels desktop sequencer is very adaptable: you can use it with MIDI gears or modular rigs, you can play it like a classical 16-steps sequencer or go crazy and use the probabilistic approach on top of an innovative stage behavior sequencer, you can sequence on 4 monophonic channels or easily compose a 4 voices polyphonic exotic chord, you can sync it with MIDI or an external clock signal from your modular rig or use its internal clock, to name a few.
Apart from its powerful features, the greatest strength of the SQR is its ability to help you visualize what you are doing. Its big and easy-to-read led display can show you every variations in your sequence, from individual gate lengths to pitches and octaves, from individual slide lengths to chord names or step probabilities. Everything is clear and hands-on: you have direct access to all the essentials parameters and you can visualize everything instantly.
Very similar to the MTRX in design, the SQR is made from top quality components at each stage. From the beautiful enclosure to the Digital-To-Analog converter, each component has been choosen carefully to offer the best possible experience to the user. And we are very proud of the result!
First 50 units will be available by the end of August. The firsts 50 units will be selled at 499€ (incl. VAT), the next will be selled at 599€.
Shipping is 10€ for France, 30€ for Europe, 40€ for USA/Canada and 50€ for others countries.
Specifications
16-steps with individual control of pitch, octave, gate length, gate probability, slide length and stage behavior
4x CV/Gate channels with mono- or polyphonic control (chords)
16-stages behavior sequencer: for each stage you can either play it normally or skip it, stay blocked on it for up to 16 steps, create a tril (up to 8 notes per step) or jump to any other step of your choosing
selectable shapes for the slide between two notes (exponential, linear, ...)
selectable scale for pitches and chords
selectable CV offset per channel
for each channel: loop-in/loop-out, warp mode (forward, backward, ping-pong), step duration (1/32th to 2 bars)
3x sync modes: internal (with or without MIDI clocks out), external clock (for modular rigs) and MIDI
selectable clock divider for all sync modes, both for input and output clocks