Re: Mixer with MIDI scene recall

[Greg Mills <gregmills@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Yeah I use live too, and SL can be run as a plug-in. I know exactly what 
you
mean though, can't stand staring at a screen all the time and a mouse is a
pretty bad interface for musical applications. But many people seem to use
MIDI foot controllers with software loopers successfully. I'm just 
wondering
about latency issues and stability which I can see being the main problems.

Greg




> On 11/1/06, Greg Mills <gregmills@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback Doug. Have you experimented with software 
>loopers at
>> all? I'm going to try out SooperLooper on my laptop and see how it 
>performs.
>> I like the idea of software it terms of flexibility and memory 
>expansion,
>> but I always have more faith in hardware from a stability point of view.
> 
> I haven't tried any software loopers, unless you consider Live a
> looper...  I use some pretty big sample libraries on my laptop (I have
> a 300 GB external disk and it's almost full...), so I use hardware
> boxes for looping and effects.  Part of it is the user interface too -
> I like stepping on buttons and turning knobs more than I like clicking
> and dragging...
> 
> Doug
> 
>