Re: Loopy Llama in Live 5.2

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 4 jan 2007, at 00.49, Tony Douglas wrote:

> Augustus Loop is indeed superb, but I find myself
> having a growing soft spot for SooperLooper - I'm
> still fiddling around trying to decide whether
> SooperLooper with multiple loops open, or Rax (another
> piece of excellent and very cheap software) with
> multiple Augustus Loop instances open is the way to
> go. One advantage to multiple SooperLooper loops is
> that if you open up 4 loops, position the window in
> the top left corner then switch to 800x600 resolution,
> you get a huge display of what's going on - no risk of
> missing anything there ! (Resize the window a little
> and switch off the Dock for full effect...)
>
> - Tony


Yes, you're right about the visual monitoring problem with Augustus  
Loop. The plug-in window is so big. Last year I was thinking about  
fixing a "shell" in Max for displaying Augustus parameter status. I  
never went that far though because I was lucky to afford a pc to run  
Mobius instead. Now I use the Mac as the sound module and loop on a pc.

Regarding SooperLooper vs Augustus I think this discussion is moot  
because they are very different. SooperLooper is more of a looper  
while Augustus is more of a dub machine on acid. I would try to use  
both on a Mac. Make some crazy sounds in August and assemble "the  
music" in SL. The nice part of Augustus is that you can pitch  
transpose a loop while it is recording overdubs. You don't need to do  
much of that before your brain is starting to overheat, but used in  
small dozes it's quite fun.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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