Loopers

A simple “one-button” looper with a handful of effects.

The looper has five states.

1. Idle

2. Prepared

3. Recording

4. Looping

5. Fading Out

Hitting the button (called looper record / fade out in the bindings) advances the looper state from Idle to Prepared. Playing tuba advances from Prepared to Recording. After 8 bars or so, the looper automatically stops Recording and starts Looping. Hitting the button a second time begins Fading Out the looper over the course of 8 bars. A second loop can be recorded while the first’s fading out.

Below the two loopers are the post-loop Stutter, Tremolo, & Filters. The following bindings are available:

• Looper Stutter Enable

• Looper Stutter Accel

• Looper Stutter Random Rhythm

• Looper Filters

• Looper Tremolo Duty

• Looper Tremolo Depth

• loopers tremolo and stutter subdivision

• mute loopers

Enabling the toggle on the bottom-left makes Ableton play a random riser clip whenever the looper starts fading out.

The toggle to the right of the aformentioned toggle makes the looper auto-record after the tuba drops below the noise gate a certain number of times /after/ the looper finishes fading out.

The menu on the bottom-right chooses how to trigger drum clips in SousaPlayback after the looper fades out.