Is there a guitar effect pedal or piece of computer software that will do this?
By happyever
@happyever (581)
India
June 29, 2007 4:20pm CST
Is there a guitar effect pedal or piece of computer software that will do this?
I want something like a drum machine and delay pedal combined. It will play back what I played four measures after I played it. Then I will play on top of what I played four measures ago. Is there any software that will do this, a protools plugin or cakewalk plugin, or standalone utility, for free? Howabout hardware that does this?
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@vikkramm (497)
• India
29 Jun 07
This is typically known as a phrase sampler or looper. The best-known hardware version of this is the Boomerang (see below URL), but there are also several other companies that offer this. A hardware floor pedal is the way to go if you want to use this for performance, as a sort of one-man band. (Joseph Arthur and Howie Day are two musicians who have been known to do this.)
In terms of software, you can rig this with any recording program that has looping and overdubbing. Just set your tempo and loop points, and start recording while keeping both the playback loop and monitoring channel on. Software is fine if you just want a songwriting tool or are messing around, but obviously it would be difficult to perform with software.
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
29 Jun 07
Seems there should be. I would think any basic vst loop plug in that repeats would work. I dont do that much with looping myself.
http://www.audiomastermind.com/browse-free_vst_plugins-5886988-1.html
This is a link to a large list of vst plugins that i found to be pretty handy. It has about every type of free vst imagineable. If ya want high end stuff but dont have the money, theres always peer to peer, um....not that I condone piracy of course ( looks down sheepishly at the ground). What do you you use for live performances?
