Re: [LAU] Loop Composition

From: Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 18:25:06 EET

On 02/04/2013 05:09 PM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My composition workflow is based on loops - starting by creating rythms
> in Hydrogen and recording a few drum loops in Ardour, creating a bass
> line with amSynth or ZynAddSubFX and recording a few bass loops in
> Ardour, recording some guitars in Ardour and creating some samples from
> that...
>
> The difficulty I'm having in Linux is to create composition from those
> loops.
> In Ardour is is time consuming to reorganise the loops to test new
> order/composition (because Ardour is not meant for that).
>
> My idea of a workflow would be to have a tool to try out the different
> loops in different order and "jam" with them to see what works and what
> doesn't.
>
> Then once that would be done - I would re-record everything properly in
> Ardour (drums with multiple tracks, breaks, etc... a more natural way of
> playing, guitar played and not looped, etc)
>
> I have done some research and found "only" 6 tools:
> - LMMS - it is mentionned several times that it is designed around loop
> composition, but I'm not sure about being able to jam with them. (but at
> least being able to compose and move the loops around would be handy)
> - Luppp, SooperLooper and FreeWheeling - they more look like software
> version of JamMan to me and meant to be played "live"...
> - Giada - that's the last one I found, but the website describes a tool
> more for DJing and looping complete songs instead of actual instrument
> loops...
> - Bitwig - I guess Bitwig will be THE killer tool to work with loops
> from what I could tell from the website.....but we are still talking a
> few months before general availability...
>
> I admit, I didn't really try these tools - I was hoping if anybody in
> the community had a similar workflow and could advise in anyway :)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Aurélien
>

I use seq24 in live mode to queue samples in hydrogen. You can turn your
patterns on on off via keyboard or midi. Useful if you already have some
base samples/loops, but is not really what you are after I think.

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