[LAU] Freewheeling, keyboard

[rosea grammostola]

how accurate is such a dance pad? As accurate as a footswitch is?

\r

On 8/8/09, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabriel at teuton.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, rosea grammostola wrote:
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>> what is the difference between fweelin and sooperlooper?
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> Freewheeling sports a really nice UI that is really nice while doing a
> live looping performance.  Adding and triggering loops is pretty simple
> and makes it easy to do improvisation and whatnot.  I really like
> freewheeling, but it's always been pretty unstable every time I've tried
> it.
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> sooperlooper is a server (like jackd) that is designed for remote control.
> You can control it via OSC and MIDI.  You have to set up your MIDI
> triggers, though (no predefined set).  It supports some pretty
> sophisticated features on each loop (different sync options, triggering
> options, overdubbing, etc.).  There is a GUI (slgui) that you can use to
> control it... but that is optional.  The original idea of the sooperlooper
> is to mimic the Echoplex... and slgui bears all the ups and downs of a
> hardware-type interface.  Because of the client/server design, many users
> use it on a 'headless' system for performances.
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> <thinking_out_loud>
> Hmmmmm.... what if the fwheeling GUI were used to control sooperlooper....
> </thinking_out_loud>
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> Peace,
> Gabriel
>