[LAU] Loop Composition

[Gabbe Nord]

Are you talking ardour2 or ardour3? Because I do atleast very similar stuff
in my production, and I'm pretty satisfied with ardour3 for that. It's not
optimal, but it certainly works for me =)

Regards,

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Aurélien Leblond <blablack at gmail.com> 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
>
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