[LAU] Loop Composition

Aurélien Leblond blablack at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 16:15:53 UTC 2013


> 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 =)
>
>
I'm using Ardour 3.

I might be using it wrong then - I have a lot of difficulties handling the
"clips"
If i record 10 min of guitar around and cut it in several smaller clips,
the editor list still store the full recording, not the clips...

Do you have any advice here?


> 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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