[LAU] Loop Composition

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Tue, February 5, 2013 3:25 am, Brendan Jones wrote:
> 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.
>


TerminatorX and Composite might be useful too.

But Hydrogen by itself is a pretty powerful looping interface. Can
definitely be used in the way you describe by turning on/off the loop
patterns in song mode.



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Patrick Shirkey
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