Help needed with octatrack style phrase looper.

reip

Hey there drambo wizards,

I'm trying to create octatrack style looper, for quick and hands on clip resampling and a fader between track and a sampler . The general idea seems to be quite easy to recreate, but I'm stuck with interfacing a flexible input source for the module. I want the looper to live on bus A, so I routed all of the track outs to A before they go to the master.

Here is what I have now. I don't have a big screen, so I can't really expand it and take a screenshot., but it's quite straighforward.

There are eight separate track audio inputs before the module interface, each of them being connected to corresponding n-1 switch. There are four layers of samplers using the same n-1 type switch with exactly the same connections. The switch sets an input source for a sampler (track) and I'm able to record a clip and sequence it. Then there is a x-fader slider that lets me shift between track input and recorded sequence.

This module works as expected, but I can't think of any elegant and interfaced way to create a bypass mixer, that would feed other (non-chosen on sampler/looper layers) track inputs directly to the master, while letting me fiddle with the ones I'm looping. Adding multiple sources to one input would also be really cool. I was thinking some complex morph and 1-n setups per each input, but maybe there is a cleaner and more efficient way to do it.

Thanks in advance for your magic, folks.

rs2000

Hmmm, I would first think about how I would want to control all that. Of course, everything can be implemented but if it was my patch, I'd prefer to have a simple UI with a restricted set of controls. Maybe start with that, and cherry-pick what you really want when working with it, then let's discuss and find an elegant way to build it.

zachthms

I’m not sure I quite understand what you are asking … but could the audio output module help? You don’t have to send to your audio interface, you can use it to send to say, track B. Also, if you wanted multiple inputs at once, maybe swap out one of those n switched for a layer mixer,

and make a set of custom buttons that turn up the mixer tracks. Like this