New add-on uploaded: Punch In Loops

[bsork]

I have uploaded a new add-on called (for want of a better name) "Punch In Loops".

Punch In Loops is yet another way of handling live recording and looping in Usine (in case you thought that there weren't enough examples of doing that already...). It's a workspace centered around a script that makes it possible to punch in and out at will anywhere in a bar, and the new recording will start looping after ended recording. The process is the same for the sampler, grain sampler and MIDI piano roll modules, and the "master" patch with the script can handle up to 16 recordings/loops.

The demo workspace contains a grain sampler with a groove in track 1 (to have something to play along with), while track 2 contains the master patch and a sampler. Track 3 contains yet another sampler module, while track 4 is for MIDI recording.

PunchIn Loops is a bit limited in that once the first loop is recorded it won't handle shifting tempo correctly. It is also limited in the sense that it doesn't save the data; the samples and MIDI data can of course be saved, but the loop start positions and lenghts can not. I might try to create a version that handles both tempo shifts and saving of data...sometime.

Explanations of the various interface modules connected to the script are found as a comment within the script.

Feel free to ask questions, make comments or notify me of any bugs.

[senso]

A masterpiece.
I'm impressed.
Just an improvement idea: create a single patch which contains all the samplers?

[bsork]

Thanks for the nice words, Olivier, but it is you who made it possible.

About your idea; when working on this thing I actually had it all in a single patch with a couple of samplers and a MIDI piano roll, but I thought that a workspace with the different modules in their own separate tracks was better suited for demo purposes.

Editing the patches in tracks 2 to 4 and creating sub-patch versions of them is quite simple if one wants to have more samplers within one patch.

I was also thinking of putting some effects on the tracks, but decided that a "clean" workspace was a better showcase. After all, this is a demo workspace to show the recording/looping possibilities, not sound mangling. However, I'm about to start creating a version for myself with a lot of extras...

And by the way - don't forget that several samplers can be controlled as one, for instance with one playing forwards and the other backwards (not for rhythmically critical stuff, I guess), or one "normal" sampler together with a grain sampler, or...?

[senso]

Personally, I'm like you: I always prefer have a lot of simple patches on the grid than a single complex one...
Let it like that, it's perfect and opened enough to adapt to all situations.