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Live Looping Setup

Posted on June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments

My live setup is based around a laptop running ubuntu linux.  JACK is used to connect all the software, and my Recursion Looper(written in PD) is used as the main recording/looping software.  Bristol Synth Emulator is used for uniquely digital keyboard sounds, and Rakarrack is used for guitar effects processing.  A python script I wrote using EasyGUI is used to startup all the programs from one GUI.  Below are links to all the programs that helped me develop my live setup.

http://www.jordancolburn.com/diy-music-projects/recursion-looper
http://bristol.sourceforge.net/
http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/
http://jackaudio.org/
http://easygui.sourceforge.net/

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Simple Synth-Pure Data

Posted on April 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

This is one of the first pd projects I completed, it’s a simple synthesizer with three unique oscillators and one modulation for each oscilator, and overall filter.  Control for the 8 parameters can be accesed using an 8 knob style midi controller such as the MidAir 25 or Oxygen 8.

Simple Synth was mainly an experiment to try out using GriPD for user interfaces, to use this patch you must have PD and GriPD installed, you can get GriPD from:

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/gripd/

To download the Latest version, Click Here

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Recursion Looper

Posted on April 27, 2009 | Leave a comment


Recursion Looper is an application I programmed in Pure Data.  There were many different tools for live looping in software and hardware forms, but nothing seemed to meet my needs.  I combined the features that I used most into a piece of software to let me have a lot of flexibility and sound options in a very simple package.

A quick demonstration video of Recursion in action:

Features include:

-8 tracks(A and B section for each track)

-Tempo synced

-Adjustable time signatures

-Midi Control (Designed for use with Oxygen-8 style 25 key controllers, can create and edit songs without touching the computer)

-Flexible, on the fly recording

-Simple, but powerful effects section

note: you must have Pure Data installed to use this software

Download Recursion looper from it’s sourceforge page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/recursionlooper/

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