@mosgaard @momo @dreamer @falktx

So, experimenting with the delay in #Carla sync'ed to outboard #MIDIclock and delay… the samples by #VenusTheory are worth trying.

Yet the #GI20 #RolandGK3 to #MIDI interface suffers from the shithole called physics… can't properly track a string until you've seen its wave come half the way through, and with bass strings, this takes loooong. Like 30 to 20msec, depending on the pitch. So this is the tracking latency. Needs quite some practice.

But still… fun times ahead and art is in the process, not in the result. 🤪

(Bass not shown in the video. It's a Steinberger Synapse.)

Things with slow attack are easier with the Bass-to-MIDI thing, like the #Waldorf #Streichfett #Synthesizer, so let's again ask @waldorfmusic  for a Linux version of the plugin edition. 

🧵 #MIDI madness for controlling #Guitarix #Looper from my #Akai #LPD8…

The Akai's touch buttons / drum pads can send Note, CC or Program Change. #Carla needs MIDI CC to control plugins, #gxLiveLooper needs one-shot messages for erasing tracks, yet it needs something on-off for recording. Basically: “hold the rec button” – but how, I need my hands to play, so I need to toggle that.

Solution: Set Akai controller to note mode. Split the “keyboard” so that the upper 4 keys/drum pads get passed on straight in channel 9, and the lower 4 run in channel 10, to which MIDI Note Toggle reacts. Then convert anything note to CC using MIDI Note to CC.

Let's see of this works in a little jam…

Note that I do not intend to do a timed looping performance like these many YouTube artists overdoing Ableton Live, I need drone sounds from bass guitar to be fed into #AudioDamage #Descent #GranularDelay, so timing is not that relevant.

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🧵 Still amazed by this granular delay plugin, AudioDamage AD061 Descent.

I had tried a setup that resembles my #Soma #Cosmos effect engine in the preceding toot. However, the #Guitarix looper is kinda difficult for me. So I remembered there is a quite crazy #looper for #vcvRack. Thus I tried to re-implement the entire #Carla-based setup in #VCV.

It is very easy to use MIDI controllers in VCV. (Guitarix looper was horrible for that.)

It sort of worked. What's difficult perhaps for many people, the routing and controlling, is easy for me as a nerd. VCV has plenty of interesting modules to do whatever to your audio signals.

Yet what it really doesn't have that much is decent equalizers, or a working noise gate. So it's time for rack as a VST host again. And… it doesn't really like to run multi-threaded on my system. My PC is an Xeon with weak single core performance, but using all its 16 CPU cores, it is a beast… mh.

Unsure which route to follow. Plus, the looper in VCV is somewhat idiosyncratic, too.