#41

I think I misrepresented when I said external input. Using my current config on iOS, I can only do either external audio (via Scarlett 2i2) or external MIDI (in this case the Fighter Twister), but I can’t do both. So, in my example, I am using an AUv3 plugin (Aparillo) as the audio source in AUM. If you had an interface with both audio and MIDI, you could do the same set up but using external audio (synth, guitar, mic, etc) and the Fighter Twister. Thanks Bob

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#42

Would this fit the bill?

https://www.iconnectivity.com/products/audio/iconnectaudio4plus

#43

I’ve used one of those for a long time and love it.

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#44

Indeed in 20 characters!

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#45

20 characters of coooool.

#47

do you guys think digitakt /1010 blackbox / op1 / octatrack are comparable? are there sono feature comparison posts or videos?
pro / cons of each? meaningful experiences

#48

The OT seems to come up pretty often here. I for myself have owened one for a bit of time and have tried to use it as a multi-track looper. My experience is: it’s the horror!
Pickup machines are still buggy and there’s some questionable design choices making them hard to use in certain situations. You can use flex machines in a similar way to a looper, and even overdub, but it’s a bit more complicated. In general I would not recommend the OT if you want it to work like a multitrack looper except if you don’t need overdubbing.

I don’t know how much sense it makes to compare these. The only meaningul comparison is if you are after a very specific feature set, but even then, some of those instruments are so different that really makes little sense to compare them.

#49

OP1 and Octatrack are, like, polar opposites. Both are beautiful devices weighed down somewhat by their idiosyncratic interfaces: OT is like a piece of industrial automation software from 1999, OP1 is like an iPad app. OT is great if you like excrutiatingly building the framework of a machine and then reusing it a bunch in new contexts. OP1 is best for noodling and cut-up technique work IMHO.

In the end I sold both devices. OP1 doesn’t play well with others (awful MIDI implementation, bad audio output) and OT is too slow a workflow (and it’s not as portable). I have been much happier with the ER-301 in a tiny pod for my loop/sample/mixing needs.

#50

This patch for the organelle is a lot of fun: https://patchstorage.com/picostudio/

More info here: https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/new-patch-picostudio/4336

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#51

Please consider taking this discussion to Hardware loopers if it gets more general.

#52

i went down this rabbit hole about 2 years ago… ended up building in pd/organelle:

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