Definitely inspires experimentation in me! A sound-on-sound tape looper that I can sync to MIDI and melodically play the delay line in key - well, that’s an instrument I’ve been dreaming about for years. Of course if you’re just looking for a delay it’s completely overkill, and I will eventually end up with a Mimeophone as well because it’s got a pretty different take on a similar idea.
Expanding on my earlier post about syncing the looper - I’m now using an Octatrack instead of Ableton, but similar method. Here’s a sample, setup was just Octatrack, OP-1, and FH-2.
3 elements in total.
1 - drum loop from the OT
2 - I used an OT MIDI track to send a trigger into the tap jack to set a 2 bar loop (see above post). I played the OP-1 into Magneto and manipulated the loop extensively with the Magneto’s controls. After a few minutes I had something cool, unrecognizable from the source, in sync rhythmically, and in the right key. I recorded it back into the OT and triggered it as a loop - this is the chord followed by two filtery hits.
3 - this one is the gliding live track on top. Again, set the loop length on Magneto and recorded more OP-1 in. I input a bunch of notes in into the OP-1’s Tombola sequencer, and patched the output into Magneto pitch in. I remember hitting shift and reverse manually, maybe gate went into something too?
I will note it also went to some pretty gnarly and wild places en route to this, I just prefer making melodious and rhythmic synced stuff. Magneto can easily get very Out There.
