Module reference · Play and record
Looper
Records a few bars and cycles them, with overdubbing
Open in the synth with a demo patch Open ModularWhat it does
Looper is a tape loop: press Record and it captures as many bars as Bars says, then immediately starts cycling them. Overdub records a new layer on top of the old ones without erasing them, which is how a single voice becomes a many-layered bed. Decay sets how much quieter the old layers get with every pass (1 keeps them forever, 0.5 fades them within a couple of cycles) and Mix blends the loop with the direct signal. The loop length is derived from the BPM, so it always lands on the clock grid. The loop lives in this audio session. Changing BPM or length clears it; use WAV recording to keep the sound.
Try this
Record a short phrase from the microphone, then layer another over it.
Ports
- in
- Audio to record into the loop
- out
- The loop plus the direct signal
Parameters
Bars · Decay · Mix
Try this
- Keyboard → Voice → Looper: play two bars, press Overdub and add a third, then another layer; in a minute you have a choir.
- Decay 0.8 and constant overdubbing: the old slowly dissolves, the new surfaces, and the loop changes like a current.
- Looper → Reverb with a big Size: the seams between cycles vanish in the tail.