Modular · Effects
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.
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.