I would definitely love that feature to be implemented. I use ALO looper a LOT, and playing pre-recorded loops is something I would use, so count with me if I can help in any way.
The only issue I noticed is that sometimes, when I’ve recorded like three loops, I try to record another one and I don’t know why the others have been deleted. I don’t know if maybe when I push two different buttons within 1 sec. or something like that could affect. But I always set it to delete the loop when I press twice the corresponding button.
It’s been a long time.since I tried ALO and when I tried it again today, I was unable to make it work as I intended to.
Would there be a tutorial somewhere ? I guess it would be very useful for everyone (and actually for every looper available on the platform).
I guess I could learn some stuff by reading the 121 posts on this thread, but I would prefer some more centralised information. The plugin description is also better than the one of many other plugins, but I’m still too dumb to be able to do something practical after reading it.
Actually it was a looper (but Looperlative) that triggered exactly that. If you check it actually there’s some documentation and we plan to do it for more plugins.
Nope. For now yes, but it’s only because some features are required that are available only on the MOD Dwarf. Anyway, the 1.12 will bring the catch-up and will allow it to be also available for the MOD DuoX.
on my MDX I used ALO a lot.
I’m now setting up my Dward, and could not find ALO anymore, was it abandoned ?
I kind of remember it had a bpm/ bar approach which made it very useful for me (as I need to sync precisely with an external beatbox, so once I know its bpm, I just play loop my stuff over it without needing to click exactly on time).
I took a quick look at SooperLooper, and Looperlative but they seem more a press start-stop to loop which makes it tricky to have a loop in sync with the beat over a long period of time.
Edit: my bad, thought I had the beta flag activated in the plugin store… did not… it’s there !!!
Greetings,
Alo is still the best free looper by far on the FOSS realm.
However I would like to rework some of the logic and make it work with one button to rec/overdub/delete up to N layers, without needing a button for each loop.
Is this of interest for anyone ? I have some experience in C but not much in lv2 and low level audio programming. I already started a fork and some ideas are drafted but having a hard time deciding whats the best approach and how to avoid glitches on delete.
@devcurmudgeon are you still around for something like this? I guess the license allows for a fork if the licenese and authors etc is kept intact.
Its really the one looper I need for mod and on linux in general too!
Personally I love the individual loop element of alo looper - because it enables dynamics in performance (you can switch one part off for a quiet bit and re-add it for a crescendo). But it would be great to have an extra loop which behaves on its own as a cumulative loop - where everything you add to it gets bounced to it. Or you could add function which bounces down existing loops (e.g. loops 1 2 and 3 into loop 4 - and then clears 1,2,3).
There is already some kind of specific functionality to loop 6 - but I never really figured what it did or what its purpose was. So in practice I only ever use loops 1-5
(If all you want to do however is deal with the use case of there not being enough loops just add an extra alo looper to the board and use that - i have never had any problem with doing so)
Is just not intuitive for me. I would like more like the boss looper. N tracks that can be overdubbed on their own and volume controlled would be better for my personal approach imitating most loopers.
