I’ve been playing with some of the MIDI plugins and sequencers with v1.5 and the host beat clock - very cool!
I was hoping I could make a ‘quantized looper’ by sticking the MIDI Quantize in front of a looper, but it looks like none of the looper plugins suppport MIDI ports and looks like currently no way to map a plugin’s MIDI output to another plugin’s input port ‘MIDI Learn’ assignment
Before I go off forking one of the looper plugins to add MIDI input ports, any other ideas?
There is 1 way, but its a bit of a hack, you need a hardware loopback from the midi out to midi in. See MIDI Loopback - MOD Devices for an example that filters midi inputs from a USB device, but the exact same method would work for a midi generator on the board.
This topic is related to a question I have as well about beat sync and live looping. Would it be possible to use some time based effects along with creating a short audio loop, then depending on the tap tempo or possibly selecting from a pre-set tempo have the ModDuo send midi sync out to another looper. In my case I have the Infinity Looper which can sync to an external midi clock. I want to do this so that I have a stable clock that I can send to my in-ear monitors. This makes looping on the Infinity more free in terms of what type of loop my inital loop can be, for example, it can be very free/atmospheric, but I will still have the internal tempo in my ear so I can add perfectly synced elements at anytime after the initial loop.
Hi @jeffali, I’ll provide what info I can. External devices can be a slave to the Duo’s clock. IIRC the other way is not supported yet.
As for getting a metronome / click track, on the Duo the headphones are routed from the master out, so there’s no way to split just the metronome into headphones on the Duo (that I know of). I glanced at the Infinity manual and it’s not clear if there is a way to generate a click track based off the beat clock.
Hope that helps…
Old topic, but I’m looking to do the same. I know that the LP3 Basic has a midi input port, so a little hopeful that this can be acheived.
My issue with the LP3 Basic is that it’s stop button seems to work as a mute, instead of an actual stop button. So triggering of the loop is never restarted, simply muted/unmuted.
This becomes an issue when using the looper together with external gear where the pattern lengths of the external gear are not necessarily the same amount of bars as the recorded loop.
Not sure if quantizing the loop would solve it though. My issue is more that I need to force retrigger the playback of the loop from 1 every time I trigger it.
Do you mean when you use the Play/Stop button? I didn’t try that out yet, but I was under the impression that it works as advertised - a stop, and when you hit it again, it starts over from the beginning.
It doesn’t seem like it for me unfortunately. If I record an 8 bar loop with LP3 Basic, then go to a 4 bar pattern on my external gear, then return to the 8 bar pattern and try to start the loop again, it either starts from the beginning or starts from bar 5.
It all depends on how long I stay on the 4 bar pattern, so quite random results of where in the loop it starts (continues).
Hello @Horisonten, I finally found the time to test your issue and I couldn’t really replicate it. Or that, or I misunderstood something.
I recorded a little loop and then hit the play/stop button to either stop it or play it, and in my case, it was always working as a stop and restarting from the beginning. Not mutting it.
I did a little video of it, you can watch it here:
You can see both me pushing and assigned button and also on the WebGUI.
The only thing that happened in my case was that once (as you can see) the press didn’t really go through and the loop didn’t stop.
I believe I probably didn’t set up something as supposed to. I had the Record Mode set to Async and, as you are using it with other gear, likely you don’t, correct?
I had to test this because it’s not what happens to me with my default setup witch is a dwarf midi clock slaved to a Boss RC-10r.
If I start the dwarf with the midi cable off, it works like your video, if I plug the cable after, it continues to work like your video, if I started the dwarf with the midi sync cable on, it only mutes de audio 
it never stops.
I would flag this as a bug and tag @looperlative hopping he can look in to it.
Best,
Just a correction, if I start a new loop with the cable on, it just mutes.
Mutes happen when you select Host Sync or Midi Sync in Record Mode and have a midi clock on Midi IN.
ok so it seems that the bug comes from a use-case that I didn’t test, which is using it with MIDI-clock.
I would say that it’s really a bug then, because on a “non-MIDI-clock” usage, it works as supposed.
Question: Does that happen with the Recorded Mode switched to “Host Sync”? What about when switched to “Internal MIDI Sync” and syncing the entire device to the MIDI clock?
P.S.: I’ve actually tested this on the LP3 One and not LP3 Basic. So I guess that it happens for both