As you’ll know if you’ve read anything about the gear I use for music-making, I’m a HUGE fan of the Looperlative. It’s something I’m very proud of that it was after a gig of mine that Bob Amstadt who invented it decided to build it, and that he asked me to be the first tester and co-developer of the software (I didn’t write any of the code, I was just sent an ’empty’ box and asked him for the features I wanted. He’d code them, I’d test them, and thus it was born, a looping device that did pretty much everything I could ever imagine wanting from a looping device!
It really is the most fully-featured hardware looper around. I’m not a fan of doing these things on a laptop (I know some amazing musicians who do, it just doesn’t work for me on a practical level, or a latency level).
Quite a few of my musical friends have bought them since, and others have expressed an interest in getting on, so I thought I’d point you to this post on the Looperlative forum, where Bob offers a pretty hefty (but undisclosed due to commercial sensitivity, I guess) discount…
If you’ve been considering getting one, now’s a good time. If you don’t know what the looperlative is, watch any of the videos I’ve posted in the last 3 years on Youtube – that’s the Looperlative that lets me do all the layering. All the stuff on Behind Every Word is done with the looperlative. All the layers of bass on the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album are done with the looperlative. It’s proper amazing.
Steve just found you out here on the web. and just found this device tonight, I do looping with vocals and mic inputs as well as guitar how would you say this device would hold up to the trio of demands? Depending on your answer I would love to buy this from you.
cheers
dave
Hi Dave,
the Looperlative would be great with your set up – you would need a mini mixer, as it only has Stereo ins, but it also has 3 assignable stereo outs, so you could have each instrument looped on separate tracks (assuming you weren’t looping them all simultaneously – it’ll only loop onto one stereo track at a time) and then send them out to different post-processing or amps.
So with a little Mackie/Tapco/etc. mixer as your front end (even a Samson S-mix would work to just bring all three in) you’d have a great little set up! And because it’s stereo, everything can be panned to different places in the stereo field (you can control panning via any CC controller (fader-box, pedal etc.) so you can even move things around in the stereo field after the fact.
do check out the forum on the looperlative site – http://www.looperlative.com – lots of great info there, or post more questions here! It’s an AMAZING device. I can’t imagine using anything else right now.
I have a similar set up to Dave… I am in the uk, I would like to buy this looper though. Any chance of getting it here? Would it work in the uk, regarding the power supply…
Thanks Dan
Hi Dan, yup, it comes with a power supply that works anywhere in the world – see http://www.looperlative.com for more details. It’s awesome 🙂