I had a friend ask about how you'd go about live looping on an electric piano. It's not quite a synth; my understanding is that it's one of the higher-end grand piano-style keyboards with a line-out and a MIDI out. He was thinking that he could do MIDI out to a laptop, record the MIDI notes, and use a foot controller to start/stop recording and playback of the loop. His only concern was that he feels like there's too much latency whenever he uses the MIDI into a laptop (and it's a top of the line retina Macbook Pro, which is about the fastest computer I've ever used, but his USB=>MIDI interface might be slow.) And he was complaining about the piano samples in software like Garageband being worse than what the piano had built in, but whatever
I haven't really done that with MIDI before, so I showed him the Line6 dl4 and the new TC Electronics Ditto to show him how I'd do it with the line out and maybe a mixer.
There's gotta be some way to do this. How would you do it?
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I looped my wifes yamaha with an RC2 ran the whole thing through my pedal board just ran from the line/headphone out with a standard cable not sure it is the technically correct way to do it but it worked great
planning on setting up my roland this way through the mic input on my RC20 shortly to see what I can come up with
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Why would you not be able to use a Looper??? Looping MIDI is a ridiculous convoluted process and should not be attempted by anyone... My friend didn't want to get a Flashback for his Keyboards cause it is a "Guitar" pedal... I am just wondering where the confusion is???
sonidero wrote:Why would you not be able to use a Looper??? Looping MIDI is a ridiculous convoluted process and should not be attempted by anyone... My friend didn't want to get a Flashback for his Keyboards cause it is a "Guitar" pedal... I am just wondering where the confusion is???
Same reason, the "it's a guitar pedal" and also because they probably thought that looping MIDI might work.
Basically recommended the RC-3 and a mixer. We'll see what happens.
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C3 should work? I can loan him some studio monitors and a mixer, and see what they comes up with.
