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so, I finally got around to trying the feedback routing in looper, hoping to set up a nonresonant lowpass filter and a complex delay up on the feedback channel.... the idea being that the looper would, when in overdub mode deconstruct the standing loop while making it quieter and cut the highs while I overdubbed more material.

I can't get it to work. Instead of progressively reeffecting the material over and over into the buffer, it just seems to play the loop through the track as if it were a send (ie the loop's buffer is not being rewritten each time it plays through.)

Perhaps I'm just being dumb, but I did re-read the docs like 10 times and try all sorts of ways of doing it.

i have track 1: loop recorded into loop buffer
i have track 2: input is track1:loop insert, output to track1: loop insert.

track2 input sees audio and I can alter the effects and hear the results.

looper on track 1 is in overdub mode and I tried both audio through and audio not through settings.

what I get is just effected audio and occasionally a loud BRWAWP sound at the beginning of the loop that, once it starts it will recur. what I don't get is a loop that is progressively re-effected.

I would love for this feature to work and can think of all sorts of wonderful uses. Enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong, or perhaps it is a bug?

All best: the looper plugin is the greatest gift a software developer has ever given me. thanks.

I also happen to have just tried this routing in b15 and it worked just as advertised. And it's awesome!!!!

Don't know, have you tried turning it off and on again?

Live that is.

Are you absolutely sure your effect works the way you want it to work?

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Hi,

It seems to work properly in b16. Please try the following: setup an audio track with an AutoFilter, and set it to receive and send audio from the Looper feedback channel. Turn Monitoring to IN, and set the filter to something like 1Khz, with some resonance.

Now, record a loop into the looper, set it to Overdub. You should hear the loop getting filtered, and eventualy getting progressively to a point where the resonance becomes louder and louder.

Can you get that to work?

Regards,
Amaury

don't know what I was doing wrong before but it works (brilliantly)

sending the loop through a gentle modulating delay in PSP's Nitro was especially gratifying. Over time the loop smeared in pitch and time seamlessly into a wash. Controlling the feedback levels on the delays in Nitro allowed me to have a defacto feedback on the loop that instead of simply fading allowed the delays to fade gracefully.

What a wonderful tool you have built, Ableton. Thank you again.