Elise MacMillan ||| Final project 220A

Performance of Foot-controlled Looping with effects

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Idea: Using what I have to create a live looping setup that can be controlled completely by foot. Separate effects connect to individual loops and sync during live performance. Live looping and effects create harmony and percussion using one voice.


hardware: macbook, tascam us-122 usb interface, mod keyboard, mic

other: erasers, glue, paint, 14 gauge wire

Keyboard foot controller.

commands: Record, undo, redo, overdub, reverse, loop selection (1-5)

Controls Sooper Looper software,

Jack connections set up:

Mic-tascam usb interface- –sooper looper- pd patch -tascam interface-speakers

Individual outputs of sooper looper loops were connected to pd patches, the harmonizer, and pitch tracker to add synthetic harmony and change pitch of specific loops.

Pd patches: Pitch tracker-fiddle
And harmonizer from Travis patch

There are enough outputs from Sooperlooper to attatch pd effects to each loop, however pd opens with only two channels of input.
The next step is to find a way to add effects to each loop and control the connections separately.

One channel could go in and out of each loop--still, only two effects can be applied to different loops outside of Sooperlooper.