Enso is fairly easy to use, but it is also super deep, so we made this complete walkthrough of every feature in the plugin. Visit www.audiodamage... for the manual.
✨Just bought Enso an have been playing around with it in Bitwig..very cool 😎 ... A few requests in later versions would be : 🎛 As Mentioned recording triggered on audio passing threshold . An undo layer button. A light or something when recording is enabled but transport is stopped. A couple more loop channels . Input gain knob. A sync to other instances of enso in project. Global tempo set on first loop like in Ableton. Drag audio in to clips easily also like in Ableton. Thx Audio Damage for filling imo a huge void in the live loop vst world , for anyone who doesn’t use Ableton . Great work an may you be blessed by the community of loop artists with support an love.
Seems really nice! It would really need a clear last overdub function as if you mess up an overdub, you would want to undo only this overdub, not restart the whole loop.
Looks really interesting, and, yes, "deep." But the thing I keep hoping for is something that replicates the "multiply" function of the decades-old Echoplex Digital Pro - which is almost the opposite of your "sectors" concept. In "Multiply" you start out with a shorter repeating loop and then record longer overdubs over quantized multiple iterations of that short loop. To me, this is more musically useful and spontaneous than recording a longer loop first and figuring out what sectors you want to divide it up into. Any possibility of something like that?
Another cool feature idea for the update would be to include gradual audio degradation over time for underlying loops, similar to how old digital delays would act if used as a looper. I imagine this wouldn't be too difficult to do since there's already a saturation feature available in the plugin as is. I've been looking for something to do this accurately for a long time, but this seems like the plugin to do it.
This is great - thanks @Audio Damage, Inc. - one request - I'm using this on the iPad and I wonder if you've thought of making some of the parameters accessible through controls that take advantage of the iPad's tactile/expressive capability? For instance, I love using the +/- in the playback speed section. However, when one switches directions, the +/- also swap how they act on the loop. Play forward, hit the + value, the loop increases in pitch. Switch directions and the same button makes the loop decrease in pitch. This makes sense from a math/value perspective, but personally, I'd like an alternate "strip", like the chord strips in GarageBand. I'd then be able to move my finger back and forth along the strip and regardless of playback direction, the loop would continue to increase/decrease in pitch. It also gives you a way to "scratch" the loop. You could make multiple strips, or have multiple values assigned to one strip. Thanks!
The circular UI would be the perfect place to implement a multi-layer functionality where each previously recorded layer moves into the smaller diameter circle while the outermost circle is always primed for a new overdub as its own audio file. At times my synthesizers phase on the low end since this looper comes before the EQ and mixing stage of my arrangements. Recording them as discrete loops with multiple outputs for mixing in AUM would make this plug-in as essential in iOS recording as AUM, Audioshare, AB3, etc.
Any odds we’ll get full MIDI control, including setting levels, turning effects on/off? (I’d be fine with MIDI CC’s being fixed) I’m mulling over how great it’d be to combine this with a foot pedal and some desktop knobs for performance control without having to use the screen. Might be fun to DIY something like that, or even sequence a bunch of functions.
This looks very cool, however is the plugin able to record live audio to a channel in logic X without glitching (when you activate record in Logic on an audio return) when the looper is playing audio? This is handy for capturing interesting loops on the fly, rather than a buffer save as the manual suggests. I currently use another looper plugin that works in this way, but always keen to look at a replacement !
Most hosts will not allow a feedback path (which a VST loop would cause) and actually making Enso a VST host is very problematic. We’ve tested using it on a return track in Ableton feeding back on itself extensively, and this seems to be the best method for putting other VSTs in the feedback path.
We had that in for a minute, but removed it because some desktop DAWs pass MIDI notes through if you’re inserted on an instrument channel, and this proved to be a little problematic. However, a lot of people are requesting it, so we may turn it on, and then the people with those particular DAWs will be sad and everyone else will be happy. Democracy in action.
Absolutely love this... any chance of native Linux LV2/VST? I've been macOS + Logic since forever but am trying to eventually migrate full-time to Bitwig/Linux.
We had that originally, but it creates a bit of a problem when Enso is after an instrument on a channel. Some hosts pass the MIDI through plugins (notably Bitwig, but a few others) and this can create some confusion. We plan to re-address it if we can make it more explicit.
I watched last night, but couldn't remember if you covered this: Can you control Enso with a Line 6 Helix Floor plugging into an ipad via USB? I understand that I would have to map out the midi commands, but wanted to know if the two are compatible.
Hello, This looks fantastic and I would love to purchase, however I am trying to setup the midi in the demo version to no avail. Im using ableton and the weird part is ableton is receiving midi from my device(s....ive tried multiple), able to midi map basic ableton features and use the midi to play other vst instruments. Yet no matter what I try, or how I route it I cant get enso to map anything , it just stays on waiting. Is this something to do with the demo version? Ive seen some other forum threads with people with the same issue, is this known by you guys? Looks like a fantastic plugin, however I need the midi controls before I can purchase.
You have to route a MIDI channel to it. Ableton (most DAWs for that matter) do not automatically pass MIDI to insert effects. In Live and Bitwig (and most desktop DAWs), you have to make a MIDI track, put it in monitor, and assign the output to Enso. In Logic and Mainstage, you have to instance Enso as a MIDI Effect, and send it audio via the sidechain.
@@AudioDamageInc awesome! if you could do a demo of how you would achieve the fripp effect with a simple guitar loop or something, i have a feeling it would save me (and others) a lot of time. :-) (lot of different ways to explore I see) i will be demoing this this weekend for sure, because a Fripper plug is something I have been looking for for quite some time. am curious how it turns out. thanks!
i love the timed reverse too....just makes it all easier in one plug. :-) its a bit complex.....so i hope to catch it in depth. this is a good demo though. audio routing to different channels in ableton could be nice too, so you could FX individual loops. midi looks great...i have to try it.
Currently on the third try. I am armed with the App IDs of 12 different examples of AUv3s that just have a splash screen, and plan to escalate it until I get someone on the phone to tell me to my face why they’re not approving it. Wish me luck!
Audio Damage, Inc. Beta for many iOS MMM devs, also had to register other kinds of apps for the app store...I know the pain of the game. Crossing my fingers, can‘t wait :-)
One thing i seem to be missing is trigger on input (i.e. start recording for specified measure whenever input audio crosses a threshold). Is that planned?
@@AudioDamageInc many thanks! my use case mainly comes from online jamming with NINJAM, where there is no sync to transport as such (NINJAM plugin has its own internal transport, and the most i can do is switch host's transport to match NINJAM tempo - but no beat sync) - having "trigger by input" functionality would help immensely (as long as "measure length" is respected even with DAW transport not running!).
Insert effects have almost no control over the host; there is no way for an AU or VST to set the host tempo. The one in Live is not a plugin as such, but part of the DAW. So unfortunately, Enso will never be able to set global tempo.
Wonderful job you did !!! So many possibilities it's just awesome for creating crazy unexpected textures or whatever ! Please release an Android (standalone) version ! Greets from Paris ; -)
This is so awesome! I am waiting for this since I saw your Instagram videos with Enso. Itˋs even better then I thought it would be. When itˋs available for iOS i will erase all those other shitty AUv3 apps compared to Enso. 😄 Until itˋs available (common Apple hurry up) I practice patience and read the manual 🤓
Plugins can not control the host at all. Looper can do this because it is built in to the DAW, but in general a plugin has no control over the host's transport. Sorry.
