Best Eurorack Tape Looper? Learning INSTRUO's LUBADH feat. 1010 music bitbox MATHs 

Thank you!

Thanks so much! Also a big fan! :)

yep! that makes sense! I'll try it for sure! Also the knob is super small so it's not the best for manual manipulation. Thanks for the feedback! :)

Umm haha! Anytime you do French horn 5ths, yeah! But speaking of Star Trek I think it leans more towards Voyager. :)

Is this v 2.0 lubadh?

So right now, I don't record anything from my computer to eurorack. I just bounce out of either Pro Tools or LOGIC and chop them up as .wav files and put them on an SD card. Then I load them on the bitbox. From there, the bitbox becomes the audio distribution center for my whole eurorack, so I don't have to deal with conversions from line level to eurorack. Having said that, I've used the befaco line level to eurorack and some of the Intellijel line level to eurorack level convertor modules and they sound fantastic. But still, I think bitbox is the way to go. Let me know if this makes sense for ya.

@@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE Yeah, that all makes sense. I have some spitfire audio sounds on my computer and I am considering how I want to work with them for performance. I am not sure yet if I want to pre crate a riff or loop, or if I want to create siingle samples that are played through 1voct live. Also, I have to figure out if its better for me to have the samples reside on modular through my 4ms STS or the Octatrack. If I go 4ms, I have an audio interface I can send to the 4ms via a boredbrain ADAT module that does the conversion. If I do the octatract, thats line level into the device from audio interface.

@@blindianajones haha! Man those seem fun problems to have! Love it! Let me know how it progresses! And man I love my Octatrak too but it doesn’t get the use it deserves!

Thanks for stopping by! Yeah the long sample “could” have been played back pitched down on the bitbox but the ludbah sample rate is much higher and has (to my ears) much smoother sound when it’s pitched down in reverse? Also working on “tapes” sound is a lot more intuitive and fun on the ludbah. But yeah I think all this can be technically done on the bitbox.

@@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE thanks! I have currently the Assimilat8r, which is also great for pitching down a lot, but its not as intuitive with the tiny display, so looking for an alternative. do u mind sharing where u got the samples from?

@@faruambient Thanks for stopping by! :) The orchestral samples are from spitfire audio and some of the woodwinds and cellos are my own recordings! Hope this helps!

@@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE thank you! spitfire is all samples right? not loops. I am trying to find some pre-made loops if I cant play well myself :)

@@faruambient Yeah no loops. All individual samples that needs to be "played" like an instrument. There are other libraries that are loops that are also pretty great, i.e. Native Instrument Kontakt stuff, "Session Strings" and others that have like loops based orchestral samples that has a measure of control, which is super fun to play around with.

The horns are from the BBC orchestra! One of the best there is! Should be easy to find on their site! :) thanks for the kind words!!!

haha yes! The Augmented 5th is everywhere on Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan. One of James Horner's (RIP) best works! Thanks for stopping by!

That’s a great question. As far as I can tell, no! :( that’d be a very useful feature!

@@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE That would really put it over the top. Hard to find a clean time stretcher. Thanks for the vid.

@@I.O.M. check out Nebulae v2 for great clean timestretching / granular module

@@casicadaminuto1 Thanks. I have been have a great time with Beads and 2HP Loop but will give the Nebulae another look.

@@I.O.M.Thanks to the recent Cinematic Laboratory series- and an email exchange to confirm- there are just two modules that have completely independent control over pitch and speed- the QuBit Nebulae (v2 or v1!) and the ADDAC 112. That’s it.

? Instruo? Yes! Big fan of their products! The LUDBADH and the Arbhar!

Thanks for stopping by! Oooh! That's kinda awesome. I was thinking of maybe saying words "backwards" and then playing forward to see how it sounds it being played proper forward? Lot's of fun ways to use it!

Thanks for the feedback and I appreciate your perspective. When I turn to eurorack, it’s not about speed or productivity, instead for me it’s really about validating certain ideas or giving ideas a fresh look. Ultimately this isn’t about actual production, but more like a playground or a chemistry lab for music. Regarding drones, I have plenty of plugins that can do tape looper type work, but manipulating loops in hardware with knobs with immediate tactile feedback is so much more fun! Maybe in the same way some people prefer hardware faders to drawing curves on a mouse. Cheers!

It’s definitely and interesting discussion. The lines are super blurry now.

Appreciate the feedback. Duly noted. The new firmware should make for a new updated video. I'll only disagree with what constitutes "best material" or "simplest" of modulation since that's up to each person's taste. I've certainly done more "wilder" versions that just didn't sound good to me personally (at least at the time of the video) and was taking a lot of effort to make it musical to my ears. One person's tremor is another's earthquake.

@@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE sure, feel free to disagree, but to make myself clearer why it's hardly taste-dependent: the material doesn't really allow to show the start/length variations as it's transient-less, orchestral, floating/droney stuff, often played by modulating the string. it sounds beautiful at times, but too fine to really hear how the machine works, to distinguish between small or large, fast or slow variations. 'simplest modulation' is not because I expect you to do mindless uncontrolled modular bedroom pseudo-avantgarde, hate that, just because with samplers/loopers start/window/end is what we all know and most devices behave similarly with it. let's say I expected more, not different - your material is closer to what I'm working with than most other vids, it's just a deeper dive in 20 mins what I was eager to hear. hope you get the cv in expander and v2 firmware and go for a journey. maybe share your work process from A to Z when doing a (small) project, or some other type of vids no amateurs usually offer. I have high hopes pal, not bashing at all ;) on a side note, how's the noise floor on your unit? lots of vids and forums speak of it.