Looper transition

[mischi_90]

Hey everybody!

Somehow it's almost impossible for me to get a smooth transition between the loops. I do have no problem with my tc electronic ditto looper. I would say 9 out of 10 times I can play a proper loop. It's the complete opposite with the FM3, 9 out of 10 times the loop isn't in time or does have a cracking noise. (Quantize is off and the crossfade on or off doesn't help.) Any ideas?

 

[mrechtien]

I haven't used the looper a lot in the past, but started trying this as part of a new project. I have to admit I see myself facing the same issue (but blamed it on me).
One thing that you may check is whether the looper switch has a second/long press function assigned: If so the switch-release will trigger start/stop/record. I've made a dedicated view that does only have record/play/.. assigned w/o long press, so the related function gets triggered immediately.

Not sure whether the cracking is related to CPU load (>80 % is considered quite high) - I don't face this.

 

[Snooze]

Hey everybody!

Somehow it's almost impossible for me to get a smooth transition between the loops. I do have no problem with my tc electronic ditto looper. I would say 9 out of 10 times I can play a proper loop. It's the complete opposite with the FM3, 9 out of 10 times the loop isn't in time or does have a cracking noise. (Quantize is off and the crossfade on or off doesn't help.) Any ideas?

I was not sure yet if I was the problem or if it was a bug but it sounds that I’m experiencing the same cracking noise issue in some cases. But I have not figured out yet when the cracking noise happen exactly so I didn’t brought it up yet. In my case I thought it was when I was using the trim feature in FM3-Edit

I also noticed that cracking noise in Cooper Carter FM3 Masterclass but I thought it was noise he had in his setup until I heard it with mine and started wondering if it was a bug.

 

[Rex]

Hey everybody!

Somehow it's almost impossible for me to get a smooth transition between the loops. I do have no problem with my tc electronic ditto looper. I would say 9 out of 10 times I can play a proper loop. It's the complete opposite with the FM3, 9 out of 10 times the loop isn't in time or does have a cracking noise. (Quantize is off and the crossfade on or off doesn't help.) Any ideas?

Do you have the loop record function assigned to a footswitch that has a hold function? If so, then the loop triggers when you release the footswitch, not when you stomp on it. That can throw you off if you don’t compensate for it.

 

[mischi_90]

Do you have the loop record function assigned to a footswitch that has a hold function? If so, then the loop triggers when you release the footswitch, not when you stomp on it. That can throw you off if you don’t compensate for it.

Thank you so much! This helped a lot and makes sense. I had programmed holdfunctions on both the record and the play footswitch. And I think it also helped a little bit with the cracking noise but it's still there sometimes.

 

[porieux]

Do you have the loop record function assigned to a footswitch that has a hold function? If so, then the loop triggers when you release the footswitch, not when you stomp on it. That can throw you off if you don’t compensate for it.

OK that explains it. i have to wonder why the FM3 default layout has the looper set up to be unusable.

it also seems to go automatically into overdub when you press record a second time after recording a loop.
it worked so well by default on the ax8

 

[Dave Merrill]

it also seems to go automatically into overdub when you press record a second time after recording a loop.
it worked so well by default on the ax8

That's a setting in the looper block.

There's also an option to quantize to the current tempo, may help getting the loop to be in sync.

There are also options for crossfade, don't remember what they're called, may help with crackle.

 

[guitaryates]

I'm using a Morningstar MC8 to control the looper and it's dead on for me. It's actually the first looper I've been able to get timed correctly.