Cantabile as a looper possible?

Hi folks

I am using 2 guitars, one acoustic and one electric, and my current workflow is finding chord progressions by ears: then I get their names using Oolimo or Scaler 3
Why I use apps to find names?
Because I always find chords that are easy to play but impossible to name, he he

Then I use the latter to create backing-tracks: it is a lot of fun, but I started recently to introduce loops in my arsenal

Making loops and overdubbing in Bitwig is not so fast and easy
I demoed Mobius and understood nothing :zany_face:

So I reinstalled Cantabile Solo to see if I can do that with multiple Midi players, but I am unable to have them in sync and playing forever, and I think to remember it needs some “programming”

There is a way to make the process in Cantabile 4, possibly easier and faster, or I have to buy a looper pedal?

There are a number of looper plugins you can use in Cantabile - Möbius is certainly one of the most powerful, but frighteningly complex.

There is also a lot of stuff out there that is free and easier to use - stuff like Instalooper, Regen, LoopToGo etc.

Google is your friend - search for VST looper plugins

Cantabile can add all the wiring to get your favorite plugins connected to the looper plugin; that’s what Cantabile is really good at.

Cheers,

Torsten

I personally use a looper called Enso by Audio Damage which is a fun looper with lots of features that work well with Cantabile. I use multiple instances live (using states to mute inputs and outputs) but also use it on the studio to create some “soundscapes” using some of the built in degradation type decay etc. Its not “cheap” (about £60 at the moment in the UK) but there is a demo which only has a few limitations (silence after 20 mins/not recall in DAW or saving). But its my goto…

I also use GVST GLoop just as a really basic looper. Its pretty basic and has some quirks (not the smoothest loop sometimes) but its free and pretty intuitive. I use this sometimes as it has a clear last/recall last so it you are building a loop and screw up you can kind of go a step back and repeat.

Just a couple of options I use in Cantabile.

I used MuLabs as a looper but that is pre-recorded loops (MIDI and audio) - maybe it can do what you want as well.

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I use LoopRecorder which works well in Cantabile. It syncs to the clock.

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