I’m having difficulties with the looper function (using Ardour 9.2). When, during recording a loop, the playhead switches back to the beginning of the loop, the previously recorded underlying track is not audible. It becomes audible if I start afresh, recording a new loop over the top, but, obviously, that’s not what’s needed.
As to monitor settings: on the mixer strip I’ve tried with “In”, with “Disk”, and with both. As to recording mode, I am using “Sound on Sound”. In “Preferences” I’ve set “record monitoring” to be handled by Ardour.
I’ve tried both ALSA and Jack.
Ardour doesn’t really do “loop recording” in the main timeline (which is how I interpet what you’re writing about).
If you want to do multi-layerd “live looping”, you should use a plugin such as sooperlooper. Alternatively, explore the cue page for this, although I don’t consider this (or the equivalent in Ableton Live or Bitwig) to be the equivalent of a live looper.
Many thanks for the quick reply!
I realise this isn’t strictly Ardour’s remit, but would it be possible to enable live looping in the future? Just as a fun bonus…
Sooperlooper is a much better live looper than Ardour (or any DAW, really) will ever be. Ditto for Moebius (Windows). You can just run them as a plugin inside Ardour (or any other DAW).
I really like Sooperlooper. I tried it a long time ago when I was discovering keyboards and Ardour with a little Nektar Impact… I made this video to share with some friends.
How do you run Sooperlooper as a plugin in Ardour on Linux? Inside of Carla? I see MOD provides a LV2, but it doesn’t appear to offer the same level of functionality as the standalone version. The project page shows an AU plugin is provided for Mac, but Linux is only available as a JACK application from what I am seeing.
Hmm, seems my aging memory is failing me. I could of sworn it was available as a plugin, but see that this is not the case. Disappointing. Sorry for the misleading suggestion/info.
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As I recall, Sooperlooper doesn’t actually exist as a plugin. So, for my experiments, I used Raysession with Jack and Sooperlooper as a standalone application. It’s more cumbersome to manage, but it works.
Actually, it does exist as an AudioUnit plugin for macOS but not for any other plugin formats or platforms.
If you’re in Berlin tomorrow
Johan Thelander Lövgren will be presenting Ursund, a live-looping & improvisation DAW written in Rust
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Github link is broken (or outdated).
Sorry about that, my bad, fixed now
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That is a MUCH earlier version of sooperlooper, not really comparable with the standalone version.
I don;t know why Jesse did an AudioUnit version but no other plugin formats …