Hello all.

I am curious if anyone could offer some advice or point me to some VST's that can help achieve what I'm trying to do.

I would like to try my hand at making some more layered and improvisational ambient songs. I generally have made songs by recording multiple layers in live time and built them up that way. But I would like to get into looping to improve my workflow and inspiration.

Similar to using a guitar looper, where you would play something, release the pedal, and it keeps looping what you played, allowing you to play over the loop, or to press the pedal again and add to the loop.

So like a VST that I can play something, capture the loop, and punch record and have that loop be recording while Im playing another track. It would open the door for more raw inspiration, versus creating a sound, duplicating, etc., etc...

Ideally, I would be able to add or remove layers to the loop. Is there a VST that offers what I'm after, or a function in the DAW that I'm maybe not aware of. I use mostly Studio One.

Thanks for any help.

 

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/11097/

This is exactly what you're looking for and it sounds amazing. Not the most intuitive ensemble but it's worth taking 10 minutes to read the manual. Hopefully you own Reaktor, if not it's worth every penny. Especially if you're making ambient.

 

circular labs Mobius

 

Thanks! Im gonna give that a try. It sounds from the description like it tends to color the sound a bit, but if it's just artifacts, that is all good. I appreciate the heads up on that.

 

Awesome. That seems about as straight forward as it gets.

 

This is the one for me. https://www.audiodamage.com/collections/software/products/ad049-enso

 

Not to mention, I want that guy in the video to teach me anything I may need to know.

 

You want a VST/reverb with a freeze function. BTW, What DAW do you use?

 

PreSonus Studio One

 

Fl studio (performance mode) will help you if you dont want to use another daw you can use the VST version of Fl instead.

 

Decent freebie with freeze
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/457/

 

I once spent an entire night routing my keyboard's hold pedal to be a midi footswitch to control the MSuperLooper, and got it to work like a true looper pedal. Then it crashed on me because the release had bugs. I didn't try again, because someone gave me a looper pedal for free. But MSuperLooper is really cool.

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSuperLooper