Description

LooperOSC - For using Live as a multitrack Sound-on-Sound Looper

Jesse Engel

This patch sends out and recieves OSC to control a Ableton Looper Device. Good for use with devices like a Launchpad, APC, or Softstep. This allows you to monitor the state of the Looper, and control it using OSC. Since Clear, Button, and Undo cannot be controlled directly, they are controlled by MIDI. Put this device in an armed Midi track routed into a Midi channel with remote access like IAC bus (mac), or Midi Yoke (pc).

Device sends out OSC as:

/Looper/[Loop#]/[Parameter] [Value]

[Parameter] (Value) = State (Stop, Record, Play, Overdub), Feedback (0, 1), Reverse(0, 1), Speed(-36, 36), Quantization(Global, None, 8b, 4b, 2b, 1b, 2n, 2nt, 4n, 8n, 16n, 32n)

3 straight to MIDI parameters= Clear (0, 1), Undo (0, 1), Button (0, 1)

Also sends to "toSoftStep" and recieves from "toLoopers" for internal to Live routing. You can change these. Enjoy!

This device can also be easily adapted to map OSC from any other type of device. If anyone is up for writing a little javascript, I'm sure it could be adapted to auto learn the available catagories and be a general "OSC Mapping" device for ableton.