Fulcrum (experiments with Poly Beebo & Loopler)
I spent a bit of time trying to get the looper on my Poly Beebo pedal to work in a way that makes sense to me. After some fiddling about and and a firmware upgrade for the midi controller, I now have a really powerful looper that syncs up with MIDI. Hurray(!).
Beebo
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If you haven't come across Beebo, it's essentially a 'design your own pedal' pedal. You pick some of 100 different components and connect them together using the touch screen. It's easy to use but it doesn't take long before you get carried away making ridiculous pedals, e.g.a delay pedal where the delayed bits go into a fuzz and the non-delayed bits go through a chorus etc. etc.. Critically, for this video, there's a component called Loopler which is a super-powerful looping pedal.
Signal chain here is:
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HX Stomp pedal for basic delay and reverb
(into)
Poly Beebo:
guitar input to convolution reverb (really nice) and then into the looper. The looper then goes to the guitar output (as you would imagine) but a second path takes the looper output into a granular delay that then comes out of a separate stereo L/R and into the mixer. (blend to taste).
All of which sits in the effects loop of the excellent Bluguitar Amp1 amplifier.
The Morningstar MIDI pedal (assuming anyone is still reading this nerdy ramble!) is connected via USB into the back of the Beebo which powers the pedal and lets you send messages ('record', 'mute' etc) as well as timing information to Beebo to keep it in time with Circuit Tracks.
Synths etc.
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The synth stuff is just Circuit Tracks with the 1010 Blackbox doing bass and pads (both of which I sampled from other synths that I own). There's a tiny weird bit of distortion in that part of the mix but I'm not going to worry about it. :-/
That's it!