This pedal came out of nowhere and got my attention pretty quick, it’s no surprise that you’re all over it! I feel the micro looper category has been done to death already and with every man and his dog still stuck on the Chase Bliss pedals etc this seems like a welcome and new take on the category. Would sit alongside the Microcosm just nicely. Great demo, would have been an enviable task haha!
Nothing wrong with not having CBA, I love them dearly, but I agree that a lot of people are using them in very similar ways and all sounding like each other, perhaps that’s just through influence. Loupé really does engage you differently so I’m keen to see the different sounds people make with it.
@@LoVeAmBiEnT well no, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like them, would love any of the pedals that Joel makes but from a creative point of view I feel I’ve moved on from what the Blooper has to offer and something like the Loupé really looks to be a real game changer..plus, well shit it just looks so damn good haha! Cheers✌️
Sounds amazing. I'm a little new to this type of device, I'm a little discouraged by the waveform discontinuity "clicks" at the start/end point of the loops, is there any way to smooth these out? For example, Ableton Live has a "create fades on clip edges feature" - it'd be cool to automatically introduce a 3ms fade to each endpoint - does the Loupe have settings for this? Thanks!
I was sampling pre recorded loops onto Loupé for most of this video. I had several parts pre sampled that I layered up on most sections. The little discrepancies in loop end/starts are more me trying to chop together loops rather than Loupé not doing a smooth job. If you’re playing straight into Loupé and recording live it’s completely smooth and natural sounding, I just had a bunch of constraints around me while I was working on this, on the road, limited gear, etc. Would have done things a little differently if I had the time and right space available.
Just got mine and all im trying to do is figure out how to sync it with anything else. If it can start/stop throught he sync out, I think I can make something work with external gear and midi.
@@ponderersounds3172 To clarify, Loupe sync out to the deluge clock in-> Deluge midi out to the world. Only need start/stop and tempo. If not, meh, I'll live.
They asked Hainbach, so I will ask you: how do you feel Blooper compares to Loupé? If I didn’t have the former (and that EDP+), I’d most likely try to get a Loupé.
I haven’t watched Hainbach’s vid yet so not sure how he compares them, but I would say blooper for me with everything mapped to MIDI is something I largely try to be premeditated with, whereas Loupé is something you can setup to you’re liking and then be spontaneous within a performance. Loupé is still very new to me though so the way I use it may change over time. I also think Loupé belongs towards the end of the signal whereas blooper for me usually comes before a bunch of other pedals.
Hi Keith, I was able to get my order in today for the Loupé, but it was not without a lot of effort. Their website kept giving me an error message. I finally got the order in. I hope it was worth it :) In my unqualified opinion, the Blooper and the Loupé offer very different approaches to looping. The Blooper seems more niche, seems more analogue, with lots of quirky nooks and crannies (I have one on order as well with Chase Bliss - but I do have the Mood micro looper). The Loupé seems like an engineering phenomenon. It's technology is probably going to become the standard, forcing other looper producers to either add features not found on other loopers, or duplicate Glou-Glou's circuitry and ease of use. The Loupé is probably going to be to loopers what Stymon Timeline is to delays. A workhorse, and overall quick tool for producing amazing loops, with a lot you can accomplish in little time, but not quite as quirky, and probably easier to work with than the Blooper. My sense is that they both have a place in your tool chest. That's my hope and I'm really excited about trying them both. Quirky IM0 - Mood > Blooper > Loupé Work Flow Friendly: Loupé > Blooper > Mood That said, I don't think I'll put the Loupé on a pedal board. I'll leave it on the desk for recording; I like to keep it simple when live. But of course that could change.
@@rodericklopez9850 the loupé looks and sounds great, but it has no midi (correct me if I’m wrong) which is incredibly frustrating to a user like me. I’m sticking to my boomerang III (closest competitor is the Aeros loop studio, although I’m not a fan of the touch screen), because I think it’s pretty balanced between traditional and experimental looping needs.
@@ktulukaramazov Yup, you're 100% correct, no midi. If you're doing live work and use different loops in a given set, you'd absolutely need midi especially if you're using multiple settings, and even then with the type of complexity required with loopers of this nature it's almost mind boggling (I don't possess enough brain power or patience to make that work). That said, I will exclusively use the Loupé for writing - but I think it's still going to be a challenge. I VERY rarely do live work, and then I keep it simple and go small board: Strymon Timeline and Big Sky (both straight forward and reliable workhorses), King of Tone, Klon or Zendrive, Montreal Assembly Count to Five Delay or maybe one of my Chase Bliss pedals for color... I'm definitely doing too much collecting. I rotate my pedals when I get bored or need inspiration... (I probably own more than I need). But for live shows I'm not going for creativity. Sonically speaking, for live work I'm mostly just go with my Two Rocks Bloomfield 100W and use its spring reverb and a Cali76 compressor, but it depends on the client. They don't usually need a loop, but if they do, it's on a pre-recorded backing track - that I didn't play. Btw, I checked out the Boomerang III, wow! it sounds great and far less expensive! I'm always of the opinion that pedals each have something unique to offer, which is a philosophy that has me spending too much on pedals. There's no such thing as a bad pedal, only pedal that are poorly understood. These days I'm using my Pladask Elektrisk and Vongon pedals a lot. Anyway, my Loupé is still in the box... severe learning curve ahead... lol. But I'm considering getting a Kemper, but I like they way tubes feel. Any thoughts? I subscribed to your channel. Keep in touch. ¡Mil gracias!
I hope to one day make videos that are *half* as good as yours. Well done, dude! 😎👍 What an incredible pedal! It sounds incredible, and being able to assign functions to different buttons and switches is an absolute game-changer.
At one point early on the reviewer says something to the effect that it would “take ages to explain”… to me that says it all. The learning curve appears extreme and fatigue inducing time consuming, to much tweaking equal less productive results. Creative possibilities are endless and that’s the problem, they’re too endless. After all that complaining would i buy one?. . Hell yea! LOL
Valid points but there are enough pre-programmed ‘games’ that you can dive in and do some creative stuff with a pretty simple loop. It’s a deep, deep chasm of new sounds!
Wonderful job, musically/educationally/aesthetically. And I learned some new tricks I'm definitely gonna steal! Thanks very much for this. :)
No worries! And thanks for yours too!
Very, very, very nice one! I get inspiration every time I come by to your videos.
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
Sheesh great video! Loved it. Annnnnnd going to get one of these right now... :)
Thank you! This thing is truly bottomless! Enjoy 👌🏼
Très intéressant !
tellement de couches de boucles!
This pedal came out of nowhere and got my attention pretty quick, it’s no surprise that you’re all over it! I feel the micro looper category has been done to death already and with every man and his dog still stuck on the Chase Bliss pedals etc this seems like a welcome and new take on the category. Would sit alongside the Microcosm just nicely. Great demo, would have been an enviable task haha!
Thanks! I’m gonna go sleep for like a month now.
Stuck on chase bliss? I take it you do not own one of their pedals ? Lol
Nothing wrong with not having CBA, I love them dearly, but I agree that a lot of people are using them in very similar ways and all sounding like each other, perhaps that’s just through influence. Loupé really does engage you differently so I’m keen to see the different sounds people make with it.
@@LoVeAmBiEnT well no, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like them, would love any of the pedals that Joel makes but from a creative point of view I feel I’ve moved on from what the Blooper has to offer and something like the Loupé really looks to be a real game changer..plus, well shit it just looks so damn good haha! Cheers✌️
Sounds amazing. I'm a little new to this type of device, I'm a little discouraged by the waveform discontinuity "clicks" at the start/end point of the loops, is there any way to smooth these out? For example, Ableton Live has a "create fades on clip edges feature" - it'd be cool to automatically introduce a 3ms fade to each endpoint - does the Loupe have settings for this? Thanks!
I was sampling pre recorded loops onto Loupé for most of this video. I had several parts pre sampled that I layered up on most sections. The little discrepancies in loop end/starts are more me trying to chop together loops rather than Loupé not doing a smooth job. If you’re playing straight into Loupé and recording live it’s completely smooth and natural sounding, I just had a bunch of constraints around me while I was working on this, on the road, limited gear, etc. Would have done things a little differently if I had the time and right space available.
Just got mine and all im trying to do is figure out how to sync it with anything else. If it can start/stop throught he sync out, I think I can make something work with external gear and midi.
I’m pretty certain you can only sync other devices to the Loupé not sync the Loupé to an external source.
@@ponderersounds3172 To clarify, Loupe sync out to the deluge clock in-> Deluge midi out to the world. Only need start/stop and tempo. If not, meh, I'll live.
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It’s a deep, deep well
In the section on Soft Replace, what's the little gadget that lets you turn the expression pedal input into a knob?
That’s the El Garatge expression knob
@@ponderersounds3172 wonderful, thanks. This will be really useful for me (esp when my loupe gets here!)
Would love to hear it with synths and vocals. Nice work 👍
Check the links in the video description for some guys doing exactly that 👍🏼
@@ponderersounds3172 will do ta 👍
7:00~ Listening to this while watching sunrise from a train.
Thank you!! It was fun to revisit this one!
They asked Hainbach, so I will ask you: how do you feel Blooper compares to Loupé? If I didn’t have the former (and that EDP+), I’d most likely try to get a Loupé.
I haven’t watched Hainbach’s vid yet so not sure how he compares them, but I would say blooper for me with everything mapped to MIDI is something I largely try to be premeditated with, whereas Loupé is something you can setup to you’re liking and then be spontaneous within a performance. Loupé is still very new to me though so the way I use it may change over time. I also think Loupé belongs towards the end of the signal whereas blooper for me usually comes before a bunch of other pedals.
Hi Keith, I was able to get my order in today for the Loupé, but it was not without a lot of effort. Their website kept giving me an error message. I finally got the order in. I hope it was worth it :)
In my unqualified opinion, the Blooper and the Loupé offer very different approaches to looping. The Blooper seems more niche, seems more analogue, with lots of quirky nooks and crannies (I have one on order as well with Chase Bliss - but I do have the Mood micro looper). The Loupé seems like an engineering phenomenon. It's technology is probably going to become the standard, forcing other looper producers to either add features not found on other loopers, or duplicate Glou-Glou's circuitry and ease of use. The Loupé is probably going to be to loopers what Stymon Timeline is to delays. A workhorse, and overall quick tool for producing amazing loops, with a lot you can accomplish in little time, but not quite as quirky, and probably easier to work with than the Blooper. My sense is that they both have a place in your tool chest. That's my hope and I'm really excited about trying them both.
Quirky IM0 - Mood > Blooper > Loupé
Work Flow Friendly: Loupé > Blooper > Mood
That said, I don't think I'll put the Loupé on a pedal board. I'll leave it on the desk for recording; I like to keep it simple when live. But of course that could change.
@@rodericklopez9850 the loupé looks and sounds great, but it has no midi (correct me if I’m wrong) which is incredibly frustrating to a user like me. I’m sticking to my boomerang III (closest competitor is the Aeros loop studio, although I’m not a fan of the touch screen), because I think it’s pretty balanced between traditional and experimental looping needs.
@@ktulukaramazov Yup, you're 100% correct, no midi. If you're doing live work and use different loops in a given set, you'd absolutely need midi especially if you're using multiple settings, and even then with the type of complexity required with loopers of this nature it's almost mind boggling (I don't possess enough brain power or patience to make that work). That said, I will exclusively use the Loupé for writing - but I think it's still going to be a challenge.
I VERY rarely do live work, and then I keep it simple and go small board: Strymon Timeline and Big Sky (both straight forward and reliable workhorses), King of Tone, Klon or Zendrive, Montreal Assembly Count to Five Delay or maybe one of my Chase Bliss pedals for color... I'm definitely doing too much collecting. I rotate my pedals when I get bored or need inspiration... (I probably own more than I need). But for live shows I'm not going for creativity. Sonically speaking, for live work I'm mostly just go with my Two Rocks Bloomfield 100W and use its spring reverb and a Cali76 compressor, but it depends on the client. They don't usually need a loop, but if they do, it's on a pre-recorded backing track - that I didn't play.
Btw, I checked out the Boomerang III, wow! it sounds great and far less expensive! I'm always of the opinion that pedals each have something unique to offer, which is a philosophy that has me spending too much on pedals. There's no such thing as a bad pedal, only pedal that are poorly understood. These days I'm using my Pladask Elektrisk and Vongon pedals a lot.
Anyway, my Loupé is still in the box... severe learning curve ahead... lol.
But I'm considering getting a Kemper, but I like they way tubes feel. Any thoughts?
I subscribed to your channel. Keep in touch. ¡Mil gracias!
I hope to one day make videos that are *half* as good as yours. Well done, dude! 😎👍
What an incredible pedal! It sounds incredible, and being able to assign functions to different buttons and switches is an absolute game-changer.
Oh shush!! Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!
Dang this is giving me G.A.S.
I’m sorry, there are pills for that
if a dream could be true....
It’s a such a spaced out beauty!
At one point early on the reviewer says something to the effect that it would “take ages to explain”… to me that says it all. The learning curve appears extreme and fatigue inducing time consuming, to much tweaking equal less productive results. Creative possibilities are endless and that’s the problem, they’re too endless. After all that complaining would i buy one?. . Hell yea! LOL
Valid points but there are enough pre-programmed ‘games’ that you can dive in and do some creative stuff with a pretty simple loop. It’s a deep, deep chasm of new sounds!