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an 8-track-cassette-inspired looper for norns

In a few words

It’s a stereo looper (softcut-based) with an adjustable length between four seconds and five minutes, forty-eight seconds. From there, it’s conceptually based on the operation of an 8-track cassette, such that a four minute loop is one minute of tape with four “programs” running in parallel. One can hop the play/record head from program to program, maintaining the relative position.

That’s it. Simple looper with a little trick. Control for playback amplitude, overdub iteration amplitude, and LPF are in params. There’s also a param for mixing in 8-track player noises for authentic, if cloying, nostalgia and feedback.

• ENC 3 adjusts loop length (non-destructive)
• K2 plays and pauses
• K1 + K2 records and halts recording
• K3 selects the next program
• K1 + K3 stops playback and recording, jumping the counter to the start
• K1 + K2 + K3 clears the buffer without affecting playback/record status

That’s all, folks.