Brad Wofford

Hello Rodrigo. Your posts kept popping up when I was searching for a particular looper I wanted to find/build. I'm really new at Max and was just hoping to get a picture of how you use the looper you built in a live performance situation.

• Do you run the looper right inside a MAX Patcher Window or do you have some custom interface that only gives you the buttons to manipulate?

• Do you have any basic info on the looper you programmed? How you use it?

• Do you have any sample audio you could send a link for?

• I'd love to use what you have but add some elements that (1) sync to a metronome that I could use to monitor the current tempo though headphones (2) Have it randomly select/play/reverse loops of audio I'm playing, as I play the guitar and improvise with the random loop generations.

• Is anything like that possible or does that exist already? I'd rather not have to touch anything but my guitar.

• Do you run the looper right inside a MAX Patcher Window or do you have some custom interface that only gives you the buttons to manipulate?
• Do you have any basic info on the looper you programmed? How you use it?
• Do you have any sample audio you could send a link for?
• I'd love to use what you have but add some elements that (1) sync to a metronome that I could use to monitor the current tempo though headphones (2) Have it randomly select/play/reverse loops of audio I'm playing, as I play the guitar and improvise with the random loop generations.
• Is anything like that possible or does that exist already? I'd rather not have to touch anything but my guitar.

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You emailed me at a perfect time. I've been working an external with someone for the last few months and it's at a beta release stage. If you email (rodrigo.constanzo@gmail.com) me I can send you the external and help file. It's basically my dream looper and does everything I would want. It doesn't do any tempo sync stuff, but it does a lot of stuff.

As far as how I use it, I wrote a pretty huge Max patch (rodrigoconstanzo.com/the-party-van) that I use for all my performances, that has an on screen GUI, but I don't look at the screen when performing. I use a monome/arc (monome.org) controller for that.

If you look on the monome forum, there's been several guys who have used The Party Van with guitar, with one guy in particular (Starfucker) having modified his guitar to work with it.

http://monome.org/community/discussion/13620/app-the-party-van/p1

Drop me an email and I'll send you the external, but have a look at The Party Van too.

If you look on the monome forum, there's been several guys who have used The Party Van with guitar, with one guy in particular (Starfucker) having modified his guitar to work with it.
http://monome.org/community/discussion/13620/app-the-party-van/p1

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