#Hologram microcosm alternative free

I’m also using a Faderfox UC4 to control the track levels, since my favorite looper of all time is still the old EHX 2880 (it’s not that deep but it has the best UI of any looper I’ve ever used or heard of, by a big margin) and I needed to replicate as much of that workflow as I could.

I’ve got the other four tracks set up the exact same way, but with the other pair of inputs and outputs so it’s like having two independent, three-track loopers with input effects.

#Hologram microcosm alternative free

Two more buttons select the next or previous track, and the last two set the regen level of the pickup machines to 0 or -6, which isn’t necessary but it’s nice to have hands free presets for overdubs decaying or not. The foot controller is set up so two of the switches are equivalent to the REC1 and REC2 buttons, and that’s all I need to control the pickup machines. The guitar goes to a thru machine, and I have three tracks with pickup machines set to different lengths all recording from that thru machine. I’ve got a project set up specifically for live looping. If you need to have long, multitrack loops then a dedicated looper might be better. It definitely depends on how long you ned your loops to be, though. These have their limitations/trade offs too though, but that’s just hardware life for you.

Octatrack’s actual looper (pick up machines) is one area I’ve never really explored, though from everything I read it’s particularly fiddly as far as loopers go.Īlternative loop pedals which go further with what you can do with looping are Blooper and (if you can find one) Loupe. They really feel like incomparable devices to me - I don’t think you’d get results from either that sound like the other, but you can at least go and fiddle with every parameter with Octatrack (and it can do so many other jobs for you - Octa + Expert Sleepers FH2 is the best eurorack controller going). The Octatrack does let you do all kinds of stuff with material recorded into it, but the Microcosm is definitely ‘higher fidelity’ with its FX. It’s more a “do I want this part to have some Microcosm on it” kinda thing. It is a competent loop pedal (it’s probably bottom of my list for loopers I own though) and it makes things sound REALLY nice, but I don’t see it as a device that you can do purposeful sound design on. You definitely can’t slice things up and do things with the slices. You have very limited control on the Microcosm for each of its effects: basically two mysterious macro controls. Sounds like Octatrack is more what you’re after than Microcosm. ThisĪt the moment I am recording my guitars and chopping, effecting, dropping into samplers in Bitwig I have both, and play my guitar into both.