A friend of mine suggested I get a looping pedal. As I understand it, you push it down and it records whatever you're playing, let up on it and it'll start looping it. Or maybe it's the other way around, I've never messed with one. Anyway, it sounds pretty interesting. But in the interest of not spending money, since I want to upgrade sonar and caketalking as soon as I can, can you do this in Sonar, as a live effect, and if so, how?
I know you could probably do it as split tracks, e.g. record one loop on a track and have it loop, record another loop on another track and so on, and play over those. But I think it would be more interesting to play against it live if possible, so you could do loops on the fly. Maybe the tranzport and a foot pedal? Set the pedal up to do loop on and off?
Speaking of which, assuming the tranzport idea would work, would I have to get a pedal from Frontier or could I just use the sustain pedal from my keyboard? Oh and obviously I'd want to record all of this too. So let's say for instance, we have my friend on guitar, and then me playing a flute. I do a loop section, that starts looping, then I play flute overtop of that loop as well, and maybe add in new parts to the loop. I'm sort of guessing at how a looping pedal would work. But I know if it was a hardware pedal, sonar would record all of that input. So I want to do that if I can make it work in software too, of course. Hopefully somebody's actually used a looping pedal and can tell me about it all, heh. Oh and if the answer is, sure you can do it but it would be tons easier with a midi controller to control the effects and such, feel free to tell me that too, that's exactly the kind of stuff I want to know.
Right now I just have the tranzport and a cheap keyboard acting as a midi controller, no pitch wheel or drum pads or anything. It was on sale somewhere and I got it just to learn on. Anyway, I really appreciate all the help I've gotten on the list so far.
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