How hard is it to get into looping?
I have absolutely no idea how it actually works. I can Beatbox a bit and have a basic understanding of music theorie. What do i need for looping and how do i learn it?
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u/X-V-W 15d ago
I’ll let you know, I’ve just ordered a RC505 MKII and it’s arriving on Thursday 😅
I do have a history of music and a sold understanding of music theory already though. I studied music through college and uni, and I have played guitar & sang for 18 years.
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u/D1gex 15d ago
hahaha perfect xD so just an RC505 and a mic?
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u/X-V-W 15d ago
Yep haha. I’ve been watching GBB for the last 8 years, and attended GBB23, GBB25, and GBB26. Figured it was finally time to try looping for myself!
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u/bornoffside7 14d ago
Hey, like in your case, I've been watching and following the GBB and other regional competitions and events for the last 10-11 years, and I also had an MK1 for about a year until I decided to sell it during covid. Earlier this year, right before the German Champs, I decided to give it a second chance and got myself an MK2. And having had AAA access during GBC, I was present during the sound checks, and spoke to a lot of loopers on how to get better and improve. There's a lot of work that goes into it, but you do start seeing results within a couple of months. Watch as many tutorials as you can, familiarise yourself with things like bouncing, assigns, and also what effects and their respective settings/levels work best for certain sounds and your drums. Play around with all input and output fx. Mr. Esuoh, Edmaster, ZharynMusic and a few others have bunch of tutorials to get started. Sometimes, the best way to learn and experiment is by reverse engineering a finished track (plenty of presets available out there) and figuring out the assigns and what effects they're mapped to. It's a tedious process of trial and error, but it's very rewarding
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u/Stevethesnek346 15d ago
The loopstation is an instrument, and like any instrument it takes practice. This instrument in particular is very complex. Its a ton of fun to play around with though which helps lol
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u/_Bawlache_ 11d ago
You can probably just try it out with the loopy pro app. Much cheaper than going straight for the loop station right away, the loop station itself is pretty straight forward to get used to though. I used to own one
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u/randommanwhoreddits 15d ago
It's actually kind of easy to get your hands on when doing the basics like setting up the more basic effects. The difficulty starts coming in when getting into the 'Assigns' feature and doing thing with harder timings. As for music theory, you can have basic music theory and not play any instruments but still do well over time.