By Chicks427
Wed May 19, 2021 8:42 pm
So I mainly play bass, and lately I'm getting a little tired of sitting in my bedroom hearing /nothing/ but a bassline. I want to, at the very minimum, start playing to a drum loop, with the ability to record my sessions, and it's my understanding that basically any looper/mpc device will cater to that. More than that, I have a midi keyboard that I'd like to use for some chords, and I recently bought my sister an electric drum kit, so it'd be nice to be able to record custom drum loops.
I've been looking at loopers like the boss rc series, and some of the mpc range. Initially I was planning on getting a looper first and just practicing bass some more, perhaps doing some chord harmonics and the like, and doing any production on a desktop workstation, with the loops I've recorded as a kind of library of ideas. Lately, however, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just go ahead and get some kind of device like an mpc one, for example, and simply record my ideas straight on there?
My question is essentially, what would I get when buying a looper that I wouldn't also get if I got an mpc one**? I'm guessing I could attach a foot pedal to the mpc somehow? Though if not, that's not a dealbreaker for me. Other than that, though, I can't immediately see - having never used either of them, only going on various YouTube videos - what extra functionality I'd get from having a dedicated looper, except perhaps a better workflow when it comes to looping specifically. I feel like I'd end up having to move it to a DAW or an mpc kind of device to tweak it the way I wanted, anyway. In particular, I'd like to mess around with the drums so it's not a single loop with only 1/2 variations, and in that case it seems the looper can't do much?
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but having not tried any of these devices, I don't really know what to expect, and didn't want to end up buying something I wouldn't use. I'd appreciate any advice.
** I say mpc one not because I'm absolutely set on that, but just that it seems like the one I'd be going for, unless there ends up being a good reason not to.
I've been looking at loopers like the boss rc series, and some of the mpc range. Initially I was planning on getting a looper first and just practicing bass some more, perhaps doing some chord harmonics and the like, and doing any production on a desktop workstation, with the loops I've recorded as a kind of library of ideas. Lately, however, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just go ahead and get some kind of device like an mpc one, for example, and simply record my ideas straight on there?
My question is essentially, what would I get when buying a looper that I wouldn't also get if I got an mpc one**? I'm guessing I could attach a foot pedal to the mpc somehow? Though if not, that's not a dealbreaker for me. Other than that, though, I can't immediately see - having never used either of them, only going on various YouTube videos - what extra functionality I'd get from having a dedicated looper, except perhaps a better workflow when it comes to looping specifically. I feel like I'd end up having to move it to a DAW or an mpc kind of device to tweak it the way I wanted, anyway. In particular, I'd like to mess around with the drums so it's not a single loop with only 1/2 variations, and in that case it seems the looper can't do much?
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but having not tried any of these devices, I don't really know what to expect, and didn't want to end up buying something I wouldn't use. I'd appreciate any advice.
** I say mpc one not because I'm absolutely set on that, but just that it seems like the one I'd be going for, unless there ends up being a good reason not to.