#79 Glou Glou - Loupé
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I am still reeling from this one... a titanic undertaking both by Olivier from Glou Glou in designing it, and by anyone, who like me, has been blessed with the job of showcasing this wonderful invention. This video is pushing 20 minutes which is long for me, and I scarcely thing I've scratched the surface. I resigned myself to just play with it how I feel compelled and let other folks show off some other angles. I'll link some other videos below from my YT colleagues.
The Glou Glou Loupé is a looper like no other I've played. Recent additions in the looper market have really upped the standard, adding together groups of features that often you would only be able to have if you owned 3 or 4 seperate machines... then there's Loupé. It has just about all the things people regularly ask for, one shot triggering, reverse, pitching in half step intervals, time stretching... and then it just goes ahead and throws a slew of functions you never dreamed of having, that after experiencing you will wonder how they weren't on your 'must-have' feature list all along.
So, without further ado, please get comfortable, screw on your thinking caps, and partake of my humble approach to this epic machine. Enjoy!
see more at: glou-glou.org/loupe/
Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:40 Hello and Quick Effects Samples
02:57 Default Footswitch Functions with 'Tardibabe Microbiology'
06:06 Scroll Recording
07:15 Games & Read FX Programming (heavy stuff)
09:33 (click here to skip programming) Soft Replace & EXP Crossfading
12:11 Loupé as a Delay
14:29 Piano Mangling Interlude with 'Mushrooms & Ice'
16:45 Outro Sampling the Brian Eno 'Air' App
Other Demos
Hainbach - • The looper that tied m...
Andy Pitcher - • Game 47 | Glou-Glou Lo...
Aldo - • Ties That Bind [live-l...
Andre LaFosse - • A Crash Course Intro t...
Knobs - TBA
Official Glou Glou Channel - / @glou-glou
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@andrelafosse 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful job, musically/educationally/aesthetically. And I learned some new tricks I'm definitely gonna steal! Thanks very much for this. :)
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
No worries! And thanks for yours too!
@soundethersinfo135 3 жыл бұрын
Very, very, very nice one! I get inspiration every time I come by to your videos.
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
@PedalExperiments 3 жыл бұрын
I hope to one day make videos that are *half* as good as yours. Well done, dude! 😎👍 What an incredible pedal! It sounds incredible, and being able to assign functions to different buttons and switches is an absolute game-changer.
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
Oh shush!! Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!
@shanewhite3820 3 жыл бұрын
This pedal came out of nowhere and got my attention pretty quick, it’s no surprise that you’re all over it! I feel the micro looper category has been done to death already and with every man and his dog still stuck on the Chase Bliss pedals etc this seems like a welcome and new take on the category. Would sit alongside the Microcosm just nicely. Great demo, would have been an enviable task haha!
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I’m gonna go sleep for like a month now.
@LoVeAmBiEnT 3 жыл бұрын
Stuck on chase bliss? I take it you do not own one of their pedals ? Lol
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with not having CBA, I love them dearly, but I agree that a lot of people are using them in very similar ways and all sounding like each other, perhaps that’s just through influence. Loupé really does engage you differently so I’m keen to see the different sounds people make with it.
@shanewhite3820 3 жыл бұрын
@@LoVeAmBiEnT well no, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like them, would love any of the pedals that Joel makes but from a creative point of view I feel I’ve moved on from what the Blooper has to offer and something like the Loupé really looks to be a real game changer..plus, well shit it just looks so damn good haha! Cheers✌️
@johngutowski7383 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds amazing. I'm a little new to this type of device, I'm a little discouraged by the waveform discontinuity "clicks" at the start/end point of the loops, is there any way to smooth these out? For example, Ableton Live has a "create fades on clip edges feature" - it'd be cool to automatically introduce a 3ms fade to each endpoint - does the Loupe have settings for this? Thanks!
@ponderersounds3172 2 жыл бұрын
I was sampling pre recorded loops onto Loupé for most of this video. I had several parts pre sampled that I layered up on most sections. The little discrepancies in loop end/starts are more me trying to chop together loops rather than Loupé not doing a smooth job. If you’re playing straight into Loupé and recording live it’s completely smooth and natural sounding, I just had a bunch of constraints around me while I was working on this, on the road, limited gear, etc. Would have done things a little differently if I had the time and right space available.
@KunchangLeeMusic 3 жыл бұрын
Dang this is giving me G.A.S.
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry, there are pills for that
@triviani1234 2 жыл бұрын
7:00~ Listening to this while watching sunrise from a train.
@ponderersounds3172 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! It was fun to revisit this one!
@lockyp204 3 жыл бұрын
Would love to hear it with synths and vocals. Nice work 👍
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
Check the links in the video description for some guys doing exactly that 👍🏼
@lockyp204 3 жыл бұрын
@@ponderersounds3172 will do ta 👍
@srdocherty 3 жыл бұрын
In the section on Soft Replace, what's the little gadget that lets you turn the expression pedal input into a knob?
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
That’s the El Garatge expression knob
@srdocherty 3 жыл бұрын
@@ponderersounds3172 wonderful, thanks. This will be really useful for me (esp when my loupe gets here!)
@chiefbucknell 3 жыл бұрын
They asked Hainbach, so I will ask you: how do you feel Blooper compares to Loupé? If I didn’t have the former (and that EDP+), I’d most likely try to get a Loupé.
@ponderersounds3172 3 жыл бұрын
I haven’t watched Hainbach’s vid yet so not sure how he compares them, but I would say blooper for me with everything mapped to MIDI is something I largely try to be premeditated with, whereas Loupé is something you can setup to you’re liking and then be spontaneous within a performance. Loupé is still very new to me though so the way I use it may change over time. I also think Loupé belongs towards the end of the signal whereas blooper for me usually comes before a bunch of other pedals.
@rodericklopez9850 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Keith, I was able to get my order in today for the Loupé, but it was not without a lot of effort. Their website kept giving me an error message. I finally got the order in. I hope it was worth it :) In my unqualified opinion, the Blooper and the Loupé offer very different approaches to looping. The Blooper seems more niche, seems more analogue, with lots of quirky nooks and crannies (I have one on order as well with Chase Bliss - but I do have the Mood micro looper). The Loupé seems like an engineering phenomenon. It's technology is probably going to become the standard, forcing other looper producers to either add features not found on other loopers, or duplicate Glou-Glou's circuitry and ease of use. The Loupé is probably going to be to loopers what Stymon Timeline is to delays. A workhorse, and overall quick tool for producing amazing loops, with a lot you can accomplish in little time, but not quite as quirky, and probably easier to work with than the Blooper. My sense is that they both have a place in your tool chest. That's my hope and I'm really excited about trying them both. Quirky IM0 - Mood > Blooper > Loupé Work Flow Friendly: Loupé > Blooper > Mood That said, I don't think I'll put the Loupé on a pedal board. I'll leave it on the desk for recording; I like to keep it simple when live. But of course that could change.
@ktulukaramazov 3 жыл бұрын
@@rodericklopez9850 the loupé looks and sounds great, but it has no midi (correct me if I’m wrong) which is incredibly frustrating to a user like me. I’m sticking to my boomerang III (closest competitor is the Aeros loop studio, although I’m not a fan of the touch screen), because I think it’s pretty balanced between traditional and experimental looping needs.
@rodericklopez9850 3 жыл бұрын
@@ktulukaramazov Yup, you're 100% correct, no midi. If you're doing live work and use different loops in a given set, you'd absolutely need midi especially if you're using multiple settings, and even then with the type of complexity required with loopers of this nature it's almost mind boggling (I don't possess enough brain power or patience to make that work). That said, I will exclusively use the Loupé for writing - but I think it's still going to be a challenge. I VERY rarely do live work, and then I keep it simple and go small board: Strymon Timeline and Big Sky (both straight forward and reliable workhorses), King of Tone, Klon or Zendrive, Montreal Assembly Count to Five Delay or maybe one of my Chase Bliss pedals for color... I'm definitely doing too much collecting. I rotate my pedals when I get bored or need inspiration... (I probably own more than I need). But for live shows I'm not going for creativity. Sonically speaking, for live work I'm mostly just go with my Two Rocks Bloomfield 100W and use its spring reverb and a Cali76 compressor, but it depends on the client. They don't usually need a loop, but if they do, it's on a pre-recorded backing track - that I didn't play. Btw, I checked out the Boomerang III, wow! it sounds great and far less expensive! I'm always of the opinion that pedals each have something unique to offer, which is a philosophy that has me spending too much on pedals. There's no such thing as a bad pedal, only pedal that are poorly understood. These days I'm using my Pladask Elektrisk and Vongon pedals a lot. Anyway, my Loupé is still in the box... severe learning curve ahead... lol. But I'm considering getting a Kemper, but I like they way tubes feel. Any thoughts? I subscribed to your channel. Keep in touch. ¡Mil gracias!
@hasan7786 2 жыл бұрын
Just got mine and all im trying to do is figure out how to sync it with anything else. If it can start/stop throught he sync out, I think I can make something work with external gear and midi.
@ponderersounds3172 2 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty certain you can only sync other devices to the Loupé not sync the Loupé to an external source.
@hasan7786 2 жыл бұрын
@@ponderersounds3172 To clarify, Loupe sync out to the deluge clock in-> Deluge midi out to the world. Only need start/stop and tempo. If not, meh, I'll live.
@Jackalberti 2 жыл бұрын
if a dream could be true....
@ponderersounds3172 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a such a spaced out beauty!
@johnduval482 2 жыл бұрын
At one point early on the reviewer says something to the effect that it would “take ages to explain”… to me that says it all. The learning curve appears extreme and fatigue inducing time consuming, to much tweaking equal less productive results. Creative possibilities are endless and that’s the problem, they’re too endless. After all that complaining would i buy one?. . Hell yea! LOL
@ponderersounds3172 2 жыл бұрын
Valid points but there are enough pre-programmed ‘games’ that you can dive in and do some creative stuff with a pretty simple loop. It’s a deep, deep chasm of new sounds!
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