Hello,
I have seen an experimental firmware to use Tsunami as a Looper. It is really awesome.
I would like to use this controlling some parameters with trigger In or with Usb Midi controller. Is it possible? If it is… Could you give me some clue to point me in the good direction.
Thank you very much in advance.
The alternate looper firmware for Tsunami does indeed exist, but still in a very experimental form. It supports 6 simultaneous independent mono looping tracks, each routed to the same stereo output pair. Each loop has controls for: Volume, balance, pitch, speed (change speed without changing pitch), loop start, loop length and reverb.
There is currently no support for trigger inputs. All control is through MIDI, and specifically NRPN messages, which are custom MIDI Control messages. So in order to use the firmware, you need to either have a controller that allows you to assign NRPNs to the controls, or you need to write your own MIDI driver.
There are two challenges that have prevented me from pursuing this: The first is the simple fact that 6 loops with 7 parameters each requires an interface with over 40 knobs or sliders, or at least a bank of reprogrammable controls. Such a device is likely a lot more expensive than Tsunami. The only other option is write software to implement the controls on a computer or phone.
The second challenge is that in playing with it, it’s not very musical. It’s really easy to generate some complex, evolving sounds, but once you start messing with the speed and/or pitch of one loop, it’s currently not possible to synchronize it with another loop that’s playing at the same time. I haven’t figured out a way to solve that problem.
I’d be happy to post the firmware as is - it works and is stable. But it would be DYI. I don’t have time to support it at the moment.
Thanks Robertsonic for your deep explanation.