SimpLoop

What it does

A looper built around three buttons: loop, stop and clear. Loop modes decide whether the second tap stops, drops into overdub, or keeps cycling, and stop and clear can each act now or at the end of the loop. Auto record with a threshold starts capture on the first sound. Recorded audio can be reversed, halved in speed or doubled in length, and level, decay and record fade shape each pass.

In the demo

Jade builds a loop from piano, then guitar, then Samplescape, pulling older passes down with decay. She flips the buffer to reverse and records forward over it, tries the MIDI button assignments with a keystep and a foot pedal, and records the result out of AUM.

Worth knowing

There is no undo and no host sync, and the loop is not saved with the session, so anything worth keeping has to be recorded out. Anyone wanting a synced, multi-track loop station will want something larger.