Looper & Video
Both of these are the recorder’s, opened over the deck. The pedal is the same pedal. The camera is the same camera. What changes is what they are attached to: Live, and a song that is a platter rather than a timeline.
Both are Pro. Without Pro the looper asks you to upgrade, and the video icon does the same.
The looper
The cassette button in the header opens it. The panel floats, and you can drag it. Closing the panel does not stop a loop that is already going. Leaving Perform does.
It records whatever Live is monitoring. A guitar through the amp on Live, a synth, a mic. If Live is an instrument, opening the pedal turns monitoring on so there is something to hear. A microphone waits for you to press MONITOR yourself. See The Live Channel for why a mic is never armed on your behalf.
The pedal’s own controls, overdub, undo, MIDI learn, the length row, are the recorder’s looper. That page is the one to read for the pedal itself: The Live Looper.
Two things are different here.
The source is Live, and only Live. The recorder’s looper can follow any track you are monitoring. This one has a single source, because the deck has a single input. The input row shows LIVE.
Song length. When the deck has a song, the pedal can lock its loop to one pass of that song. The loop is one bar, and the bar is the song, so a take lines up with the platter and stays there when you play and stop. That switch is on unless you turn it off. Turn it off and the pedal’s own lengths come back: free, or a count of bars against the deck’s tempo and meter.
The loop follows the deck. When the song starts, the loop starts with it, including a take that rolls the song under you. When the deck stops, the loop stops. A scratch does not restart it.
Record on the deck and record on the pedal are not the same button. The deck prints a layer, or a take, into the performance. The pedal keeps a loop of Live beside the song, the way it does in the recorder, until you clear it. Use the pedal to practice a part or to stack a sound you are not ready to print. Use the deck’s record key when the part should become a ring.
Video
The video icon sits beside the transport, off the glass keys. Tap it to open the camera window. Drag the window by its header. Resize it from the corner.
You cannot close Perform while a video is rolling. Stop it first. The deck will say so.
The window minimizes without stopping a take. The video icon stands in for it until you tap the icon to bring the window back. Minimized is not closed.
Two record modes are on this window. The recorder’s third mode, a camera clip on its own, is not.
| Mode | What it captures |
|---|---|
| Song | The camera rolls while you play or record. When you stop, the deck’s mix is synced into the video. Play, or record a part: both end up in the file, lined up with the picture. |
| Screen+Cam | The screen, the camera, and what you hear, including a rewind or a replay. This one is a film of the performance as you gave it, scratches included. |
Song is the one that matches the recorder’s song-take: you perform, and the audio that comes back is the mix, not the room. The effects, the shields, and the rest of the camera are documented with the recorder. See Video Capture & Effects. What that page says about opening the camera from the recorder’s menu does not apply here. On the deck it is the video icon, and it can sit open while you play.
Send the picture to the background and the camera feed fills the screen behind the platter. How bright that is is the slider on the camera window. The song’s artwork, or the plain background of an empty performance, comes back when you leave that mode.
The video files for a performance stay with that performance. A stem set keeps its video with the separation.