How to make: Ed Sheeran's Loop Pedal

Learn how to make a custom loop pedal similar to Ed Sheeran's Chewie Monstra II pedal.
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Arduino Files: drive.google.com/open?id=10mI...
Sonnit Looper Software: sonnit.co.uk/software.html
Mobius Software: www.circularlabs.com/download2...
Arduino Nano MIDI Controller: • LIVE from the Lab: Ard...
References:
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www.ultimate-guitar.com/artic...
www.notesandvolts.com/

[@TripleMTime]

I gotta say, you are one talented dude. Thanks for the excellent how-to. Going to give it a whirl myself. Will share pics when completed!

[@fesusadam]

Genius!!!! Thank you!!! I was searching for years to find what ed sheeran is using... thank you so much!! 🙏

[@theshakes6166]

Hey man this is brilliant. I can definitely see this channel blowing up, the fact you can make such great videos regardless of subs and views is mind blowing to me and I hope the hard work pays off. Keep it up

[@immattbailey]

theShakes everyone starts From The bottom , we just rarely see it happen until someone is huge .

[@theshakes6166]

Matthew Bailey Clever way of putting it mate. Sometimes it’s nice to see the side of the internet that’s people doing what they do because they enjoy it.

[@immattbailey]

theShakes exactly right ! And with the internet being so big it’s hard to come across people like this unless you know them or you’re a hater haha.

[@BigDogDaddyD]

Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge. Excellent video. Now a video to demo it.

[@MrMrDeeCee]

So impressive man. Excellent stuff!!! I’m shook ... more power to you. 🙌🙌🏽🙌

[@boilingaction]

Thumb up, a great tutorial, and an awesome result! How many musician are able to say something like: "I not even have my own custom guitar device (looper) I also MADE it by myself. Totally Amazing! My respect for all the work you had with this video and my very best regards from Germany, Chris

[@robertoarizaga4958]

did you just copy and paste the code ino the arduino?

[@zhaf6128]

Need a guide here, stuck at connection between audio interface + arduino output midi + pc. unable to comunicate

[@zibbezabba2491]

This is a great idea. Even if you only want to make the board as a pedal trigger for your laptop.

[@olliecheung6903]

Underrated vid

[@steveforwarduk]

I need to do something like this for Amplitube and my solo live rig. awesome work!

[@notplaying2379]

What an awesome build!

[@haydenl336]

Great video. Great quality video and explanation. I hope your channel starts building.

[@freeform144]

Awesome! Wish I had the time for this sort of project ... . Nice.

[@ТимСлим]

Awesome lopper!!! Great job!!!

[@joetowers4804]

I don't feel confident n taking apart my laptop, but your pedalboard is exactly what I would love to do!

[@TECHBOYBABY]

thanks dude for the idea ill try to make that

[@mikea683]

Excellent video dude! I'm planning of making this using momentary switches father than the peadals (I sit when I play) and a raspberry pi 4 with touch screen.

[@damienthrelfo2120]

Fuck yeah dude. Thank you so much. This is now my new project. I have all those skills, and always wanted a loop pedal. Why not make my own :D You have inspired me. Thanks :D And I quite liked the tone of your video too. Decently paced, the videos in the background just added to the story, rather than needing to be narrated itself, and gave a lot of extra information about the build. And you were interesting to listen to :) You gotta learn to solder tho bro!!!! Haha! It will improve the shit out of everything about all those connections. Deffinatly need to solder the stuff user the heatshrink, but I'd also solder the pedal cables directly to the nano. Mine might even have little capacitive touch pads, so I can slide my fingers up and down each pad to change each input pad, to output from 0-255 each midi channel. Rather than foot pedal I'll controll it on a desk or stand, and just spruce up the code a bit to match :p like I said, you have inspired me! Thankyou :)

[@KarolisMiglinas]

Amazing video. Maybe you can make another video how it working?

[@Uncaught11Spirit]

man you're genius ! you have my subscription

[@AgentCharles522002]

You are a genius of a man

[@StefAnimation]

This is awesome, im gonna build One as well

[@kushview]

Nice work!

[@ksze23]

作れるのは凄い！欲しいなー！！！

[@mallakatani3918]

wow! this is crazy awesome!!

[@zeido86]

Great video! Im making one myself in the near future. But instead of an audrino i will take the circuitboard from a old keyboard and make the pedals mimic keystrokes to control Mobius.

[@J.McSmithy]

I was thinking the same thing. Custom key mapping seems more straightforward imo

[@DanHarville]

This is so cool.

[@drduesenberg2007]

Man, you're a fkn genius! Great work!

[@GUIDESPERSPECTIVE]

that is bad ass. Bravo

[@clydebarber7452]

yo this was amazing bro, now that its been a while using it did you hgave any issues with it later or is it pretty seemless???

[@p.b.2258]

You are a genius

[@petrmalusek9711]

Hi, friend. Thanks for the excellent instructional video. I'm going to build this device. Could you describe which pedal pedal belongs to each button in the Soniit looper (mainly MODE, REC / PLAY ...). Thank you.

[@tomasteres8296]

Youre great man

[@gias3334]

Way too awesome!!

[@StuffUCanMake]

Great video. I subscribed.

[@butahuruf]

Great video!!!! Thank you! Do you need to install m-audio software on the laptop?

[@radiorobasoar]

Genius !

[@nesiansoulallstars]

Bro great video

[@timbo9774]

Very cool video

[@Romarionm]

Waaaaw its amazing

[@seankmathis]

Hi! Awesome project! Really nice. Since your laptop no longer has a keyboard, are you using a touch screen? Have you made any changes during the year since the video?

[@adrianhardrockeddy]

great vid

[@shygrammer]

This actually has made me want to build mine too

[@workingdb]

You rule dude!

[@maxwedekind8992]

So interesting thanks

[@spencermatousek9893]

Hey I was looking for some inspiration on my own build and I definitely found it here! One idea I had was to replace the laptop with a raspberry pie. This may actually be more reliable than the laptop because you can boot right into the software you want. The pi is also smaller and has gpio built in so no need for the Arduino. Also, a battery backup if you are going live would be sweet.

[@JuniorMartins-fb5cw]

Hello Spencer! I'm completly noob on it, but I definitely wanna do it. My brother made me the same suggestion about the Raspberry Pi... Could you please give more details why exactly it won't need the Arduino? Is it possible to connect the pedals right to the raspberry?

[@spencermatousek5452]

@@JuniorMartins-fb5cw the Arduino was used for interfacing with the pedals. Basically it read high or low from gpio and sent that to the controller with a single line communication protocol. A PC can't do this because it doesn't have any gpio but the pi does have built in gpio

[@johnmaynardelec5095]

You caught my attention so here is a sub and a like

[@mahee4774]

bravo!!

[@hurzband_]

Damn!! Man u genius

[@aleksandrpavlov6453]

Respect👍

[@greylynnn]

Awesome man. Do you think you could do a pedal switcher one that does 20 pedals?

[@joaodonatobauman7308]

Amazing dude, your work is awesome. I want to do on for me. Can you do a video testing the pedal? I would like to know if its possible to play more than one layer in a single pedal.

[@joaodonatobauman7308]

In a single switch **

[@MediaBrighton]

Nice one. How much did it cost you and how much time would it take to build one?

[@oliverstapleton9534]

This is awesome mate! I'm in the process of making my own using yours and Sonnit's as reference. Do you think it would be possible to make a tutorial on setting the whole thing up? I'm very new to the whole MIDI controller world so everything I know so far has come from your video and a couple of the old Sonnit tutorials but there are gaps in my knowledge I need to address.....

[@Rain_Landicho]

Bro have you done it already??

[@zhaf6128]

Bro have you done it.. need a guide

[@mikeycross4717]

i have the arduino nano and the coding for it... how do you put the coding on to the arduino nano ??

[@henrywilliams8238]

When the laptop turns off do you have to reset everything or will it come back at startup?

[@senuthuluwattage2432]

what are those pedals? loved the vid!

[@MarcyAvila]

Awesome build! keep making videos, you are very talented ;)

[@freddiehandley278]

this is so cool. I work with the guy that built most of it. we have the prototype casing still!

[@DidItMyself]

That's awesome! I would love to see it and learn more about how the OG one works!

[@freddiehandley278]

@@DidItMyself the original is called the little monster. Message me on Instagram @freddie_handley_music for more info about it and stuff

[@manuelk.8834]

Awesome any update of the looper right now?

[@samuelmarandi2644]

Is der any latency difference in the signal processing? Or does it work just fine?

[@Cruxkg]

Great stuff, two stupid questions :D Are you running those Jack outputs straight into the guitar amp? And can you plug those RCA into home cinema or HiFi, or guitar amp via rca-big Jack adapter?

[@LukeOr98]

Can you please link the pedals you used? Are keyboard sustain pedals good?

[@victorcarvalho4505]

I have one question! This foot pedals is the keyboard/piano kind?

[@skipjackson5349]

I don't have MIDI interface on my audio input unit.... Can I use USB midi direct from the arduino? Thanks for the great tutorial.

[@haguitar]

OMG！！！！！！！You're awesome!!!! So cute!!!

[@woosix7735]

Hey that’s great! Thought to me using a whole laptop seams overkill, can’t you do this with one microcontroller?

[@OFICIAL_SETH]

you're a fuckin GENIUS! nice work! (eres un maldito GENIO! gran trabajo!)

[@jfkshotfirstclips1405]

hi not sure if this will work but I made a racing sim setup with an old membrane keyboard and if you solder two wires together onto the board and then solder those wires to a button then open up a notepad you can make the keyboard type letters depending which two solder joints you wired together, Would this not be a much cheaper solution instead of an Arduino you buy an old membrane keyboard and create a bunch of shortcuts on the program for record clear loop etc. just a thought

[@Guitarsands]

Interesting !! I've never considered making my own Loopstation before ... It looks do-able ..... Have you posted a parts list?

[@cmsquared63]

You hope this was enough for us to “throw one of these together”?! I need a nap.

[@1gtrman1]

What would the cost be to have you make a 4 track pedal mike the Boss RC300 but with 24 bit. Really interested! I have a voice live 3, and the boss rc300. Looking for a custom builder. Look me up.

[@blakeweddings]

Brilliant work! ...sooooo...can I buy one?

[@TheSchmuuuh]

Have you any Latenz between push the pedal to Start the Loop? Thanks Nick

[@benzoneofficial]

How about the red and green LED like in eds pedal. is it not supported in this build?

[@ollyc7023]

Hi I’m building this myself how did you connect the arduino to the audio interface

[@peterherrmann7610]

Hey, can you tell me how you bind the pedals to the Sonnit programm? I have no Idea . when i try it and klick on the Icon with the Keybord logo ther are only numbers under each button but i cant change it. I gues the pedals are working...in mobius i can bind them but there i have to tab them two times zu switch between the tracks or for record or so... maybe Sonnit is easyer?!

[@TabbyCallaghan]

I have just come across looping I'm using loopy pro on an iPad would this work with that kind of setup?

[@joshyboyLFC]

any idea on how much this cost start to end?

[@benzoneofficial]

Does a cpu speed of laptop matter for this? i mean can a laptop with pentium of atom cpu sufficient for this use?

[@robertoarizaga4958]

how do you do the midi mapping?

[@markuskoller5096]

Hi. How do you control the laptop and the software on it without a keyboard or mouse? Or is this only an autostart in Windows ?

[@TJEvans98]

I've been wondering what to do with that old windows tablet I have...

[@AtomDove]

hey, how much will it coast to build one?

[@PanosNikolakopoulos]

Hey can we build this using Teensy 4.0 ?

[@benzoneofficial]

how much the total cost. excluded the Laptop and interface?

[@zerocase3370]

This is awesome, what would you say the approximate cost of the build was?

[@ravimoonen]

Also curious about that...

[@kornflake9738]

Hey, i think you forget the MIDI.h file in your Arduino files :/ could you send it to me or paste a link for it please? :) i'd like to build it too :)

[@jevonchandler9856]

Just curious, how come you didn’t put in the bank button?

[@jaidamodar9952]

cool

[@upside-down6211]

cool,use neural dsp plugin on this pedal for gig,low budget quad cortex haha

[@TusciaArts]

there isn't latency? thanks

[@bhavyachouhan5442]

heyy how will we configure the software on laptop ???how will it be always on because we removed all keyboard and stuff !

[@DidItMyself]

Wireless USB keyboard!

[@user-wz1nb5ez8m]

hi I want to ask Is the hard disk fixed to the back of the screen together with the motherboard? and Is it possible to copy the instructions you have written in the arduino software and then write them into arduino nano to control the software? hope you reply

[@DidItMyself]

Yes, the hard drive is mounted to the back of the screen. You can definitely use the same file just as long as you connect the pedals to the same pins as I did!

[@chriscuthbertson]

Keeping the battery on the laptop would have been a good idea.... if you loose power during a show, you wouldn't have to wait for the laptop to reboot mid song.

[@cotmouf]

*If you lose power you wouldn't be able to use an amp/stereo either...*

[@xsterawesome]

@@cotmouf The amp doesn't have to reboot every time it loses power. I think he's talking about someone kicking a chord loose, not a Statewide blackout.

[@zibbezabba2491]

@@xsterawesome I think he's talking about the audio interface inside the pedal.That needs power too.

[@xsterawesome]

@@zibbezabba2491 The audio interface is powered by the laptop.

[@zibbezabba2491]

@@xsterawesome Are you sure? My audio interface has a 9v power supply. Can't power that from a laptop. He used a DC in I think.

[@grandgrande4720]

But sir the sonnit looper app on laptop dosn't exist

[@BaktaBak3]

WO W ! Are you an engineer as well as musician ? 🎸🎸🎸

[@isaiahshaw6097]

I need one custom made

[@stubbulon5]

Does such a piece of software exist for an iPad? Could be an easier project using an old used iPad…

[@davidfloyd]

Hi there, I am in the process of building a looper like yours, however I am having difficulty with coding the Arduino Nano. doesn't seem as simple as you say in the video. I have downloaded the Arduino files that you have posted In the description, however it will not load into my nano. Is there some thing that I am missing. Do you have a file that you have already that I can copy and paste into the Arduino so it will all work for the looper.

[@Rain_Landicho]

Have you solved this problem?? need updates @davifloyd

[@corbenvandepol5940]

Hello, yet 1 more question... Is the ardweno code writen specificly for you? Becous its not as simple as routing a button to a single code right? Becous when hitting the mode button the behavoure of your track buttons must change right... Or is that all taken care off when downloading the sonnit software?

[@DidItMyself]

Inside of the code there is a section to link the button to the specific pin on the Arduino. You can link as many as you need. Every button should have its own pin. Inside of the looping software is where you can link that button to what you want it to do.