Tycho Teaches Live Looping with Super8

Jon talks with Scott Hansen AKA Tycho about using REAPER's Super 8 Looper for songwriting and live performances.
Tycho is among the biggest artists using REAPER and it was an absolute pleasure to have this conversation, and to find out he is also a fan of me!
00:00 - Intro
03:23 - What is Super8
04:32 - Why use Super 8 over hardware loopers
05:11 - Linking Record and Play
06:36 - About routing inputs
07:25 - Super 8 Folder
08:25 - Super 8 Function buttons
09:02 - rec / play selected
09:33 - Add to project function
10:27 - You will need a controller. About latch mode
11:28 - Sync modes
12:31 - Visual click
12:50 - Loop length
13:28 - Audio routing details
15:14 - FX Rack tracks
17:55 - 3 ways to use Super8
19:19 - Sequencing super8 functions
21:32 - About action markers
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[@IDDQDSound]

Tycho! Give us a demo on you using thiss!!!

[@ageshero]

Yes

[@NickScottProducer]

Bro so sick!!!! Tycho is one of my favorites ever

[@MakesBadNoise]

Excellent video! I’ve looked for something like this for years!

[@DopamineOverload]

Tycho is such a cool, nice guy, in addition to being an incredible musician and songwriter. And this is yet another reason for everyone to use Reaper. Great vid!

[@ejmikk]

Thanks this was absolutely awesome! And if possible, it would be great to have Tycho back to explain the rest of his Reaper live setup :)

[@TJK2112]

This is great! Tycho is awesome!!

[@elderozone]

Looking forward to watching this!

[@whatshendrix]

Love Tycho and this was very educational!

[@StefanKovatchev]

Awesome episode!

[@kevinnel7038]

YES!!! my favorite artist right here!

[@hugorangel1538]

Thanks for this content, bro

[@bobbys4327]

This is looking perfect for the Nektar Pacer I have. The Pacer is so flexible with many programmable footswitches, but, it is somewhat like Reaper, you make it do what you want. Nektar Pacer has drivers for different DAWs. Reaper is one of them so setup is very easy!

[@VultureCulture]

What a great video! I've been fucking around with Super8 but this cleared some things up for me.

[@guidofazzito]

Incredible

[@NebulousWeb]

Tycho TALKS About Live Looping with Super8 (which is still interesting, but not what I was expecting from the title). Thanks to both of you anyway though. I tried to get my head around Super8 once before and gave up. Maybe it's time to try again.

[@deadbeef]

It's not Tycho's setup, but here's mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZSxaXacl9KtiLs

[@d.lumertz6464]

Nice as always! Interview Ben Levin! He uses reaper in very cleaver ways!

[@shibboleth_without]

More Tycho!

[@gianlucamarchese]

FAVORITE DAW AND FAVORITE ARTIST IN A VIDEO? FUCK YES

[@efraimk1673]

Really cool :D Feels crazy when u realize the big league live on the same planet haha!

[@Cnd2Mn]

WOW!

[@kostasmanikis]

A project template example would be great too!

[@synkrotron]

Interesting stuff :-)

[@yujonpradhananga9999]

Whaaaaaaaat you got tychoooo???? Sickkk viddddddd.

[@aryabanerjee1179]

Whoo!!!!

[@theoriginaltommysteward]

Damn! Nice get.

[@lambd01d]

I remember when Minilogue just came out and I was trying to help Scott out with a workaround for an annoying Minilogue MIDI clock bug using Reaper. The 'workaround' didn't actually work and I was quite embarrassed. Fortunately, Korg fixed the bug in a firmware update, so it was alright in the end.

[@prodcore]

Hi Tycho. How come I can't unfreeze midi tracks on Reaper 6.3? I saw some tutorials which showed how to do it. So I tried it and it worked but when I wanted to unfreeze it I couldn't. Is there a new way to do it? I need to edit some midi tracks.

[@ageshero]

Got to chat with him for a sec in El Paso Texas at tricky falls, which is now closed. Huge inspiration always

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I had an awesome chat with Scott this week. great dude

[@nikitasavcenko3666]

Top ☺️

[@honeysucklecat]

My live looping setup uses TouchOSC as a controller, jsvolume and readelay. OSC works better than MIDI because OSC allows the controller to hit infinite repeat on the delay, whereas MIDI will hit .01 above or below . Input is on one track, audio sent to track with delay. Volume js is turned up or down to send signal into delay. Using a fader gets rid of loop clicks.

[@honeysucklecat]

I have a track template with 4 tracks set up. I use parameter modulation so all I record is the raw input. Been searching for a looping setup for decades that can beat synch, and this is best thing I’ve come up with. The very audible click at the loop points on SuperLooper makes it useless for what I do

[@mx676]

wowww

[@DThompson55]

BRILLIANT~! So much good stuff here. Question: Who is this Justin he keeps referring to? (Answered: Justin Frankel) Also, how is he listening to his click without his click going out to his mains? Also, I want to know more about his hardware set up. Your follow-on video to this answered a lot of my other questions!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

pretty sure the click goes to channels 3-4 of his interface

[@melasonos6132]

Dude, Tycho said he's a huge fan of YOU. what?...nice...(me too btw thank you)

[@ac27934]

Need to hook him up with Loopy Pro!

[@veggiemitegames9044]

Gotta grab a notepad for some of those vsts

[@citadelo5ricks]

What is the computer he uses? UAD Apollo sounds good but Amplitube in Reaper for live effects does that cause latency? Or do you play with direct monitoring from Apollo then add the effects from Amplitube for subsequent loops?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I think his main system is an iMac Pro, and a MacBook Pro for live rig. Amplitube has a bit of extra latency.

[@citadelo5ricks]

@@TheREAPERBlog I would guess he'd live track with UAD and audtion with effects but print dry (or slightly compressed), then have Amplitube on the subsequent loop. Even 2 or 3 ms on guitar will throw you off.

[@thegeorgewhite]

I'm curious as to what that second row of markers he has in his timeline is? Between regions and markers.

[@IDDQDSound]

It's just a normal marker but if you expand your ruler it'll do that to display the full marker name rather than just some of it :)

[@thegeorgewhite]

@@IDDQDSound Ah! Learn something new everyday. Thanks!

[@honzakalnik]

Hey guys! Thanks so much for the video, exactly what I was looking for! One question tho. Could you please tell me who is that Justin guy you guys are talking about here and there in the first half of the video? Thanks so much! Actually I'm using this for my live looping setup even before I've seen this video and I'm glad somebody else who is such big name uses it too! Keep doing the Awesome stuff Jon!

[@Lekan675]

Justin Frankel i guess,Reaper creator

[@TheREAPERBlog]

That’s right.

[@honeysucklecat]

Biggest issue I have with this plugin are the clicks at loop points.

[@chumbo]

He's not the greatest instructor but still very useful, thanks!

[@LDdrums20]

You can tell that jon is a tycho fan

[@Gussent]

Super8 vs Playtime would also be great I guess =)))

[@TomWilkowske]

Awesome video !!! Who is Justin? Anyone? Bueller ... Anyone ... ?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Justin Frankel, who made Super8 and REAPER, and long ago WinAmp.

[@johnkim3257]

WHOAAA I've been searching, and got the analog version, the rc505 and then i wanted to control it with a pedal so i got the behringer fcb 1010, and I see this and realize I could have just gotten the pedals? but the rc505 has some sick vocal effeccts and synth effects and beat repeat effects and is still amazing as fuck. but im glad i saw tthis video

[@TheREAPERBlog]

enjoy the rc505. It looks awesome! Maybe you can find a way to use super8 along with it.

[@johnkim3257]

@@TheREAPERBlog that's what I'm figuring out right now lol!!

[@eltonwild5648]

Who is Justin that he keeps mentioning?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Justin Frankel, made reaper.

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

it's true: things too tiny. And often barely readable.

[@hristostoev80]

it needs to gave a retrospective looping. Anything else feels old

[@TheJessovski]

need a tutorial for absolute begginers, dm me lol

[@SidBonkers51]

To fast too much jargon didnt understand a thing, guess I need a beginner type video.

[@HerrPapa]

Is it really just talking about that thing??? not even playing a single note??? maybe I'm wrong .... skipped through the whole piece very quickly after 5 Min...

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Wanted to but we weren’t able to this time. I agree the video would be better with a demo