Live recording into tidal - getting audio input working

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Hmmm this is not how it will work. I'll try to illustrate a procedure that should work.

First things first: Did you execute the SuperCollider code in Looper.scd (https://github.com/thgrund/tidal-looper/blob/master/Looper.scd)?

Then you should try the following code and see if the recording works and keep it running:

d1 $ stack [
    s "looper" # n "<0 1 2 3>",
    s "loop" # n "[0,1,2,3]",
    s "808 cp!3"
]

Now I try to explain what's happened with your code.

Basically you control the recording with the pattern with s "looper". This will record a sample under the name loop.

This records a buffer with a length of one cycle:

d1 $ s "looper"

And this records a buffer with a length of four cycle:

d1 $ slow 4 $ s "looper"

When the pattern starts from the beginning, the previous recording is overwritten.

The function once just plays one cycle of a pattern (https://tidalcycles.org/once). This will immediately starts a recording and stops it automatically after one cycle:

once $ s "looper"

And you determine everything via pattern therefore the following is equivalent to once $ s "looper" because 0 is the default input port:

once $ s "looper" # linput "0"

So much for the recording. Playback is separated from this and a recorded sample works just like any other sample.

This means that the recording starts from the beginning after each cycle with this pattern:

d1 $ s "loop"

And this starts the sample after four cycles:

d1 $ slow 4 $ s "loop"

So if you record a recording of the length of one cycle, then a playback pattern of the length one is sufficient to hear a result.

I hope I could help :slight_smile:

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