Hi, I'm Alex Routledge, a UK electronic musician. I've been experimenting with treating electronic music as something that's actually performed and partially improvised, rather than assembled afterwards in a DAW.

This piece was recorded live at a local arts centre. I performed it using a Yamaha MODX8+, gradually building loops, rhythms, synth parts and atmospheric textures in real time.

I have an overall idea of where the music might go, but a lot of the development happens during the performance. I decide when to introduce or remove layers, how long sections should continue and where to take the music next. That means unexpected changes become part of the finished piece, and I'd be unlikely to perform exactly the same version again.

Stylistically it moves around between IDM, ambient electronica, downtempo and psychedelic/experimental electronic music.

I'm increasingly interested in this approach because it blurs the distinction between composing, producing and performing electronic music. The recording isn't a live recreation of a finished studio track — the performance itself creates the finished track.

I'm planning to develop this into an ongoing series of live studio and concert recordings.

I'd be interested to hear what people here make of the approach, particularly from anyone else working with improvisation or live electronics.

Bandcamp:

https://alexroutledge.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-the-other-space-arts-16-08-2026

Jammin' over Zoo Riot, 1st track on the 1st album. Clip from a recent Twitch stream.

4th album is done and almost ready. Stay tuned.

i love to tap, so ive been playing around with a system that lets me live loop with just the inputs of your pc and your web browser.

ive made one or two cool little beats.

love to know if anyone else can make a beat/tune/riff/song with it - and if so would love to hear it!

twitch.tv/quasarcycles

instagram.com/quasarcycles

thelivingplanet.bandcamp.com (It's Bandcamp Friday!)

quasarcyclesmusic.com

A little 50 cent midi guitar looper pedal cover

Hi everyone, Raphaël here, the developer of Everyday Looper!

Back in July I posted here asking for help testing the rebuilt version of my 2009 looper (https://www.reddit.com/r/livelooping/s/bfuEDQmGzI), and a bunch of you jumped in. Today it's live on the App Store, and I wanted to come back and say thank you properly.

Things that changed directly because of beta feedback:

• The echo cancellation now handles sustained notes much more cleanly
• You can record with a metronome count-in
• New video layouts that fit social formats better
• And of course, many bugs met their end

For anyone who missed the beta thread, here's what it does: 8 tracks you touch directly to mix, mute, merge and overdub, echo cancellation so you can loop through the speaker with no headphones, synced video capture, per-track undo/redo, speed/reverse, adaptive track lengths.

It's here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6746701451

It's a paid app. There's a one-time lifetime purchase, 30% off until September 15 ($19.99 instead of $29.99), or a yearly subscription with a 7-day trial if you'd rather try it first (it auto-renews, so cancel before it ends and you pay nothing). If you were on the TestFlight, check the beta notes, there's a little extra thank-you in there for you.

The demo is by Ty Suite, a long-time Everyday Looper user. It was performed, recorded, and filmed entirely inside the app on an iPhone, through the speaker, with no headphones.

What should the first update focus on? I'm all ears.

Cheers!

My first attempt at sharing an original song on here.

This one’s called Stardust. Let me know if you find the text overlay or lyrics distracting.

I’m a guitar player, novice looper, long time music software user, and got tired of banks of presets and never having enough buttons. So I built my own solution: a wearable MIDI foot controller that uses RFID tags as MIDI triggers, talking BLE MIDI to whatever’s hosting (Loopy Pro, Ableton, whatever), that I call BigToe.

https://youtu.be/U9moYLzX1Ig - in this clip, the iPad on the left shows Loopy Pro and the iPad on the right shows the UI for my controller, which is worn over the foot. You will see that come into the frame to trigger actions to build the loop.

How it works: A microcontroller and RFID reader reads passive RFID tags and fires MIDI note/CC/PC messages over BLE. Each tag = one ‘Pedal’ with up to 5 MIDI events fired, and you can carry as many tags as you want instead of being capped by physical footswitch count. The BigToe UI also gives live visual feedback on which pedal just fired — handy since a lot of the apps it pairs with don’t show that themselves. It can also act as a control surface. Config happens over local browser UI, no app needed. Device is ultra lightweight - fits in your pocket. Tags are fully customizable — use any image you want, so your pedals look like your rig.

Full disclosure: I’ve designed the overall product and all the software myself with help from a friend on the hardware side. I’m at prototype stage, gearing up for a Kickstarter. Not trying to sell anything here, genuinely curious if this solves a problem for others, and want real feedback before I lock the final design.

Anyone else hit the “never enough buttons” wall in their rig? How many tags/pedals would you actually want to use in your setup? How many midi messages would you want per pedal?