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InstantSampler takes samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time.
Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length).
When you play the sampled fragments, you have the possibility to vary the following:
velocity – Playback [...]

SoundFX is a 12 track real time mixer designed for live performance. I wrote a 4 minute piece in Logic Pro 7, and then bounced it down in to several component parts (drums, bass, leads, ambient). Each bounce was a 16 second loop which could then be loaded into a separate track on the mixer.
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Kerrstinn is a VST plugin that changes your loops randomly with both moving slices of it around and or applying effects to the slices according to rules that we call generators. It is sort of an automatic controllable recallable loop slicer.
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http://www.shuriken.se (1026 clicks)

Get nuts with the Wii remote and your loops..
The Wii Loop Machine is a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time.
It uses the aka.wiimote object for Max/MSP by Masayuki Akamatsu.
Download it, unzip it, and follow the directions in the patch (it will probably take [...]

The Blob Player is a standalone max/msp patch sample looper/manipulator. This has a couple of annoying bugs with saving and reloading presets but here it is anyway. Some Help included.
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http://www.lewiskeller.com (1522 clicks)
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FreeWheeling is an audio tool for live looping. It provides a highly configurable, fluid user interface for instrumentalists to capture loops in real-time.
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http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net/ (1091 clicks)

AudioUnit featuring 8 Simultaneous independant tapeloops, from 0.1s to 16s.
Write, erase, solo and set volume on any tapeloop invididually (ie you dont have to start again if you mess up). Built in metronome.
Total re-write, now has proper Cocoa GUI and works fine in Logic Audio and also Apple’s AULab hosts. Should work in all other [...]

The Guid Machine is a Step Sequencer combined with a sample player. The Step sequencer has 4 X 16 steps while the sample player can load 4 samples simultanuously. Nothing new so far, but what makes the GUIdMachine special are a few unique features.
First of all you can easily shift any of the sequences [...]

8 channel loop livetool software built with Max/MSP by Apparat.
http://www.apparat.net/ (3103 clicks)

Moduloop™ is a standalone sound mangling/manipulation tool made using MAX/MSP, specifically geared towards users of drum loops – there is, however, no limitation as to what grooves you decide to moduloop! You can import any wav or aiff file, although the program works best on predefined loops of audio, as it syncs the BPM of [...]

picnicRCY (Patcher/OSX collective)
Just check it out.. a nice slicer, looper..
http://www.audiooo.com/jp/freestuff/index.html (3024 clicks)

lloopp is a software written in max/msp, designed for live-improvising on a macintosh.
lloopp is freeware, open source, please note its copyleft.
lloopp is written by musicians who use this very software for their performances.
anybody who is into max-programming is invited to join in.
refer to the .help-section for building new patches and use ( lloopp [...]

burn toast pluggo is an automated looping plug-in.
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http://www.audibleoddities.com/twerk/index.php?p=sof (1117 clicks)

It’s a looper… Made to emulate the Jam Man or DL-4 – but also generate a click track so it could be used with a drummer live. It is designed to work with Ableton Live or any other VST host such as Plogue Bidule for live performance.
The idea came after seeing a few Joseph [...]

Luppo1 is a AU / VST / RTAS looper, slicer, pitch change & tempo delay plugin.
Load a loop, change tempo+pitch and trig it with MIDI notes.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3153 clicks)

Mix is an experimental graphical real time audio loop mixing app inspired by AudioPad. This is an early prototype and I’d appreciate any feedback on how to improve it.
http://dekorte.com/projects/freeware/Mix/ (284 clicks)

The Butcher is an audio slicer geared towards realtime improvisation. When you record audio into the Butcher (you can also drag and drop a file into the interface) the audio is sliced into sections using one of three algorithms. These slices are then immediately mapped to notes on your MIDI keyboard controller. You can manipulate [...]

sample player / sequencer
Scramble is a programm made with Max/MSP. It is run by using samples and tweaking out how the speed of the sample is played to make almost an entirely new sound. This software is to be used with care as some of the tweaking of samples can distort the sound even possibly [...]

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Autocrap is a sampling machine that is listening to the sound in of your computer. It records it into some buffers that are played creating various layers of sounds. The pitch and panning of the sound depends on the movement of a random object that keeps wandering around on screen and you can [...]

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The Tree is a system where sounds can be placed on different nodes in a 1 to 16 branching tree structure. Thus, there are 31 sounds that can play subjected to varying degree of control and randomness. The system is built up such that it can easily be modified for different uses.

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micWorld is an application in which 3D environments are used to organize sounds and their attributes. There are 8 sound objects in the world which can be moved around by keyboard commands, joystick or by the mouse. These sound objects are silent until the microphone, also controlled by the user, comes near to [...]

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Lauki is an instrument whose visual qualities define the musical outcome. It consists of a grid of many hundred identical small boxes which trigger a looping sound when clicked on. By importing custom sounds, you are able to use Lauki as a palette where sounds are set into looping patterns in different frequencies [...]

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Slicer allows you to create rhythms and textures from any sound you like.
Import your sound and move the nodes. Slicer will chop your sound into 8 slices and superpose them. The slices will be created and manipulated acording to some variables that you can control with the control nodes (the ones represented by [...]

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A simple interface to modify playback of samples and record the results as a new audio file. Includes a sample loop player with variable envelope, playback speed, and dynamic filtering.

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SooperLooper is a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more. It allows for multiple simultaneous multi-channel loops limited only by your computer’s available memory. The feature-set and operation was inspired by the impressive Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro (EDP). When used with a low-latency audio configuration SooperLooper is [...]

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I Am The Mighty Jungulator is a groundbreaking audio engine which fuses DJ, synthersizer and sampler into one real time instrument. The user can Manipulate audio samples simultaneously, moulding them like putty, whilst the Jungulator keeps them in perfect time. It also has sophisticated generative algorithms that allow the software to take creative [...]

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Another Live Audio Looper from Echotone done in MAX/MSP

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Live Audio Looper with effects + MIDI support

OUTI has been created for live shows, it will allow you to record and playback four audio loops in real time, plus a granular recording and treatement.
You’ll be able to control loop points, playback speed, volume, to use VSTplug-ins…
All parameters can be assigned to a MIDI controller thanks to the MIDI learn function.
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http://www.tinytool.org/ [...]