Warp Looper is a performance looper in the spirit of a Guitar Looper pedal, expanded to six independent stereo loops and built to be driven hands-free from a MIDI foot controller through Reason’s Remote system.
Artists like Ed Sheeran and KT Tunstall have made the creative looping workflow world famous, and now this device brings that workflow to your Reason DAW setup.
The heart of the device is the ring display: six circular loops drawn as rings, like some modern loopers you may have seen on your ipad. Each ring shows its recorded waveform wrapped around the circle, a playhead sweeping as it plays, tick marks for its bars, and a colour-coded state indicator in the hub. Click a ring to select that track.
Important Information — read before your first session
Loop audio is NOT saved with your song. Version 1.0 cannot store or retrieve the audio in its loop buffers, because the Rack Extension SDK (the “Jukebox” SDK) provides no way for a device to persist recorded audio into a song or patch. When you close a song or delete the device, the loops are gone. All settings — knobs, switches, loop length, the mixer — are saved normally. If you record something you want to keep, record it into a track; route Warp Looper’s output to a track and record it in Reason like any other audio.
Changing the song tempo clears your loops in Bars mode. Loops are recorded at a fixed sample length. In Bars mode a tempo change would leave them out of step with the new grid, so the device fades them out and clears them. In Seconds mode loops survive tempo changes (they were never tied to the grid).
Stopping Reason’s transport stops all loops. So does a MIDI panic / reset. This is deliberate — the looper never plays on into silence when the song has stopped.
Output is limited to −0.5 dBFS. However many loops you stack, the final output is hard-clamped just below full scale to protect your ears and monitors. Stack thoughtfully anyway — clamping is not mastering.
You can record a lot of audio with this looper, but all of it goes away when you close the program. Hopefully this changes in version 1.1 of this looper, which is planned for when the Reason SDK starts supporting automatically created mutable user samples.
