zenAud.io ALK | What Is Arranged Live Looping?
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2018
- zenaud.io -- The art of live looping in the modern age. See how our fresh musical concept frees you from the restraints of the loop pedal. With arranged live looping the app follows your arrangement, pressing the necessary virtual pedals to arm tracks, trigger effects, and record and play loops at the right time.
zenAud.io ALK2 out now!
zenAud.io ALK is a cross between a sequencer and a looper. Like a traditional looper, clips are performed live and subsequently looped to create layers of sound. Like in a sequencer, the loops can be drawn, moved, copied, cut and pasted in a musical arrangement.
#livelooping #looppedal #songwriting - Hudba
Dang, you were ahead of your time. What a great innovation, and i really hope for a comeback in the future. I'd love to work on software like this.
How geniously amazing! Thank you for developing this, its what solo musicians needed for years!
I was planning to make live looping presentations with a lot of diferent sections and six diferent instruments. I was planning to spend a lot money with a lot of gear and ableton, and even with a lot of money invested it would be a head ache to achieve this. Then I discovered this software. It is easy, low cost and I have just to worry in playing the instruments. THIS IS GREAT.
The Windows version is here!!!
You guys just saved me $1,500 dollars on a Mac.
Great to hear! We believe there are many more like you. Happy to be supporting the Windows user-base
PLEASE PLEASE reactivate it for us? I loved ALK, and am now unable to use it :-( It was truly a game changer for an arranger like myself who works so well with the visual representation ALK provided.
Guys, I just discover your software. I just fell in love. A M A Z I N G.
Cant wait to try it on my CZcams Channel CapGirls!
This is a total game changer! Awesome!
Thank you!
Wow this is just what I've been looking for, so excited!!
It's amazing!
Thanks Stefano! We've just dropped you an email.
Any plans for a windows release?
Absolutely. We can't say exactly when but its a definite in our future plans.
I will happily beta test this when it becomes a windows program. I actually approach writing music very similarly within Ableton, and I could easily see this replacing that. Especially in a live context where I don't want to just hit play and have tracks pre-recorded. An audience that can see you building a song in real time becomes enthralled, and this program seems like such an elegant way of doing that.
Here's another vote for a Windows version
Yes please !
I'd totally be a beta tester for a windows version. Please make windows a priority!! :)
If anyone wins the lottery please pay this mans salary to continue development!
As a multi-instrumentalist, hardware pedals are too limiting with loop lengths, triggering, and mixing in pre-recorded bits. Software loopers require a sequencer to fully integrate a performance with external hardware. This looks amazing.
This software does exactly what I wish I could do with a hardware looper, without all the complications of a DAW like Ableton Live. Exactly what you need, and nothing you don't need. I've been looking for a solution like this for years, especially the ability to sync hardware effects pedals with the performance.
I will patiently await the Windows version, as I can't buy a Mac just for this one program. But I can see using this in my future.
Thank you Jeff! If all goes well, the Windows version will be available by the end of the year.
@@zenAudioGmbH I'd be interested in that Windows version also.
thats what Ive been looking for!
It must be very cool for live performances!
ALK2 is now also available for Windows -- zenaud.io
Anyone out there know how to get my hands on a Mac version of this?!?!!? I know the company is gone but someone has to have the Mac version they gave away for free without the Authorization Code right before they pulled the plug. What cool software.
If I win the lotto I am giving you a cool mil to finish this program. Only problem is I don’t play the lotto 😢
What to work with tempo for live perfomance? if the tempo is set advance, you need to use click for recoding.
Any plans for iOS devices? This is the program I've been thinking of writing for myself for the iPad Pro.
Hi Robert, thanks for your interest in ALK. We can definitely see a potential iOS version in our future. We can't exactly when that will release will be, but keep checking back!
zenAud.io I’d love that for my iPad Pro too! Please keep us in touch .
I would pay a lot for this on Ipad pro for sure....
great thx
Bring it to iOS please! 🙏🏼
how do i set the audio tracks to have riff 1 and riff 2 ? are these set to different inputs of ALK ? although the guitar uses the same input on my audio interface ? but when assigning a different input on the next track I can not hear the guitar ?? confusing did not find in the manual
I use several musical instruments, such as drums, guitar, bass, percussion. Besides the use of the program and the MAC, what equipment will be needed? audio card with several channels?
I wouldnt bother. The owner has given up on it. Just check his link to find out why.
What is the best input? I don't really do midi but from microphones (vocals and drums) and 1/4" cables (guitar/bass). Our keyboardist has midi control. Do I need a mixing board to bring it in?
Hi Ed, it depends if the keyboard makes its own sound. If so you can easily plug it into the jack input of your audio interface. If its a MIDI keyboard controller you can use software instruments in ALK.
Very great! Is an iOS version planned?
The example at 1:10 I can't tell if you're miming to a pre-recorded track, or if it's actually live - do you have any more real world examples of playing live using this (rather than in a home/studio setting?).
Yes we do! facebook.com/zenAudioGmbH/videos/725471050984751/
Hi! Can we drag backing tracks into this? that way we don't have to start from scratch at each new section (ie. verse to chorus)?
Yes, it’s possible. Only issue check with them if is still possible to autorhize the software
Cool. Any flexibility with on the fly changes?
Yes! You can set up song sections to repeat indefinitely until you press a pedal/button. You can also use MIDI control to jump around to different sections of the arrangement if you want to mix things up. Take a look: czcams.com/video/dAsB6hPE9fs/video.html
1) Can I quantize recorded audio in ALK2?
2) Can I use ALK2 like a plugin in my DAW?
Hi Tim, ALK quantizes MIDI but not audio, although we may look at that in the future. ALK is actually a DAW itself and hosts VST and AU plugins. It doesn't run as a plugin. Hope that helps
Ok, sounds promising. Now if you could implement an audio quantization and a rewire I would definitely buy it.
I'm subscribed for the newsletters so... waiting for the news.
good luck
This was great and then it fell off the face of the earth. Any plans to revive it?
Name of the song?
I Wanna Do Nothing by our product specialist Robin Fisher. It was specifically written for this video and unfortunately this is all there is.
I need the name song please! I need listen all the song!
I Wanna Do Nothing by our product specialist Robin Fisher. It was specifically written for this video and unfortunately this is all there is.
Any PsyTrance or Industrial demos?
windows version please
We're expecting to release ALK on Windows later this year
It's out now!!
I commend you for doing something different, but it seems confusing to me... One of the “cool things” about looping is the creative spontaneity it can offer. This seems 180 degrees from spontaneous. It’s like it combines the boringness of prebuilt backing tracks and the stress of needing to perform them perfectly... it’s like the worst of both worlds, unless I’m missing something...
Thanks for writing The Drümünkey. We spoke to a large amount for touring looping musicians throughout the development of ALK and when asked if they were creating roughly the same arrangements each concert almost all of them replied that they were. ALK has been specifically designed from the ground up to accommodate musicians who are writing songs with pre-arranged structures and to allow for looping arrangements that are simply not possible with the use of traditional loop pedals. Think of it as the old DJing with turntables vs. performing with Ableton Live paradigm. What we are creating here is an evolution of live looping that removes many of the previous limits. Some may prefer to use a pedal and that's totally fine. But for those wishing to do something more complex and hand off some technical duties to technology, this is where ALK steps in. A bit of spontaneity is totally possible in the set. Sections can be looped and musicians can jump between different sections of the arrangement with MIDI commands but overall ALK is a different beast than say a Boss RC300 and serves a different purpose.
Dude I totally agree with you this is like recording a whole song but having to remember the skeletal structure of the song. This allows for no spontaneity this software is actually ass. Like I might as well pre record everything and skip having to make sure I made sure each loop length was correct.... I'm seriously blown away at how lousy of a concept this actually is and cant wait to see a true looper daw take its place nice try though
Spending time and money on configuring my stuff to work with your product doesn't make any sense. Constant issues with 4 different types of Mac - issues with connecting audio interface, midi stuff (Ableton or NI) do not work, operating on tracks with mouse is not possible (when clicking a track settings is constantly opening). Even 100$ for this is too much. Have it since a few days and nah.. thanks, will go for another solution considering quite similar effect I can reproduce with my DAW without issues and too deep diving just to simply hear what I play. Work harded or give up as for now it is nothing but another "awesome" Berlin-based startup made by hipsters for hipsters. I bet you serve 'trambabula' and a kitchen full of Frtiz!cola for epmloyees, right?