 Hey, it's Rob. Today. We're gonna be looking at the looper and drum machine functions on perform VE Let's dive into it First thing we're gonna do is make a cool sample synth sound that we can loop on the perform VE So I'll just take a quick sample Just add some reverb it next up. Let's figure out which drum sounds we want to use for our loop The way you access the drum sounds on V is through the looper button on the bottom left corner here There's the kick and in the bottom right corner. There's the snare and when the loopers activated The headphone button triggers the hi-hat sound the kick in the snare and the perform VE both have four samples Which we can access by holding down either button. So let's hold down the kick and go through the different kick sample options I really like the third one. It's kind of punchy. So let's use that and for the snare There's a clap. I'm gonna use the clap for this and there's only one hi-hat sample It's just a classic sounding 808 or 909. It sounds really good. So you don't need more than one next up Let's record a quick drum loop One thing that's really cool about the looper and perform VE is that it allows you to record a one bar drum loop and then Add a multi bar chord progression over top of it Whereas on other loopers you'd have to record as many bars of drums as you want of chords. So let's do that We're gonna record a drum loop So we arm the looper by just pressing the loop button and you know It's armed when it's flashing and then as soon as we press one of the drum notes Then it'll start recording the loop. I don't really like that snare bit So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna delete just the snare We can pause the looper by pressing the tap button, which is what I did there in order to delete any of the drum voices Or just the loop you can do that by holding the set button and pressing which part of it You want to delete in this case? I just want to delete the snare. So I'm just gonna hold set and press snare I'll play the loop so you can hear it happen So now the snare is gone next. Let's loop the sample synth patch we made One really cool feature that the perform Vee has is a sidechain compressor built-in The sidechain compressor is linked to the kick on the perform Vee So whenever the kick fires it compresses whatever else is playing So if I have a pad using the vocal sample synth Or if I have another synth that's plugged in using the aux input the sidechain compressor will Compress that or make it kind of duck in volume whenever the kick goes I'll show this just using the loop we made Firmware 2.0 adds the ability to loop the auxiliary input on the perform Vee Meaning that any instrument like this that you put through it can be used with the sidechain compressor and with the looper Today, we're gonna be using the deep mine 12 from Bairnger. We're gonna be adding some synth bass and some pads Let's just start by adding some bass to our loop Different instruments or synths or drum machines and you want to combine them all the Vee's a great way to do that Vee's also a great way to supplement a live performance with synths at this price Just the perform Vee's looper and drum machine make it worth it And that's not even touching the sample synthesizer and all the other vocal effects that it has that last loop was a really Standard example of something you'd use a looper for let's try something that's a little bit more experimental This is gonna be just a really short loop and the goal of it is to create kind of an interesting Background texture under what I'm going to be playing on the deep mind. Let's just go into this I'm gonna make a really short loop. You'll see Bands like Radiohead use technique I just want to mention Radiohead in the video. Tom York notice me Bands like Radiohead have been using looping techniques like this for years where they'll create a really short textural thing and then play It underneath whatever the rest of their song is and it just fills out the mix a little bit And that's another thing that you can do with the looper and drum machine on the Vee The looper on perform Vee also allows you to quantize it to MIDI clock or tap tempo You can toggle this on and off by pressing the tap and set buttons at the same time So when the ring lights up solid green, then it's unquantized and When it lights up kind of dotted then it's quantized Quantization on the Vee locks into the nearest sixteenth note Meaning that if you play a drum note when quantization is on and it's just a little bit off the beat The Vee will knock it into the nearest beat Which can really help if you're having trouble getting your drum loop synced to tempo or You need them to be synced with another instrument that you have connected with MIDI to the Vee Quantization just makes the Vee way more versatile when it's playing along with other instruments or when you're working with the digital audio workstation Above all else the looper on perform Vee is fun Accessible and inspiring It's super easy for beginners to get into or for more advanced players And it's got a lot of features that set it apart from other loopers like the drum machine or the sidechain compressor Thanks for watching if you haven't already pick up or perform Vee from your local dealer