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# sketchbook: sooperlooping the rhodes
- URL: https://wootangent.net/sketchbook-sooperlooping-the-rhodes/
- Published: 2012-01-17T13:09:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T08:22:05.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Linux, Music, Sketchbook, ardour, jrhodes, sooperlooper, timemachine, vm1, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

Download [20120117.ogg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/42/8f/428f222b-5293-47dc-a763-0d524d3db42e/content/media/2026/10/20120117-9.ogg?ref=wootangent.net)

I'm starting the new year the right way this year -- with a sketch! It's just a rough, simple, improvised jam, captured using SooperLooper, but I love the mood that the sound of the Rhodes imparts, especially as more note sustain over the top of each other and intermingle. I put the Rhodes sound through a rotary speaker emulation (Calf's, in this case), and the melody part went my VM1 delay pedal, but it's otherwise free of processing. It doesn't really need much, anyway -- those high notes sustaining that are left at the end are just magic.

SooperLooper is great for capturing new track ideas, especially for the kind of music I make, which is often driven by repeating patterns. In the past I've started with a drum beat and recorded loops on top of that, but this time I went freestyle. The nanoKONTROL is great for controlling it -- I was able to add a bunch of empty loops, and map a separate fader and record button to each of them, making it easy to both record your loops and control their playback afterward. Once I had some appropriate loops I just played them all at the same time, using the faders to control their relative volumes while recording the output straight in to JACK Timemachine.

I don't know if this sketch will go any further than this, but with some glitchy drums, some additional synth parts, and a bit more complexity (like, more than two chords), I think it could work as a track.

[mp3](https://storage.ghost.io/c/42/8f/428f222b-5293-47dc-a763-0d524d3db42e/content/media/2026/10/20120117-2.mp3?ref=wootangent.net) | [vorbis](https://storage.ghost.io/c/42/8f/428f222b-5293-47dc-a763-0d524d3db42e/content/media/2026/10/20120117-11.ogg?ref=wootangent.net) | 2:51