Gauss Field Looper

Tape loops in your pocket

Published by: Bram Bos
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Co-designed with Berlin-based electronic musician Hainbach, Gauss brings the oldschool tape-looping art form to mobile devices. This creative field looper works both standalone and as an Audio Unit effect plugin and puts the possibilities of using looped tapes in your hands. Without the need for scissors.
Like real tape loops Gauss takes you off the grid of your DAW: you can adjust tape speed and direction, even during recording. The flow of your loops will drift organically as the tape follows its own cyclical timeline. 
Use overdub, or even multiple instances of the Audio Unit plugin, to create multi-layered ever changing sonic palettes.
We want this app to be a celebration of digital audio technology, so when audio quality is degraded it will do so in a pleasingly crunchy digital way. For example, recording on low tape speeds will give you longer recording time, but at the cost (or pleasure) of a distinctively lower recording quality. So Gauss mimics the behaviour - not the sound - of magnetic tape.
Set the length of the tape, record and overdub your audio, play around with tape speeds; Gauss captures the essence of two ends of tape stuck together in all its unsynchronised, free-running glory. There's even a unique built-in 4-step polyrhythmic sequencer for sequencing tape-speed changes.
- designed as a standalone field recorder and an Audio Unit effect plugin (AUv3) in one package
- universal app: plugin and standalone work on all iDevices, iOS11 and higher
- variable tape speed; seamlessly change direction and speed during playback or recording
- 4-step sequencer lets you trigger (polyrhythmic) tape-speed changes in sync with your host tempo
- variable inertia for the tape drive motors (from instant to very slow speed changes)
- built-in multi-mode filter with LFO modulation
- delay effect with optional host-sync mode
- “1989” mode uses a special 8 bit/11KHz tape head for a last-century vintage digital sound
- 45 seconds maximum loop size at 1x speed, proportionally longer at lower speeds (.e.g 90 seconds at half speed, etc.)
- overdub at any speed or tape direction
- plugin supports global cross-host preset handling (requires iOS13+, compatible AUv3 host)
Find the user manual at ruismaker.com
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4.58 out of 5

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Very useful sample manipulator

dimes4times on

Australia

I'm still using this a lot, thanks for keeping it up to date and compatible with iOS

iPad too?

neilmacMac on

Australia

i paid and installed it on my iphone and then went to install on my iPad and Apple is asking me to purchase again!

Boom

needitformyep on

Australia

Another Bram Bos home run.

Seems to crash when I plug in an external mic

cunty cunterman on

Australia

Can’t figure out what’s going on but when I plug and external mic into my iPad, the GUI disappears and I have to restart the app

Bram is…read below

Project: Punk Mayhem (Farabi) on

United States

The uncrowned King of this Kingdom! All hail the King! On your knees Daug!

Great for iphone

EthanGross on

United States

awesome little lofi effects sampler that mimics tape. pretty neat

Huge update

capedape on

United States

Sample import makes this already great app 10x as great.

Creative options!

anickt on

United States

So much you can do with this!

Cool app - UI uselessly small on iPhone

Get punched on

United States

Really like what this app does. Pretty intuitive and satisfying. But the UI is so irritatingly small that it seems rolling this out on tablets-only would have made more sense. It’s 4 years old so I can only imagine it hasn’t had enough adoption to put time into another UI update. Bummer. Could see this as a bonus auxiliary tool in live sets but not as it is now.

Great buy why can’t you load loops in standalone?

Justin032 on

United States

This app is killer as an audio unit in AUM but why is there no simple way to load loops from AudioShare or another method in standalone? If this is some “purist” decision to only serve as a field recorder it’s a bit ridiculous….

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