A version which runs within SuperCollider can be installed like so:
- Install SuperCollider
- open SuperCollider
- on Windows, you may need to run as administrator the first time
- In SuperCollider, run the line
Quarks.install("https://github.com/victor-shepardson/living-looper-sc")- (type it in a press shift+return)
- then run the line
LivingLooper.new- a LivingLooper window should appear
- Select your audio devices and press the "start audio" button
- this will prompt you to install
NN.arif not already installed
- this will prompt you to install
- See the
LivingLooperhelpfile to get started
- Locate the SuperCollider extension folder from the SuperCollider menu:
File -> open user support directory -> Extensions - Install SuperCollider plugins by placing them in this folder:
- NN.ar: https://github.com/elgiano/nn.ar/releases/tag/v0.0.6-updated
- download the zip file for your platform
- Living Looper: https://github.com/victor-shepardson/living-looper-sc/releases/tag/v1.1.1
- download the "Source Code" zip file
- NN.ar: https://github.com/elgiano/nn.ar/releases/tag/v0.0.6-updated
- In the SuperCollider menu select
Language -> reboot interpreter - then run the line
LivingLooper.new
Using export.py, you can create your own Living Looper models from an nn~ compatible (causal) encoder-decoder model, e.g. RAVE.
- bring your own pretrained RAVE model
- clone this repo and create a Python environment with
nn_tildeandpytorch - run your RAVE model through
export.pyto produce a living looper.tsfile
This project was presented at NIME 2023. The full paper is available here
A Living Looper instance includes a pretrained RAVE encoder-decoder and a living loop algorithm, both implemented with pytorch and exported as a TorchScript file. Plugins for music software define a real-time audio and GUI interface, but must load a .ts file which defines the sound and behavior.
You can make your own living looper .ts models from any nn~ compatible streaming encoder/decoder model (such as these) using the export.py script.
export.py - Python script which converts a RAVE model to a Living Looper model
living-looper-sc/ - SuperCollider Quark with GUI
living-looper-core/ - common components of C++ Living Looper plugins.
living-looper-juce/ - JUCE plugin (WIP, not functional at present)
This project incorporates RAVE, which uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
The plugin components including living-looper-sc and living-looper-juce are licensed under GPLv3.
As I understand it, the above affects what you can do with the source code, for example, publishing your own fork is allowed, but selling a VST based on it is not. You are free to do anything you want with the actual plugins and trained models, including making commercial art installations or music releases.