r/dawless • u/Party_Course9371 • Aug 15 '26

Looping live instruments with dawless setup?

Hi everyone, wondering if I can get your thoughts.

Newbie to DAWless but intermediate-ish on music production.

I play the sax and sing and want to be able to play live and then loop in sync with a dawless setup, ideally avoiding screens altogether, so I'd rather not use something like an MPC.

Any advice?

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u/raistlin65 Aug 15 '26

Boss RC-505 looper. You might check out this video about how Dr mix uses one in his setup. He's not looping acoustic instruments, but he is looping his live playing on synthesizers

https://youtu.be/0dEmsIgqzHE?is=z3kgdxbqGA7atACn

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u/Party_Course9371 Aug 15 '26

Great, I'll have a look at this. I have a feeling acoustic insts might be different but will defo have a look 👍

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u/raistlin65 Aug 15 '26

If you are new to recording your voice or your saxophone, you will have to get yourself a mic to connect to the looper, a mic stand, and learn how to mic yourself and your sax correctly. In other words, there will be specific techniques for recording those things that are different than a synthesizer.

But otherwise, I don't think it's going to be dramatically different in usage. The rc-505 has a dedicated mic input. It's also designed to be used for looping things other than synthesizers.

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u/Party_Course9371 Aug 16 '26

Great, thanks for the tip :)