LooperCat v0.9.3 — the slot editor starts, any WAV lands on the pedal, and
Windows joins
The slot editor begins
The pane under the table has two tabs now: Audio — the waveform and
transport you already know — and Properties, where the selected slot is set
up. ⌘I flips between them.
Properties holds:
- Name — twelve characters, in a field exactly twelve characters wide,
because that is what the pedal's display holds. - Tempo — with the bar count that follows from it shown before you commit.
LooperCat writes tempo and bars together, the arithmetic the pedal skips when
it imports a loop. - Play Count-In and One Shot — see below.
This is the first step of a memory editor: settings arrive here one at a time,
as each is verified against real hardware, rather than as a wall of fields
copied out of the file format.
Play Count-In
The pedal plays one measure of count at the slot's tempo, then the loop — a
backing track is stage-ready without walking the pedal's menus. It is the
pedal's own PLAY COUNT; the separate REC COUNT (a count before recording)
is a different setting and is not touched.
Set it in Properties, and if you want it visible at a glance, keep it as a
table column (Settings → Columns). If the slot carries a rhythm pattern you
picked on the pedal, the card says beforehand what the switch will do: a silent
rhythm section is what the count borrows, while a groove that is actually
playing is left alone — the count simply joins it.
Any WAV, converted on the way in
Push a file straight from your DAW: LooperCat converts it to the format the
RC-5 actually wants — sample rate, bit depth, channel layout, header bytes —
instead of refusing it or leaving something the pedal will not index. A 24-bit
48 kHz bounce becomes a loop the pedal plays.
Settings, and a table you choose
The gear moved to the top row and opens the app's settings: Audio (which
interface the preview plays through) and Columns (which behaviour lamps the
slot table shows — One Shot on out of the box, Play Count-In waiting to be
asked for). The right-click menu is operations only now: push, pull, clear.
Disconnect is all it takes
Leaving STORAGE makes the pedal re-read its memory — verified on hardware for a
rename, a tempo change and a trim, none of which needed a power cycle. The app
says "Disconnect to hear it" instead of sending you to the wall plug.
Fixes
- LooperCat reads the bank the pedal itself counts as newest, so the slot list
cannot show yesterday's state (#37). - The preview says when the pedal will time-stretch a slot, instead of leaving
you to wonder why your tempo change is not audible (#29).
Windows, for the first time
LooperCat ships for Windows in this release: a single portable exe in a zip —
no installer, no admin rights, no VC++ redistributable. Unzip anywhere and run.
Connect, the slot table, listening, trimming and every write work as they do on
the Mac.
It is not code-signed yet, so the first launch of a downloaded build meets
SmartScreen — More info → Run anyway, once. A signing certificate is on the
way; the guide says the same in its first-run section. macOS builds are signed
and notarized as usual.