Enso Looper 4+

Real-time audio looper

Audio Damage, Inc.

    • 4.4 • 5 Ratings
    • $19.99

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Description

*** PLEASE READ ****
Enso is an AudioUnit V3 plugin; it requires an AUv3 host like Cubasis, Garageband, AUM, etc. THERE IS NO STANDALONE APP; it is only a container for the AUv3.

An architecturally unique and sonically characterful looping toolkit for producers and live performers, inspired by both modern looper pedals and vintage tape-based setups, Enso combines elegant and intuitive UI design with a deep but accessible feature set and stellar sound quality.

Enso’s operation will be immediately familiar to users of hardware looper pedals or plugins such as Ableton Live’s bundled Looper. Start playback of the host DAW, hit Enso’s record button and capture your instrumental performance into a loop of whatever length you like, up to ten minutes (five minutes on iOS). Then, without stopping playback, overdub further passes to create layered grooves, complex harmonic textures, or dense, evolving soundscapes.

Beyond those basics, though, Enso takes software looping into new territory. Two Overdub modes configure the plugin for conventional looper pedal behaviour or Frippertronics-style ‘dual tape deck’ manoeuvres, affecting the handling of the Feedback parameter for an endless range of layering possibilities; and up to four Sectors can be effortlessly defined, each with its own start and end points, for on-the-fly rearrangement of the loop.

With Enso, time and motion become truly fluid, as speed and direction are handled completely independently for playback and recording, the ‘through-zero’ bipolar Speed controls smoothly transitioning from forwards to backwards, and vice versa, in real time. Want to record forwards at half speed, while simultaneously playing the buffered loop in reverse at 1.25x? Of course you do…

Onboard tape-style saturation, filtering and chorus effects bring dirt, frequency-shaping and stereo thickening to the party; and a comprehensive MIDI assignment system makes it a snap to set your MIDI pedal or button controller up for operation of all Enso’s buttons and switches. With its animated play and record heads, meanwhile, the looping waveform display provides a clean, clear visual representation of the potentially mind-bending temporal acrobatics taking place, letting you get a handle on exactly what’s happening at a glance.

Giving you everything you need for limitlessly creative looping, on stage and in the studio, Enso is one of Audio Damage’s most beautifully realized plugins yet, and an empowering addition to any musician’s arsenal of effects

What’s New

Version 1.2.9

A fix for the Xcode 15 bug that prevented Enso from working in iOS 15 and prior.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
5 Ratings

5 Ratings

JRJulius ,

Amazing creative tool

As a longtime user of the EHX Hazarai looper and a recent convert to the Red Panda Tensor, “creative” looping is a major part of my workflow. Enso is amazingly powerful and once you get a hang of the workflow it opens up a TON of oddball possibilities. Stability seems to suffer even with one instance in GarageBand or when you get multiple instances running in AUM or Audiobus, but if you only run one instance in a reliable host it’s an amazing piece of kit for an unbeatable price.

FrankPaul1878 ,

I wanted to love this thing but…

There is a serious bug with this thing that caused me to give up on it entirely, and that is this horribly intrusive audio popping/clicking, either when using the Sectors tool to switch between sectors within a loop, or switching between FWD and REV playback modes within the same sector. I was initially hopeful that using x-fades between sectors might resolve the issue, but that was only a partial success. To be honest, I’m scratching my head trying to understand how a glitch this bad could escape the attention of the developers before commercializing the product. In all other respects, Enzo *looks* like a great tool, but looks alone are not enough; the audio quality needs to be top-notch as well, and in my experience, it isn’t with this app. I was also disappointed that a week after sending a tech support query to the developer, they have not responded. I would not recommend Enso to a friend.

Suldren ,

It’s great

Pretty cool. Seriously though, who uses GarageBand lol

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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