GRIM

The Problem

Hardware loopers are dependable and rigid: they land where you tell them, but a song with four distinct sections means fighting the pedal for three of them. Software loopers are flexible and nervous — they can do anything, right up until the one night the timing slips and you are standing in front of people rescuing it with the mouse.

GRIM organises loops into scenes, so a song's sections are named things you move between rather than banks you count in your head. It lives inside REAPER because that is where the rest of the rig already is — the same session, the same routing, the same plugins — and because a laptop I already trust on stage beats another piece of hardware in the case.

Key Features

• Scenes, not banksA song's sections are named and laid out, so you move to the chorus rather than remembering which slot it landed in
• Transitions land on the beat you asked forChange scenes whenever you like; the switch happens at the next bar, or wherever you set it, not the instant your foot lands
• As many tracks per scene as the machine will carryGRIM sets no limit of its own; REAPER and your CPU set the real one
• Runs on the controller you already ownAny MIDI foot controller maps to it, so nothing new goes in the case
• Inside your existing sessionSame tracks, same routing, same plugins — GRIM is a layer on the session, not a separate world to move audio into
• Tested where it mattersEvery version of this has been used in front of an audience before it went anywhere near a release

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Licensing

GRIM is commercial, proprietary software — licensed, not sold. Music you make with GRIM is yours, and no royalty is owed on it.