POLAR: Performance Oriented Loop Audio Recording

Inspired by the classic Echoplex tape delay effect, POLAR™ stands for "Performance Oriented Loop Audio Recording". POLAR allows you to continuously loop-record vocal stacks, beat-boxing, guitar, or pretty much anything. Watch POLAR in action as MOTU product Specialist Dave Roberts records vocals in the studio.

POLAR provides many options to facilitate real-time interaction with DP, allowing you to record ideas quickly and spontaneously. POLAR provides a seductive form of interactive loop-recording that produces results you might never have imagined. Be prepared to lose track of time as you explore interactive layers upon layers.

For truly amazing looped effects, try changing the length of the record loop between passes. Now try loops of odd lengths repeating against each other. (3 bars against 7, anyone?) The results can be mind-blowing. When you're done, hit Export to place the entire POLAR session into your Digital Performer project timeline for further comping, editing, processing and mixing.

[matrixate]

POLAR really simplifies this common process with the gate feature for a "hands-free" session. Awesome!

[zedxxx]

Thanks for the improved MOTU video intro, and for reminding me that I should be using POLAR for recording my guitar solos and numerous other things.

[lanceabair]

Dave, this video support is outstanding.

[TheInvisibleMen]

I no longer use DP but, all I can say is WOW!!

[calleenmusicchannel]

How does one mute the incoming audio to polar? I hear the signal through zero latency hardware mixer. I want to run polar and not hear what's going in just what has already been in recorded to the loop.