Re: Is it Ableton Live - or is it me?

["Joshua Carroll" <josh@infinivert.com>]

Excellent!  Man, I wish I could get in there and watch how you set that up
and use it.  My imagination is going crazy, but at this point my brain
still feels a bit overloaded.  Much studying left to do!

Thanks!

--Josh



>> A. "AUTO BPM DETECT"
>
> If I understand it right what you want to do, it seems to be an issue 
>that
> our own Rick Walker has carried to Ableton more than once...to no avail.
> If
> you want to record something in Live, you have to set a tempo first.
> Workaround: use a looping plugin in Live.
>
>> B. SHORTCUT KEYS FOR "RECORD HIGHLIGHTED LOOP NOW"
> Frankly, this hasn't been an issue for me because I use Mobius for all 
>the
> "classical" looping stuff - Live works both as a host for me and as a
> sample/MIDI clip recorder in its own right. But if I want to record
> something, it's arming that track (which I do using my BCR2000), 
>selecting
> the scene (using two switches on my FCB1010) as you suggested, and then
> pressing "play" on the respective track (which takes up one switch per
> track
> - spanning two banks of my FCB1010).
>
> And then Jushua Carroll asked:
> "Is anyone here actually using Mobius with Live?"
>
> As Per already pointed out, some of us do - one of them is me.
>
> My current setup: half the tracks of Mobius are fed to one channel of 
>Live
> each. There are different Quantize and Sync setups for the Mobius track
> pairs (combinations of No Quantize, No Sync and Quantize to Cycle, Sync 
>to
> Host Beat). Each of the Live channels for Mobius has its dedicated 
>channel
> strip containing EQ3, CompressorI, MadShifta, Scrubby and SupaTrigga.
>
> There's one MIDI track which routes the input from my FCB1010 (of which
> three banks are dedicated to control Mobius; the bank layout is like: 0 -
> tap tempo, metronome, scene up/down etc., 1,2 - start clip, 3,4 - stop
> clip,
> 5-7 - Mobius, 8 - Mobius main functions combined with EXP assignment for
> Amplitube, 9 - Amplitube).
>
> I use Mobius for all the more advanced looping things (meaning tracks
> where
> I want to be out of sync with the beat, overdub, reverse, insert or
> whatever
> cool possibilities there are) and Live for everything "record it and then
> let it play without messing with it" (except for any plugins on the track
> which mess with it), and of course for everything MIDI.
>
>       Rainer
>
>