Re: Ableton live looping with no hands

["Byron Howell" <howell.byron@gmail.com>]

Wow! Thankyou. Always step in with wise words you do.


Keep the groove

Byron

On 3/8/08, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Byron Howell <howell.byron@gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>
>  >  My question is in relation to this setup for ableton live.
>  >  I am running ableton live 6 on a macbook. I have my percussion going
>  >  through a m0audio project mix. My goals are to use ableton as a
>  >  livelooper for my percussion (drumset,congas,darbuka,
>  >  shakers.etc...The problem I have encountered is in regard to   the
>  >  clicking of midicontrollers to enable looping in ableton. I would 
>like
>  >  to setup a template in ableton to do the looping without having to
>  >  worry about footswitches or midi pads to record and loop segments of
>  >  my playing.
>
>
>
> Hi Byron,
>
>  If you enable an IAC Bus on the Mac you can have midi clips in Live
>  sending the controller data (through the IAC) for starting and
>  stopping recording of audio clips on other tracks. You could for
>  example set up a five minute midi clip that sends the correct commands
>  at the right moments. Or you could stack many such "controller data
>  MIDI clips" on a MIDI Track and set up a playlist for them by using
>  Clip Launch Follow Action scripts.
>
>
>  --
>  Greetings from Sweden
>
>  Per Boysen
>  www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>  www.looproom.com (international)
>
>