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Re: live looping with ableton live
On 4 jul 2007, at 16.17, nico spahni wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their helpful comments. Reading your posts
> I'm beginning to wonder what the added value to a new setup
> (including Live) would be.
>
> My current looping setup includes SL and Augustus Loop hosted in
> RAX (plus a number of quirky plugins) and controlled via FCB1010. I
> guess I should add that I mainly loop myself and can't do too much
> knob tweaking because I need to pluck a string every now and then :-).
>
> What additional benefits would the combination SL, Augustus Loop
> and Live have in stall for me?
Short answer: More fun.
Long answer:
You may have fun with Live's excellent effect plug-ins. You may have
fun with Live's excellent audio routing capability. You may have fun
with Live's excellent MIDI routing capability; especially if you want
to get into binding MIDI clips to your pedals and put the MIDI events
for loop control inside those clips. This opens up for designing your
own "presets" for sequences of looper actions (just one example:
press one pedal button to set the loop to reverse and overdub for one
bar and then return from reverse and stop overdubbing).
As said by others in this thread Live works best as a looper plug-in
host if not synced. So you'd better bind one MIDI pedal to Live's
Tap Tempo function. Then to "kick-start" looping: kick four steady
pulses on that button and keep on with the fifth kick hitting the
pedal you have assigned to overdub or record (depending on which
looping plug-in you're using).
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)