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Re: live looping



In a message dated 8/19/2007 8:32:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, maksaint@gmail.com writes:
Hi people...

  I would like to know how I can do live looping with ableton live 
like I do with the pedal Boss RC-20XL..
I mean, when i do a loop with the RC-20XL, I dont have any metronome 
to follow and he assume the first loop like the master loop, so all 
the loops that i do after will be synchronized with the first one... 
but with the ableton live I cant do this...

Please let me know...

thanks...

Marco
Marco
Forgive me as I am not at all familiar with the RC-20XL. Every sample you record in live, as long as you have the metronome turned on, will record and playback in sync. Naturally you have to set up your global preferences if you want to record midi. If you want to make all your loops identical in length, simply create and save the appropriate empty multiple clip view settings ahead of time. Of course you have to arm all the tracks and map your midi controls with respect to the saved set ahead of time too. You can even create clip view envelope templates to make life expressly easy for preprogramming's sake.
 
Here's a cool trick: Create a 4-5 scene multi track session view with the above described method. Drag and select all your scenes at once and select copy from the drop down menu. Now, create a division immediately following (below) your 4-5 scene set. You can do this by highlighting the last scene's master play box. Choose and select "insert scene". Now, starting right after the blank scene, drag and highlight the area required to fill the above scene grouping and then select "paste". You may even be able to just duplicate the whole nine yards and then split it via the insert scene command. Then set up the "follow actions" to suite you however is best and you can also tweak up your warp settings. What this will set you up for is a wild harmony ride via your transpose controls or a little beat mangle tragedy to keep it all interesting. I really just depends on what your after.
 
So the only time you need touch your laptop is to load different sets, if even then. That being because since you can use the insert scene trick just as easily to create & divide different session view loop planets ahead of time to land on (all together different than the last batch - new song - whatever) via your midi foot controller or keyboard. You can pre-create hours of loopotomy inducing madness all in the same set!
 
BTW, you can always set up your percussion track's clips ahead of time to act as "master loops" You can even create pre made silent click tracks to master loop from as well. Just turn down the volume when saving the set. Later when you open the set, up pops the set's invisible conductor and every loop you make syncs to it.   
 
I may not be understanding you at all however Marco. If that's the case, my bad.   




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