RE: Ableton LIVE's ability to loop in real time

["Chris Roberts" <cpr@musetrap.com>]

hey, check out AmbiLoop! hehe... we are slowly bringing more and more 
features
in, and it is designed for realtime looping... but, you know all this...
hehe... There is a new beta out (available on the ambiloop yahoo group).
Chris M has added added ASIO and WMM support, as well as:

* Option to put effects in the feedback loop
* Latent input level and pan control (in the preferences menu)
* Set loop button works anytime (no undo though)
* Option to have set loop switch to playback
* Option to set empty loop times to last recorded loop time.
* Keyboard shortcuts 1 through 8 select track 1-8.

I have been swamped with work, but I have just jumped back into the fray
and I am working on the UI for the new MIDI->AmbiLoopCommand routing system
and MIDI sync... (no time frames on the completion this work)

peace
-cpr

>-- Original Message --
>From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: Ableton LIVE's ability to loop in real time
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:23:42 -0800
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
>
>My brother Bill and I were discussing Ableton's LIVE today and it is my
>impression that
>you cannot looping in real time in that program. He thought you could and
>I
>didn't see the NAMM demo of this cool program this year.
>
>in other words,  you can play loops and move them around in real time
>and you can record a passage into the program in real time, but I don't
>think
>you can make a loop on the fly that will keep looping if you don't make
a
>mouse move.
>
>Does anyone know the answer to this question?
>
>Also, I have noticed that Cycling 74's  RADIAL (soon to be released on
the
>Mac side) and The DEVINE_MACHINE (for PC) both have fascinating realtime
>manipulations of loops but
>do not have the ability to loop in real time either (like the most basic
>DL4
>or Loopstation).
>
>Why is the computer world lagging so far behind the hardware loopers in
this
>respect?
>
>It would be so completely incredible to have the ability to use something
>like LIVE
>with realtime loop capabilities.
>
>Color me naive, but isn't it all just software programming?
>
>Set me straight, experts!
>
>yours, Rick
>
>