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

I have tried to do real time looping with the Abelton Live 2.0 demo 
program. It is well
explained in the user manual and it can be triggered by midi events. But 
first when I
tried that the program had a little bug (but I think now it should be OK 
because I have
told Abelton about this problem and they have said they wanted to correct 
it soon).
Second, and I think this is the most problematic issue is sometimes when I 
was sending
lot of midi messages the program was crashing really hard: this mean 
suddenly no music...

So, regarding this, I can say that I am not enough confident for bringing 
a PC in a live
situation. After all Windows is not a real time operating system and 
manipulating audio
requires a real time system. So I think that a looper effect is more 
secure in a live
context.

What do you think?

Regards

 --- "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> a écrit : 
> 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
> 
>  

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