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Michael Stauffer writes: > You can simulate overdubbing by switching and > recording on different tracks in Ableton live, > although the midi controller mappings are not > currently designed efficiently for this. > ... > For working with 10 tracks, you need at least > 30 controllers to be effective. > ... > Anyone have any other ideas? I've been doing live looping with Ableton Live onstage since early November. I'm making use of a Windows utility called MIDI Translator, which translates MIDI events into any sequence of keystrokes you want. In Live, I've got lots of tracks' worth of buttons (arm-disarm, trigger-launch, etc.) assigned to unique keystrokes -- almost to the point where I max out the 52 characters in the upper- and lower-case alphabets! Then for each song I do, I have an associated set of mappings in MIDI Translator that translate the MIDI events coming from my foot controller (Ground Control Pro) into keystrokes. So, for example, in a certain song, button #1 on my GCP feeds Live the following keystroke sequence: "Ctrl-1 k K Z R l q a", which sets the quantization, arms a track or two, sets the first track to record, etc. It's a kludge, certainly, and not very fault-tolerant -- when I hit the wrong button on stage, all sorts of unintended things happen -- but it does the job. MIDI Translator can be found at http://www.bome.com . Andrew Chaikin, aka Kid Beyond andrew@biggerbread.com (415) 929-8822 http://biggerbread.com | http://kidbeyond.com