RE: Using computers as a Live Looper - software alternatives

["Michael Stauffer" <michael@circular-logic.com>]

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>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 .

This looks promising, I'll try it out, though I might end up switching to
a Mac laptop. Thanks!