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Re: Ableton/Mobius consulting gig



havent had an issue with that at all using Abletons looper,then again
im using mac
i should also mentioned that mobius crashed badly a couple of times in
conjunction with ableton so i stop using it for the meantime...
Luis

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com> 
wrote:
>> Andy,ive been working with both lately and have  pretty much down the
>> basics,though Mobius is the king of loopers i tell you that little
>> looper in Ableton 8 is a shy monster!
>
>  I was pretty impressed this looper.... It was certainly easy to get 
>going with.  But for a couple of things, it may have been my primary 
>looping platform
>
> I'll mention my issues w/ the Ableton looper here as it may save someone 
>else the time.  Or, perhaps one you wizards will shed a light on a better 
>method.
>
> Two issues keep me from living and breathing Ableton looper.
>
> 1)  Synchronized Multi Channel looping with the Ableton looper was very 
>cumbersome to set up and, though I am not sure this was the root cause, 
>multi channel looping with the ableton looper is the only time I have 
>ever seen a kernel panic on my Intel MBPRO.
> 2)  No EDP style multiply function---  This is integral to nearly all of 
>my preferred looping workflows.
>
> d
>
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Louie Angulo wrote:
>
>> Andy,ive been working with both lately and have  pretty much down the
>> basics,though Mobius is the king of loopers i tell you that little
>> looper in Ableton 8 is a shy monster!
>> it has all the important stuff you need,record,multiply,overdub,pitch
>> shift,feedback reverse and it will slave any groove you put into
>> ableton perfectly in sync.
>> Everythng in it is "midi learneable" you just activate the midi learn
>> function on Ableton and push on your favorite foot controller
>> You can also use the same looper in different tracks as well,so
>> imagine having 4 or more different loopers! not only that but once you
>> have a loop you like you can insert it in a scene and use it to create
>> arrangments.Then you can put any after fxs adfter the looper like
>> delays or reverbs etc. and they will all sync to the beat!!
>> So now that you have all that enchilada going,just push record in
>> ableton and start recording your performance and arrangement in
>> realtime by turning things on and off etc.
>> Im so busy with that at the moment that i havent really messed with
>> mobius that much,there is som much you can do with the little
>> looper,and everything ive mentioned is in Ableton without the need of
>> x tra plugins.Ableton is also very stable and as Sjaak said is like
>> looking at a mixer which makes things very logical.
>> Try it!
>> Luis
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Andy Owens <andy@1800dialword.com> 
>wrote:
>>> So, if all you wanted was a simple, rock solid looper, then you 
>would/could
>>> just run mobius standalone, with no processing or mangling, just 
>straight
>>> record audio post analog effects?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ao
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Simeon Harris [mailto:simeonharris40@googlemail.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 5:41 AM
>>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>>> Subject: Re: Ableton/Mobius consulting gig
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> well one reason would be so that you could post process the loops with 
>fx
>>> plugins. or pre-process...depending on what you want to do. i host 
>mobius
>>> inside bidule for this very reason. another cool thing about ableton (i
>>> gather) is that you can create midi clips and fire them off via midi. 
>the
>>> clip can contain controller data, or notes or program changes and be
>>> quantized, so you can do some pretty cool stuff.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:51 AM, William Walker 
><billwalker@baymoon.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sim Sez; "i ask, because i could set up mobius for you, but i know 
>nothing
>>> of this ableton of which you speak"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My thoughts exactly,  I'm wondering what is the essential  reason for
>>> running one platform inside another?   Mobius running in Abelton as an
>>> example? or superlooper in Abelton.  Is it for managing effects plug 
>ins or
>>> more extended script commands? My embarrasing computer brain disconnect
>>> issues oozing to the surface....
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>  Bill
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> www.luis-angulo.com
>>
>
>



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