Re: Ableton Live?

[Jeff Larson <jeff@zonemobius.com>]

For looping with Mobius over pre-recorded backing tracks, Live is a good 
choice.  It might be overkill 
but that's definitely one of its strengths.  If you start the backing 
tracks first, then want Mobius
to sync with that tempo you would use Sync Mode set to Host Beat or Host 
Bar.  With this
Mobius will automatically quantize the start and ending of a recording to 
the beat/bar of
the host transport.

If you want to start by creating a Mobius loop and letting it set the 
tempo for the backing tracks
that you trigger later, it's a bit more complicated.  You would configure 
Mobius to use Sync Mode 
"Out" which causes it to send MIDI clocks. Then you use a MIDI loopback 
device such as LoopBe
or MIDI Yoke to route those clocks back into Live and then configure Live 
to slave to MIDI clocks.

Another option if your backing loop requirements are simple is to just run 
Mobius standalone
and load the backing loops into Mobius tracks.  Mobius will play them as 
if they had
been recorded live, then you can use "track sync" to record other Mobius 
tracks in sync
with the track containing the pre-recorded loop.  If you want to switch 
between several backing
loops you can create a Mobius "project" that loads the loops into 
successive loop slots in 
a track.  Then set Switch Quantize to Loop then use one of the loop 
trigger functions or
click on them to change.  The current loop will play to the end then 
switch to the other loop.
You can do some of the same things that Live does but it was not really 
designed for this purpose
so if you have complex pre-recorded arrangements spread over multiple 
loops in multiple tracks
then the Live UI will be better suited for that.

Jeff