Re: Live 8 Beta Looper and Mainstage together - first impressions

[Andrew Schoen <larjschoen3@mac.com>]

Hey there!  Long time reader, first time emailer!  

I was truly excited to hear Ableton Live was going to add a looper to the 
Live arsenal!  I have yet to open the demo, as I have other projects right 
to finish right now, but it is my understanding that any loops created can 
be brought into Live as an entire loop clip.  This is where I am really, 
really disappointed.  I hope I am totally wrong about this, but it seems 
to me that this is an extreme oversight on Abletons part.  Right now I am 
using my Guitar Rig 3 Loop Machine, and once I get something I dig, then I 
export it as separate wav files and bring those into Live as separate 
clips and away I go.  At least 50% of all the music I do starts this way. 

I just think that if you could separate your loop parts and import them as 
individual clips, then I would be in loopers heaven!  If anyone knows 
differently, please let me know!

Thanks for all the great insights!

Andy Schoen
www.untitledvisions.com



 
On Sunday, March 08, 2009, at 09:56AM, "Warren Sirota" 
<wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:
>I've been having a lot of trouble getting either Mobius or
>SooperLooper AUs to work properly within Mainstage. Mainstage seems to
>get flummoxed easily by too many midi streams floating around (esp
>once i then open MAX). However, I can report great excitement getting
>the Live 8 beta looper and Mainstage to work together - so I can use
>the greasy MS guitar presets I've been working up, pipe the audio into
>Ableton (via physical routing on a multi-channel audio interface),
>make loops in Ableton, and sync the fx in Mainstage to the tempo of
>the generated loop once i've completed it. I haven't tried this yet,
>but I'll wager you could put a SooperLooper AU into another channel in
>Live and have it slave, but not send clocks, after you've completed
>the first loop in the native Live looper. that way, you could do the
>fancier stuff like SUS functions.
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