Re: looping with albeton live

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

If only it sounded as good as Mainstage. I love both, and am  
constantly going back and forth. But I hope Ableton continues to  
develop Looper. Per is right, its sync abilities are rock solid.


On Nov 6, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM, roger <roger@brecon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub,  
>> undo and
>> more without touching the computer.
>>
>> Has anyone any experience of this.
>
>
> Yes, I did it for hours yesterday. Was coaching an artist that is
> going out to loop his album material plus live instrument using Live
> 8.
>
> Except for the feature your post mention you can also assign pedals to
> rate shift the loop. That means either transposing pitch one octave up
> and doubling the speed or transposing pitch one octave down and
> reducing speed to half the original tempo. If overdubbing new audio
> into the loop at those extremes the some interesting sound will come
> out when going back to normal speed/pitch.
>
> Another feature is that you can instantly divide or multiply the loop
> length by 2. It's not possible to divide or multiply by 3 or any other
> number than 2. When multiplied it simply gets longer by repeating the
> same chunk of original audio. When divided it cuts out half of the
> original audio and loops that. If repeating the division by two you
> can get down to very fast loops down in granular land where everything
> sounds like pneumatic manufacturing processes.
>
> "Reverse" is also possible.
>
> All these tricks you do to the loop in the Looper plug-in seems to
> happen according to the global quantization you run the host Live at.
> I did not test yesterday, but I think you should be able to create
> some interesting poly rhythm by jumping between different quantization
> settings while working the loop in the Looper plug-in.
>
> The most powerful feature that comes with the Looper plug-in is that
> you can set it to calculate the tempo from the first loop you make and
> then start the host Live as you close the loop. Before Live 8 this has
> not been possible in any other way than by using a Looper that sends
> out MIDI Clock that Live follows. This new system is more solid both
> in the way it sounds and in the meaning of not crashing or "loosing
> contact with master tempo clock" (hated that error message in pre 8
> Live)
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>