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Re: Software looping



Cool. You may need to read up on how MIDI signal path addressing works in 
Live.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Josh Elliott <jrelliott500@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Awesome tips! I'll try tonight and report back! thanks
>
> On Dec 3, 2015 10:36 AM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can set how clips will generally behave in the preferences (tab:
>> "Record, Warp, Lunch") and also, for specific clips, in the Launch box
>> down to the left (click the tiny "L" inside the yellow circle to open
>> it up).
>>
>> A trick many use for live looping in Live is this two step method:
>>
>> 1. MIDI learn - assign - a MIDI event to some module to perform an
>> action (like for example a clip to stop playback or a looper to go
>> Reverse....)
>>
>> 2. Then create "dummy" clips, MIDI clips on a MIDI channel, and fill
>> those "controller clips" with the MIDI event to be sent to the plugin
>> that is to be triggered to perform the corresponding action.
>>
>> This way you can simply trigger one of those controller clips, rather
>> than kick a pedal assigned directly to the plugin function. The good
>> things are that there are many ways to trigger clips, so you are not
>> limited that much. The simplest setup would be to have just one pedal
>> that does "Trigger Next Clip" on a quick stomp and "Trigger Previous
>> Clip" on a "Hold Pedal Switch Down". You may also keep alternative
>> columns in Live of these Control Dummy MIDI Clips; one for each song;
>> where you order the commands like they are to be triggered while you
>> perform that song.
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.perboysen.com
>> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Josh Elliott <jrelliott500@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello Per! Thanks for the reply. Greetings from Wisconsin.
>> >
>> > So I believe that would take care of series looping (having an a,b or 
>> > c
>> > part) as long as I can switch between parts with a pedal.
>> >
>> > yes the latency I'm having is only with monitor set to "in" the only
>> > reason
>> > I'm doing that is because YouTube tutorials are telling me I have to 
>> > do
>> > that
>> > to use plug in effects live on a channel. Other wise with monitoring 
>> > off
>> > I
>> > don't have latency.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to have start and stop clip mapped to one button. Right
>> > now
>> > push button starts recording then second push stops recording and 
>> > plays
>> > loop(perfect!) would like one more press to stop or resume the loop
>> > playing
>> > (like a loop pedal)
>> >
>> > On Dec 3, 2015 9:24 AM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Josh,
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Josh Elliott <jrelliott500@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I do not think series looping is possible in software?
>> >>
>> >> What do you mean by "series looping"? Stacking a series of loops for
>> >> alternate triggering over a channel? If so, that's how Live works 
>> >> with
>> >> recorded audio clips. Triggering a new loop on a channel silences the
>> >> playing loop, on the same track/channel.
>> >>
>> >> > Also...I'm experiencing latency in certain circumstances but I
>> >> > believe
>> >> > it's
>> >> > because I'm currently using an old duo core home pc.
>> >>
>> >> I'm afraid you're wrong there. Latency comes from the time it takes 
>> >> to
>> >> digitise the audio and process it in the software. The trick with
>> >> software based loopers is to NOT monitor your input audio through the
>> >> software! Most audio interfaces have this "direct monitoring" or
>> >> "direct ASIO" function that simply splits the signal in two; one part
>> >> goes into the software to get processed and one part goes directly to
>> >> the amp/PA/speakers. With looping you should never have any latency
>> >> because when audio gets recorded into a loop the software has plenty
>> >> of time to compensate for latency until it is time to play back that
>> >> audio (on next loop return).
>> >>
>> >> Greetings from Sweden
>> >>
>> >> Per Boysen
>> >> www.perboysen.com
>> >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>> >>
>> >
>>
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