Re: Ableton LIVE's ability to loop in real time

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Why not try Digital Performer 3?  It's a kick ass midi and audio 
looper.  Real time, baby.  That's right.  POLAR rocks.  I've yet to use 
the midi looping functions, but I've heard that they rock.  I'm 
borrowing an iBook from work and I hope to use it as a realtime 
midi/audio looper using DP3.  I'll keep ya'll posted.

Mark

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 04:23 PM, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL wrote:

> My brother Bill and I were discussing Ableton's LIVE today and it is my
> impression that
> you cannot looping in real time in that program. He thought you could 
> and I
> didn't see the NAMM demo of this cool program this year.
>
> in other words,  you can play loops and move them around in real time
> and you can record a passage into the program in real time, but I don't
> think
> you can make a loop on the fly that will keep looping if you don't 
> make a
> mouse move.
>
> Does anyone know the answer to this question?
>
> Also, I have noticed that Cycling 74's  RADIAL (soon to be released on 
> the
> Mac side) and The DEVINE_MACHINE (for PC) both have fascinating 
> realtime
> manipulations of loops but
> do not have the ability to loop in real time either (like the most 
> basic DL4
> or Loopstation).
>
> Why is the computer world lagging so far behind the hardware loopers 
> in this
> respect?
>
> It would be so completely incredible to have the ability to use 
> something
> like LIVE
> with realtime loop capabilities.
>
> Color me naive, but isn't it all just software programming?
>
> Set me straight, experts!
>
> yours, Rick
>
>