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

[<biz-looper@groovetronica.com>]

What version of windows were you using? I haven't crashed live yet (and
don't want to get hooked on another 'dangerous' program). I'm using it with
lots of midi.


bIz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Gogniat" <roger_gogniat@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Ableton LIVE's ability to loop in real time


I have tried to do real time looping with the Abelton Live 2.0 demo 
program.
It is well
explained in the user manual and it can be triggered by midi events. But
first when I
tried that the program had a little bug (but I think now it should be OK
because I have
told Abelton about this problem and they have said they wanted to correct 
it
soon).
Second, and I think this is the most problematic issue is sometimes when I
was sending
lot of midi messages the program was crashing really hard: this mean
suddenly no music...

So, regarding this, I can say that I am not enough confident for bringing a
PC in a live
situation. After all Windows is not a real time operating system and
manipulating audio
requires a real time system. So I think that a looper effect is more secure
in a live
context.

What do you think?

Regards

 --- "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> a écrit :
> 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
>
>

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