Re: A DIFF : re:Workaround in Ableton's LIVE 4.0

["Tias" <tias@condomo.com>]

Of course you can! ;)

Either just turn off all warp-markers for unlimited de-sync or just change
the looplength to something like 7/8 long or anything else funny that goes
out of sync and then comes back after a while.

/Tias

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodrigo Constanzo" <silence@bellsouth.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:09 AM
Subject: A DIFF : re:Workaround in Ableton's LIVE 4.0


> i guess im jumping in a little late, but ive been having a hoot with live
> lately and was wondering if some of you live pros could tell me something
>
> can you do asynchronous loops in live?, from what ive gathered it just
> stretches/shrinks whatever you drop in to fit the tempo, is there a way 
>to
> make it play whatever loops you add loop at their own tempi but within 
>teh
> same liveset?
> and can you combine it stretch/shrinking loops AND leaving loops at their
> own tempi at the same time?
>
> thanks
>
> rodrigo
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tias" <tias@condomo.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:09 AM
> Subject: Re: 1st Loop Workaround in Ableton's LIVE 4.0
>
>
> > > Maybe we're actually saying the same thing and I'm just reacting
> > > strongly to the phrase "virtually impossible."
> >
> > Hehe, indeed we are. ;)
> >
> > > other than live loop fanatics. Often in a production setting I have a
> > > loop I would like to use as a master, and as such I would prefer that
it
> > > not be granulated (even subtly), and that all the other loops sync to
> > > it.
> >
> > Well put (my thoughts exactly), the code for finding out the tempo of a
> loop
> > isn't hard since the theory isn't hard.
> > But implementing it in the current sample-slot engine that Live uses, i
> just
> > can't help to think that it would be hard. Unless maybe a modification
to
> it
> > adding something like a new "Master Tempo Channel" so you could have
> several
> > samples, loaded or recorded on the fly, with different master tempos so
> Live
> > just change the tempo and stretches all other samples as usual.
> >
> > That way you could have either Samples in each Tempo Slot or perhaps
even
> > just a Tempo event setting. So you could trigger new tempo-settings 
>with
> the
> > click of a button. ;)
> >
> > How's that for an implementation? Maybe we should suggest that to
Ableton.
> >
> > That's one thing that cheaper priced sequencers of today tend to loose
> focus
> > on, a song usually is just one tempo all the way through, not by choice
> but
> > because the software some musicians use doesn't support changing of
tempos
> > throughout the song.
> >
> > /Tias
> >
> >
>