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On 29 dec 2005, at 01.57, Mark Smart wrote: > Well, after much futzing and frustration, I finally got this setup > working the > way I want. I like Ableton a lot, but I wanted a way to automate > the steps with > a sequencer that could be advanced to the next step with just one > pedal, like > what I did purely inside standalone Reaktor before. > > So today I figured out how to make a Reaktor sequencer inside > Ableton drive > Ableton's remote control using the MIDI loopback trick from this > article: > > http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=32&storycode=12143 Yeah, I agree to this being one of the most exciting live looping techniques so far! I've been doing that for some years now but instead of the Reaktor Seqencer I'm setting up MIDI clips in Live that I send back into Live as "Remote Cotrol Data". I started doing it on a Mac with OS X, that has such a MIDI loop-back streaming option built into the operating system, but now I have also expanded it to Windows XP by using MIDI Yoke (thank you Jeff Larson for the heads up on M Yoke!). Originally I got the idea of sequencing control data for loops - in overdubbing mode or not - from David Torn on this list. Back then we were discussing the hardware looper Electrixpro Repeater. I was using an Alesis MMT-8 hardware MIDI sequencer to control the Repeater and Bill Walker also gave me some valuable help (thanks Bill!). Until this day there isn't really any software available that can pitch transpose overdubbing loops as the Repeater did. When this will be possible in software I'm sure it will explode as a new paradigm for live looping that everyone wants to explore :-) Speaking about sequencing controller data for a looper, didn't Claude Voit do that with EDP quite early? I'm now working on a laptop based system of "chained actions" that I will trigger with just one button. Then I play acoustic instruments to fill the loops with audio. I have noticed that I tend to tap dance certain chains of commands on my floor controller, when looping, and since I usually pull off the same sequences of commands I can as well automate them and focus on what REALLLy matters: the audio you play on instruments. Pushing buttons is just stupid. I must have collected enough push-button karma for twenty lifetimes ;-) I want to PLAY live looping music! Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.looproom.com (international) www.boysen.se (Swedish) ---> iTunes Music Store (digital) www.cdbaby.com/perboysen