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Hi, Ableton Live is a good software for making static loops on-the-fly and going into tempo changes. The way to go would be to prepare Live's session view for your song structure and simply record the stuff into clips that will continue looping. For tempo changes you type the new tempo into the master track slot, which will then affect the tempo when you select that cell (and the "scene"). This concept is used by Kid Beyond. A bad bad side might be that you will have to use some sort of cue, or click, before you lay down the first loop. Myself I rather use the free looping software Mobius in Windows XP (booting a MacBook into XP by Apple's BootCamp). The reasons for my choice are two: (1) I can overdub multiple layers into one single loop and (2) I can record the first loop without any cue or click-track. The looper analyzes the first loop you create, extracts the BPB and sends out a sync signal so other gear or software effect plug-ins may sync to the beat. The default version of Mobius is eight tracks. Each track can hold an unlimited number of loops, but only one loop per track can play at the same time. You can overdub an unlimited number of audio layers into a loop. You can run parallel loops of different lengths on the eight tracks. The way to go into a new song part is to kick the command "Next Loop". If you are using four parallel loops (for different instruments) you may set those four tracks into "Focus Mode" to have the "Next Loop" command affect all those tracks rather than only the selected track. I guess Tempo changes are difficult to achieve in Mobius. I change tempo by destructively cutting down the loop length, but that only works if you are working with just one track. There is a cool looper hardware called the Looperlative (google web site and forum to read up). It has eight tracks, but in its recent software state it doesn't permit the user to have many loops stored in each track (to jump between). So to go between different song parts with the Looperlative you need to set up a pedal that mutes one track and unmutes another one. That's possible though. Per On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:22 PM, sPaCe mOnKeY <spacemonkeyx05@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been casually visiting loopersdelight.com for the past couple of >years > now, reading up on equipment, checking on past mailing archives, but I've > finally decided to seek out some help for my own looping needs. A lot of >my > questions are basic since I don't have any looping equipment yet, but I >have > a clear idea of what I hope to achieve. > > I want to be able to play one-man-band performances of original songs - > complete with verses, pre-choruses, choruses, bridges, etc. I hope to >play > and loop the drums (either electronic or acoustics mic'd), bass, piano, > guitar, vocal harmonies, and any other wacky sounds... and sing over all > that. My questions are: > > 1. What looping equipment (hardware/software) would be ideal to achieve > this? I'm a beginner, but I'm looking to invest in a quality product to >keep > me going in the long run. Any suggestions for accessories (midi pedals, > set-up suggestions) would also be helpful. > > 2. How can I have separate loops for the verse, pre-chorus, chorus, >bridge, > etc.? Is there a way to switch from each of these segments of the song to > the other on the fly, or is there a smarter way of performing entire >songs? > > My songs follow general pop structure for the most part, but I like to >have > tempo changes, usually going into a bridge or chorus. I assume this may > throw out the possibility of recording to a click, but please let me >know if > I'm wrong. > > Any tips will be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) www.stockholm-athens.com