Re: Looping Beginner Seeks Help

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:44 PM, sPaCe mOnKeY <spacemonkeyx05@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> If that's the case, if I use Mobius in Ableton Live to loop an entire 
>song
> structure, how do I switch from pre-chorus to chorus, chorus to bridge,
> etc.? Is it just a matter of muting and unmuting certain loops?

No. In Mobius you go "Next Loop" or you give the direct command "Go To
Loop xx". There is no need to mute the loop already playing on a
Mobius track since the new one will take over right away. (see my
other post).


>
> It seems like Mobius in Live is the way to go for my needs.

At least if you plan to use a click track to give you the pre
configured tempo before you start playing to lay down the first loop.
Live is good at that. As click you can use a pre recorded Live Clip
that you did record with the instrument you will be playing for
creating your first loop and few people in the audience will realize
that it isn't you playing. Set that clip to only play for two bars and
then play the same thing as the first loop and go from there. Check
the Kid Beyond video at ableton.com for an idea of how smoothly this
trick can be used.

I prefer to set the tempo by my playing - i.e. by the length of the
first loop. If you host Mobius by Live you will have to set Live to
MIDI Clock sync (as slave) to Mobius (as master). Live is not very
good at this, so over here I stopped using Live and picked up Bidule
instead as my host for Mobius. I find that ore stable and also more
CPU friendly when playing with many alternative effect patches.

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