Re: Looping Beginner Seeks Help

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

sPaCe mOnKeY wrote:
> Thanks for all the great advice so far. To answer Andy's question, I was 
> hoping to record them at different tempos rather than changing the tempo 
> later... maybe even having time signature changes as well, but I'm 
> starting to learn I may be better off not changing the tempo at all.

Actually there's no problem at all to use whatever tempos/times you want.
Mobius (for instance), will let you record a number of different sized
loops and play them back one at a time in any order.

I think it would be a real shame is you ditched that interesting
side of your music just to fit in with a piece of software.

Ableton is maybe not very flexible with tempo
(Kid Beyond has to lip sync the first loop in each song),
but Mobius can run within Ableton without time restrictions.

If you don't need the features that Ableton "Live" offers,
then Mobius will run without it, in "standalone" form,
or you can run it (or several instances of it!)within Plogue Bidule,a vst 
host
that's designed for flexible tempo working.

> 
> 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?
> 

in Mobius you can switch from one loop to another.
In Ableton I guess you need to do mute/unmute, I'm not sure
how easy that is to do with live button pressing, a lot
of Ableton users set their songs up so that the muting is
automatic.

andy butler