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If only it sounded as good as Mainstage. I love both, and am constantly going back and forth. But I hope Ableton continues to develop Looper. Per is right, its sync abilities are rock solid. On Nov 6, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:45 PM, roger <roger@brecon.co.uk> wrote: >> Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, >> undo and >> more without touching the computer. >> >> Has anyone any experience of this. > > > Yes, I did it for hours yesterday. Was coaching an artist that is > going out to loop his album material plus live instrument using Live > 8. > > Except for the feature your post mention you can also assign pedals to > rate shift the loop. That means either transposing pitch one octave up > and doubling the speed or transposing pitch one octave down and > reducing speed to half the original tempo. If overdubbing new audio > into the loop at those extremes the some interesting sound will come > out when going back to normal speed/pitch. > > Another feature is that you can instantly divide or multiply the loop > length by 2. It's not possible to divide or multiply by 3 or any other > number than 2. When multiplied it simply gets longer by repeating the > same chunk of original audio. When divided it cuts out half of the > original audio and loops that. If repeating the division by two you > can get down to very fast loops down in granular land where everything > sounds like pneumatic manufacturing processes. > > "Reverse" is also possible. > > All these tricks you do to the loop in the Looper plug-in seems to > happen according to the global quantization you run the host Live at. > I did not test yesterday, but I think you should be able to create > some interesting poly rhythm by jumping between different quantization > settings while working the loop in the Looper plug-in. > > The most powerful feature that comes with the Looper plug-in is that > you can set it to calculate the tempo from the first loop you make and > then start the host Live as you close the loop. Before Live 8 this has > not been possible in any other way than by using a Looper that sends > out MIDI Clock that Live follows. This new system is more solid both > in the way it sounds and in the meaning of not crashing or "loosing > contact with master tempo clock" (hated that error message in pre 8 > Live) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com >