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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> wrote: > -Set an initial loop (or click track) Can be done. > --Record additional material either as a loop or not as a loop You can set a global preference for Live if new recordings shall auto loop on the fly or not. And the same "launch preferences" can also be set locally for each individual loop after they have been recorded (or dragged in from the hard drive, if "going canned"). > --For looped material, pre-determine if the new loop length in number of > repeats of the first loop. (For example, if my first loop is 2 measures, > I > want to be able to record other tracks of loops that are 1 measure, 3 > measures, 4 measures, etc.) Not possible. But you can set the length of a loop by how long you keep on recording it. There is a quantize function for stuff like going in or out of recording mode so you won't risk to end up with non synced loops. Quantize can of curse be set on the fly; from No Quantize to any number of bars or eight notes or whatever. You do that by hitting two keys on the laptop keyboard (one modifier key and then one of the f keys, or maybe it is the number? to set the Quantize value). So it is a no brainer to create three-against-four groove between two loops recorded on the fly. Very "EDP-ish if you ask me" ;-) > --For non-looped material, I want to be able to cut portions out of the > clip > and turn those portions into loops. Can be done ok on the fly. You can even double click an audio clip (that's the Ableton term for an audio file displayed in a track channel strip slot) and have it open below inside a graphic sample editor where you see the wave form and the play-head moving through the recording. If you hit "loop" you may set the left and right loop point also on the fly by mouse clicking/dragging. This action can also be quantized or not... even done by external MIDI if you want to scratch cut and paste with some little midi mixer/button pad. > --For individual tracks, include tools for normalization (of volume) Normalization can be done to the sample in the sample editor. But I wouldn't recommend it (for fidelity reasons). If you slap a fat compressor over the track you are recoding on this will even out levels that might come out too low or too high in the heat of the live looping/sampling. > and > noise reduction. Well, a noise gate would do that. Live offers such a plugin, named "Gate" ;-)) BTW, Live comes with many interesting and useful plugins. > --Turn off the beat matching Can be done. Live has a function called "Warping" that analyzes audio based on transients and saves this data as an additional file on the disk. That's why canned files can be flied in and so smoothly pick up the tempo. Warping can be turned on or off for any audio file. You can also set up Live's preferences to auto warp - or not - any new recording you make. Warping makes hi fi audio sound pretty bad, but can be used for cool lo fi effects as well. > --Name the original .wav files of each loop or clip without needing to > re-link them to the project. Each recorded file takes on the name of the (mixer) track. You can type in track names before you start recording if you want to control what names recorded files shall be given. Then the files get numbered according to the order you record them in. Track name plus numer on that track. They all go into the project folder. Quite neat. > --In "arrangement view", Copy/paste portions of audio files across a > workspace in an arbitrary manner (where I can decide whether or not they > sync up with the existing tracks). Yes. Of course that can be done. You can even copy drag a clip from the mixer view into the arrange view. To to that you grab it with the mouse, press the TAB key to switch view, and let go wherever in the arrangement you want it to play back. Another neat workflow design details ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com www.looproom.com internet music hub