Re: Curious about Ableton Live

[Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com>]

> Live's
> Looper limits loop length division and multiplying to 2. For me that
> is a "show stopper" 

Me 2.  Bummed me mightily at the time the feature was released.  Have been 
banging on Ableton about this for quite a while.  This limitation prevents 
all kind of freedoms when improvising song forms.

daniel 
On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Art Simon <simart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The built in looper is straightforward and reasonably
>> easy to use.
> 
> I agree. But since you brought it up it must be said that Live's
> Looper limits loop length division and multiplying to 2. For me that
> is a "show stopper" since I love setting poly rhythms between parallel
> loops of different lengths. This limitation does not exist if you
> record loops as audio clips, but then you have no overdub or feedback
> option. But you could of course host a more advanced looper in Live,
> like Augustus Loop or Mobius.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> So, no noise reduction, huh?
> 
> Noop. If you don't regard sophisticated use of EQ "noise reduction".
> Generally I don't know about any software noise reduction that works
> well on a direct audio input stream, but many such algorithms work
> well on audio that has already been recorded to disc thanks to the
> "pre listen" functionality. Finding no such thing in Live though - but
> lots of distortion and noise creating tools ;-)
> 
> Per
>