Re: Curious about Ableton Live

[Jeffrey Collins <jeffreycollins1975@gmail.com>]

Actually you don't need the Looper in Ableton to do loop based music with. You just need a controller to use the record playback functions to get your loops done. What you do after that is solely up to your imagination. Just ask Christopher Willits. As he's been doing a show about using a guitar and Ableton and Max for live for a while now.

Here's one of his videos on the subject.... http://youtu.be/u_k2HlUdL2Q

Cheers. J

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Art Simon <simart@gmail.com> wrote:

Good point Per! I should probably have said the built in looper in
Live is "straightforward, limited and reasonably easy to use." It
doesn't offer many of the possibilities of the EDP and Mobius do.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> 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
>
>



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