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Thanks to Formatk for the clever suggestion of setting cycle points in arrange.

Thanks Bencodec...I've got the augustus looper...I'll give that a shot (can you elaborate)

Thanks Nowtime...obviously I'm not the only doughead trying to do this.

Thanks Tone Deft for being a dick...somebody's gotta ...

well thanks for that?
I'll see if I can't pry it open a little
I've got an FCB1010
I'm running midistroke
I understand Live's potential
and it's shortcomings...
If you have something useful to add
by all means...
otherwise...why bother?

I should rethink my terminology...I dont want to lock into Live's quantisation...
I want to determine the length of my first loop freely...free time...no commitments.......And then have all the following loops be the exact same lentgh.
As though loop 1 becomes the master....
So technically the ...

I should have elaborated
I'm using an FCB1010 floor control.
I'm also playing with loopy Llama which is very cool but basicaklly I want Live to behave like a multitrack looper laying down loops on tracks 1 then 2 then 3 etc.
I know I can set a tempo and quantise to bar...but some of the music is ...

I'm doing some live on the fly looping...I DONT WANT TO USE THE QUANTISE...After I recored my first loop on track 1 say...how can I get the next few loops on track 2 and 3 to conform thier length to the first loop...Its kinda like quantising the lenghths of all the following loops to the first. But ...

IS there any way to arm an audio track automatically by clicking on a slot(with modifier keys)..and auto disarming when the recording is stopped?
instead of arming a track individually first and then selecting a slot.
I read something in the manual that gave me the inpression this is possible...by ...

I've read a post that says you can do it by using the MACKIE control...but I cant quite figure out what that means.....do you just look up the mackie protocol and set your pedal to send those messages???

I'm wondering if there is a way to map my floor controller directly to a key function ...like "ENTER"..without using a midi translator.
It seems like a rather obvious thing to have built into the program.
I'm in 5.2....does 6 change any of this...I'm aware that you can have 1 midi message mapped tp ...

thanks guys....
the reverse button doesnt quite cut it.(flips the whole sample...doesnt just reverse from point...not useful live)
I tried the other plugins...well the 2 mac ones anyway...they're kinda funky
not really just a straight forward reverse function.
I'm surprised this isnt just a basic ...

Is it possible to reverse the direction of an audio clip on the fly?

I just discovered this and it resolves your issue.

First of all your tracks have to be armed...may I suggest using an audio track 1 as input and monitor only....then set the inputs of your other recording tracks to Audio1.
Arm all the tracks but turn the monitor off for eveything except input ...

I'm using the curser keys to shift focus amoung multiple slots.
When I adjust an effect setting or something ...I lose focus on the clips.
Whats the best way to return focus to the clip slots?....
should I just designate a dummy slot to a pedal on my FCB1010 to it?....seems like a waste of a pedal ...

I've searched the forum for syncing info but I cant find the answer to this specific question. I'm not being lazy here and someone must know how to approach this so PLEASE...
a few words of advice would be VERY APPRECIATED
thanks!@#$%^

Can someone PLEASE explain how to sync multiple instances of Loopy LLama with each other using a tap tempo. I want to establish the tempo and loop length with the fist instance of the looper...then have other instances syn to it!
I know its possible...I just dont get the flow of it...what drives ...

im really not the guy to answer this but it does ring a bell. I read it somewhere
The problem you describe is also evident of knobs....hence the continuous rotary controller.
If i recall the solution lies in the behaviour assigned to a controller...it can behave in various ways....one is to be ...