Mouseless Looping/Unlooping from clip 2 clip

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:28 am

I never noticed this behavior before.

Assign a MIDI button to the LOOP button in Live's clip view. Assign it once it works for the last clip launched, it's universal.

Launch a bunch of clips as loops. Hitting the MIDI LOOP button toggles LOOP on the last selected clip.

You can loop or unloop clips at will, no mouse required.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:45 pm

thats really cool, im surprised its not more widely known.
what would you do with it though, how would you use it?

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:34 pm

I've been working on a DJ set (ever since I saw Moldover's site I've been geeked on this). Each song is split into loops. I launch a bunch of loops and bring up the levels on whichever ones mash together well. When I want a whole song to play I relaunch a loop of that song and before the clip hits its loop point I unloop it and the whole song plays out. To get it looping again I relaunch it and put it back into loop mode.

I do all this with a BCR, 1 encoder to select scenes, 8 buttons (push encoders) to launch clips in 8 tracks, 1 button assigned to LOOP.

I hope that makes sense.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:37 pm

<whoops, connection dropped, double post>

CopyRightJustice · Post by **CopyRightJustice** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:40 am

I also use bome Midi Translator to change note on and off messages from a bcr2000 button into two different control messages and use these to control the loop position/length buttons this enables you to press and hold your loop button and release at the desired length creating the loop,also have a button assinged to loop for disabling the loop.