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bobrichards
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How do I do this?

Post by bobrichards » Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:17 am

In all of the videos I have seen, people have it so that whatever they play loops over and over, and they add on to it. how do I do this? How do I end the loop once I am done?

I use mpk mini and newest ableton.

Dragonbreath
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Re: How do I do this?

Post by Dragonbreath » Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:18 am

How bout you start by doing the tutorials and reading the manual...

bobrichards
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Re: How do I do this?

Post by bobrichards » Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:24 am

ba hum bug.

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Re: How do I do this?

Post by yur2die4 » Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:04 am

Are you talking about MIDI or Audio clips?

For MIDI, you can play a clip, hit play again and it will loop. Then if the overdub button is turned on, you can add notes.

For Audio, you can play a clip, then hit it again to loop it. After that, you cannot add more audio to it, but you can open a second Audio Channel, and record a new loop.

As an additional option for audio, you can either use Looper which allows you to overdub (it is very friendly), or you can use a Return channel with a long delay feeding back into itself(this is probably your least likely option as, you would not be able to save your results, it would just be looping in the buffer.)

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Re: How do I do this?

Post by Abterra » Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:29 pm

i don't mean to be a dick, but a baby could figure this out.

happy holidays.

bobrichards
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Re: How do I do this?

Post by bobrichards » Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:19 am

Abterra wrote:i don't mean to be a dick, but a baby could figure this out.

happy holidays.


merry christmas!

sorry for being rude

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Re: How do I do this?

Post by vitaminB » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:34 pm

Have you tried using the Looper in Live?

http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_8/announcement/looper

Someone using it and showing you how

http://blog.dubspot.com/recording-with- ... ra-escude/

Hope that's what you're looking for
Have fun.

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Re: How do I do this?

Post by Trypset » Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:04 am

bobrichards wrote:
Abterra wrote:i don't mean to be a dick, but a baby could figure this out.

happy holidays.


merry christmas!

sorry for being rude

no ones being rude dude, you are being a super lazy ass and peeps here don't really put up with it.
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