Looped audio to clip slot (w/o dragging/touching computer)?

[danadiamond]

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has found a way to hands-free get your looped audio to a clip slot. I am playing guitar and bass w/ a heavy reliance on live looping.

My hands are in use 95% of the time playing my instruments & my laptop is not on the desk, so it's not easily accessible. I've managed to do almost everything I need with my midi footswitches, but not this.

For example:

My session has separate scenes for Verse, Chorus, etc.

1) Arm a track with Looper / record my "Verse".

2) Next I want to record the loops for my "Chorus".

3) Then I want to go back to the "Verse" that I've already recorded with Looper; and then go back to the "Chorus", and so on.

The problem is this: If I use 2 separate tracks for Verse and Chorus, stopping them when they come in/out sounds abrupt, since it cuts the audio on that track. Furthermore, I won't be sure if the loops will start in the right place when I unmute them.

I know I can bypass Looper and just record directly into clip slots, but it's not certain the loop will be the right length (and not hands-free); and moreso, I can't stack / build up the loops.

If there was a way to get the Looped audio to a clip slot, it would be easy to swap between Verse & Chorus etc easily.

I'm open to any methods to get the same result - namely, easily swapping back/forth between loops you've recorded - if anyone has a good idea for this. Thanks in advance to anyone who cares to comment.

[S4racen]

What version of Live are you using??

Cheers
D

[danadiamond]

Howdy

I'm using V 8.4

thanks!

[S4racen]

Not to worry then, Live 9 would've been needed to solve this with my solution..

Cheers
D

[chapelier fou]

Record into clips :

Create a track, name it 'INPUT'. Select your input source and monitor IN. This is gonna be your 'thru' track.
Create another track or several tracks. Arm them but monitor OFF. Select INPUT as their input source.
Go to the MIDI screen. Midi map the play button in the bottom area to a footswitch.
Then when you hit your footswitch it will record/play a clip in the currently selected scene.

You can also map the scene up/down if necessary.

[danadiamond]

Ah...interesting. thanks, I will try that!