Midi keyboard live looping.

gloomer · Post by **gloomer** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:15 am

That's what i need.

I need to be able to play a bass line live on my midi keyboard once and have it automatically loop until i say so.

How do i do this?

Thanks in advance.

theque · Post by **theque** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:15 am

turn on overdub OVR on the top on the screen next to the play button, set up a blank midi clip set it to loop, start the clip play your tune and it will loop

gloomer · Post by **gloomer** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:46 pm

It's works fine and everything it's great.

But after the bassline loops a few times i'd like to play another part.

Obviously i can't do that with overdub on.

I turn off overdub. Now I can't hear the bass i played previously. Nor can I record a new line.

There has to be some way in which I can suddenly play a new line on my keyboard and the new one starts looping.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:52 pm

Just trigger the clip underneath it while overdub is on (or off)

This will turn the above clip off and start recording in the new clip, which you can then loop as you wish.

timmybuk2 · Post by **timmybuk2** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:45 pm

i came over to ableton from a version of emagics logic audio. i loved the looping feature in that software. i did a search of the forums here for 'looping midi'. this is where i came to.

i guess the question i have is i am in session mode. i want to set a 4 bar loop and have it just looping. but i notice that it keeps going beyond my 4 bar loop. i setup for midi to record with ovr etc and it seems to not loop. what am i missing?

i am trying to set it so i can hit record play a 4 bar loop and not have to hit any key and it kicks out after 4 bars and plays it back. is it possible? or do i actually have to physically hit a button ever time?

looking to autoloop when i record. not sure if ableton can, but i thought maybe you guys can hook me up with an answer

thanks!

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:51 pm

If you just want to record into a four-bar midi loop, then sure - it's easily done - simply double-click in an empty clip slot, and a 1-bar clip will appear. In the clip properties set the length to 4 bars and start overdubbing into it.

Simple

You can even have different lengths of empty midi clips in your template set, ready to start overdubbing right after you load.

Andreas.

timmybuk2 · Post by **timmybuk2** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:23 pm

bingo! you solved my problem. spend up the process! thanks!