Hi I'm new here.
I'd like to find out if recording vocals and looping them on the fly is a possiblity with LIVE. I would like to be able to do this with other instruments as well if possible, like drums or guitars. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers.
HOW CAN I RECORD AND LOOP VOCALS ON THE FLY WITH LIVE?
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Pitch Black
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Its absolutely possible!
You just set the channel's Input field to "Live IN" this will access the input of your computer/soundcard/audio interface. There are many options for monitoring and recording "start on next bar", "start on next 8 bar cycle" etc. You can seamlessly drop out of record and into playback at the touch of the mouse, or a QWERTY key, or a MIDI note.
The best thing is probably to download the Demo and give it a try. Its fully functional: you just can't save your work or render to disk.
HTH
You just set the channel's Input field to "Live IN" this will access the input of your computer/soundcard/audio interface. There are many options for monitoring and recording "start on next bar", "start on next 8 bar cycle" etc. You can seamlessly drop out of record and into playback at the touch of the mouse, or a QWERTY key, or a MIDI note.
The best thing is probably to download the Demo and give it a try. Its fully functional: you just can't save your work or render to disk.
HTH
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Ya...
As Pitch Black says... this is entirely do-able...
But... and this is a rather big one... it will help dramatically if everyone... or at least whomever is being recorded is on time... you may want to use a click track for this or something else... because otherwise you'll end up chopping off bits from the instrument/vocal if it is too long or your loop will be an incorrect size.
Essentially all you need to do though is setup a track to be in record mode, trigger via keyboard or midi a record to start, and then trigger via keyboard or midi for the record to end. Then you've got yourself a nice new shiny loop ready to be played with the rest of your song.
Greg
But... and this is a rather big one... it will help dramatically if everyone... or at least whomever is being recorded is on time... you may want to use a click track for this or something else... because otherwise you'll end up chopping off bits from the instrument/vocal if it is too long or your loop will be an incorrect size.
Essentially all you need to do though is setup a track to be in record mode, trigger via keyboard or midi a record to start, and then trigger via keyboard or midi for the record to end. Then you've got yourself a nice new shiny loop ready to be played with the rest of your song.
Greg