Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

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Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by natecraypo » Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:07 pm

I would love to see a MIDI mappable button within looper's interface that automatically fills the next available (empty) clip in looper's respective track with its current loop. This would save me loads of time performing (yeah, I like looper A LOT). I don't think I'm the first to bring this up. I vaguely remember reading about someone using mac's IAC driver to simulate mouse movements in an attempt to do just this. But, all I have to go on are vague memories and little time for net research. Anyone know anything about that? Anyone already have methods for performing this task? Thanks.

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by nowtime » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:54 pm

Yes Yes.

It seems the Looper-user-population is pretty small at least as represented in this Forum. I don't know if that means people have given up on it or Looperists don't know about it or what? Drag n Drop is ill-designed and works badly for looperists. My fix was to make an 8-track looper. No dragging needed! But this sucka always crashes. Even a 3-track looper always crashes.

Loop
Drag
Drop
press play on the clip before the next downbeat
press stop on the looper before the next downbeat
Delete
Repeat

ouch!
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by kconlan » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:32 pm

+1 yes please

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by natecraypo » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:34 pm

yeah man. i'm hurtin'. glad to know i'm not alone on this.

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by zenkick » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:50 am

+1
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by alien factory » Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:59 pm

exactly what I need...
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by Mister36 » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:44 pm

+1 (I was a bit aghast when Ableton announced the Looper and this functionality wasn't there)

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by chapelier fou » Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:21 pm

Not using looper although i do mainly livelooping performances, but within clips. That because it's buggy and all you said above.
So +1 for any improvement.
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by ToBe » Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:50 pm

Well this approach loops directly into clips (Audio and MIDI) plus you will get some great visual feedback:
https://blog.abletondrummer.com/live-lo ... eton-live/

BUT it is a M4L devices, so would need Max for Live to be able to use this.
(FREE) MAX for LIVE devices
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by natecraypo » Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:03 am

Wow, it’s been a while since I logged in…

I did end up coming up with a workaround solution…

https://youtu.be/54BmIUPBaUY?si=R2gt22J4x2V2_E5W

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by [jur] » Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:40 pm

In L12.1 (currently in beta) it's easily doable via a new M4L command.
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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by natecraypo » Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:53 pm

[jur] wrote:
Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:40 pm
In L12.1 (currently in beta) it's easily doable via a new M4L command.
ooo can I try?

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by natecraypo » Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:58 pm

natecraypo wrote:
Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:53 pm
[jur] wrote:
Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:40 pm
In L12.1 (currently in beta) it's easily doable via a new M4L command.
ooo can I try?
I Just DL'd the beta. What's the new M4L command?

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Re: Looper Drag & Drop mapping?

Post by [jur] » Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:55 pm

It’s mentioned in the beta release notes
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