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Hey all. My group, Von Angel, does a hybrid type of live club music (that's as best as I can describe it). Drums, guitar and keys (me).

I have been looking at literature on Ableton Live and it looks very attractive. I would want to use it as an on-the-fly loop station. Is that possible?

For instance, could I have everything MIDI'd into my Ibook, play a part on the Micron, have it loop, then play a bass line on the XP-80 and have it loop, etc? Then could I record a vocoder part with the MicroKorg as an audio file and have it loop as well? And could all this be done relatively easily on the fly?

Would I need a special MIDI patch bay other than my M-Audio Ozone?

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!! Sorry for the basic question.

Mitch

Live would probably be the ticket. you could control Micron & XP-80 via midi, either by using saved midi clips or making new ones on the fly. and you could record in whatever audio and create loops on the fly as well (depending on your audio interface).

This is fantastic news!

So would I need a multiple MIDI interface to use, say, 3 MIDI devices or could I route them all through the Ozone with Midi/THRU?

Also, the Ozone is an audio interface also, so that should work as well.

So is Live easy to use quickly in a live situation like that? Does anyone else on here use it in a similar way?

you may not need multiple midi outs, as long as there are enough midi thrus to pass on the signal. you could have the micron receive message on channel 1, the xp80 on channel 2. no need for 2 midi outs then.

one thing to consider is how the Ozone will deal with recording audio while playing audio, ie how low can you get your latency without causing audio glitches & stuff.

You'll also probably want a multi-channel sound card....
Like RME - Multiface or something....

So that you can monitor in headphones separate to FOH and punch it in.

Someone was telling me recently that there is a hacked up driver for
soundblaster that will allow it to separate channels, but don't know if it
works with Live or what the quality is.

-Ben

Get these 3rd party drivers for low latency ASIO action for the Creative Live and Audigy sound cards.

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/

Free, awsome community forum, less than 5ms latency(in most cases)
Totally customizable DSP.

Good luck, have fun!!!