Ableton Forum

Hello,

Is is possible to put more loops in a audio track? Because I can now only set 1 loop...

Thanks!

you can put loops vertically on tracks or horizontally across scenes. Only one clip can play on each track at a time but you can add as many tracks as you like.

What do you mean?

abbie wrote:What do you mean?

Ok, now is the time that you really need to READ THE MANUAL. Seriously.

are you in session view?
You can put hundreds of loops in one track but they would be arranged vertically, and you would only be able to play one at a time, monophonic if you will.
BUT add another track and you can play another clip/loop. Keep adding tracks for each clip you want to play at the same time, ie, if you want 5 clips/loops playing at once you will need 5 tracks to play them, and you would arrange them horizontally (or diagonally i guess)
Have a look over the manual because this is pretty fundamental

I understand, but how can I save them? Because I can only save 1 loop on each track. So i have to duplicate the track?

im not sure what you mean. Create a new track & drag a clip on to it. Repeat for as many as you want playing at the same time. Go to file & save the set.?

not wanting to get too semantic, but are we mixing up two uses of the word "track", ie, it can mean "a piece of music (what a dj plays)" or it can mean "a channel on the mixer"?

i think you might be talking about the first one - "how do i put another loop into a sinlge clip (a single piece of music)?". and the answer to that is, you can't, you can only have one pair of loop markers in one clip. if you want to loop another section, then you need to copy the clip/track/tune/whatever you want to call it, and put the loop markers elsewhere.

if i've misunderstood, and you actually meant the second meaning of "track", then like nick said above, no amount of forum posts will help, you need to read the manual.

cheers.

itook4lefts wrote:not wanting to get too semantic, but are we mixing up two uses of the word "track", ie, it can mean "a piece of music (what a dj plays)" or it can mean "a channel on the mixer"?

i think you might be talking about the first one - "how do i put another loop into a sinlge clip (a single piece of music)?". and the answer to that is, you can't, you can only have one pair of loop markers in one clip. if you want to loop another section, then you need to copy the clip/track/tune/whatever you want to call it, and put the loop markers elsewhere.

if i've misunderstood, and you actually meant the second meaning of "track", then like nick said above, no amount of forum posts will help, you need to read the manual.

cheers.

Yeah that's what I mean, but there is so solution I see.

no. but it's not really that big a deal to have two copies of the same clip with different loop markers, is it? and if you could have two loops in one clip, how would you play them?

Abbie, are you using Live Lite? If I recall, it is limited to one clip per track.