How to set up LOOPER within Ableton Live SUPER FAST
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Ableton Live has a brilliant effect called Looper, which emulates guitar looper pedals such as the Boss RC1. In this video I show you the BEST WAY to set the effect up over 2 tracks to ensure that you get the best out of the program.
Watch this video for in depth, step by step instructions, with clear explanations and rationale.
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00:00 - intro
00:21 - setup tracks
01:02 - keyboard track example
02:18 - keyboard looper example
03:10 - sound is doubled
03:27 - the Looper effect
05:15 - detailed looper settings
07:01 - example of routing
07:44 - setting the level
08:31 - setting up more instruments
09:32 - automation
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This is the exact video i was looking for. As soon as you showed your track setup it just clicked for me what went wrong in my tries of setting up loopers. Thank you so much!
Liked and subbed👍
Really pleased this has worked for you. The looper is such a great effect! I hope you gain many hours of joy from it!
Thank you for a clear, focused and concise presentation. I love Ableton Live but continue to use a physical looping setup controlled by midi. To keep things simple, I control Ableton transport commands with keyboard shortcuts using my Morningstar MKII floor midi controller. I searched but cannot find keyboard shortcuts for the "looper pedal" in Ableton. Maybe those functions are subsumed in the play and stop keyboard commands. I play guitar so using the physical keyboard to control looping just doesn't work. Yea, I could use MIDI with Ableton, but that's another "issue." Anyway, thanks for clarifying the mystifying!
Brilliant, mate. Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you so much, really appreciate the comment and kind words!
Thanks for the time you took on this video...... very useful.
No worries, I’m really glad you found it helpful! Let me know if there is anything else I can cover!
Really useful bits in this (I've used Ableton for a long time, but rarely the looper). Well explained and understood. Cheers for the vid!
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Thank a lot for sharing. Very easy o follow !! :)
Thanks, that makes me want to make more!
Dope. I'm glad I ran into this vid.
Thank you for the comment! How are you using (or planning to use) the looper in your set up?
Great video! subscribed! keep em coming ☺👊🏻
Thanks s much for the comment - I will keep the vids coming!
Hey Oliver! As a new Ableton convert, this video is absolutely awesome! I'm beginning a brand new musical chapter and very thankful to have discovered your channel. Thanks for the great info and such clear explanations. Liked - Subscribed and Followed! ;)
Thank you Damian! It is people like you that make me keep making videos! Best of luck with your journey, I hope you get as much out of Ableton as I have!
Awesome video and great reference material! Part of the reason I recently opted to get Ableton instead of a hardware pedal.
You have made my day! I feel really proud to have helped you get there! Good luck mate!
you should have more subs, your videos are great. keep it up
Thanks you for the kind words! I will keep smashing these out!
Oliver great video -- thank you. Could you use multiple loopers to do a Verse - Chorus - Bridge thing? How would you set it up and switch parts? I've seen the automation thing with Elise T but is there a simpler way to do this on the fly? Very much appreciated.
This is a tricky thing to do, but is definitely possible. There are a couple of strategies. If you have 3 loopers setup, 1 can be the rhythm, the second the verse, the third the chorus. Starting and stopping 2 loopers can need quite a few presses, so this can be challenging. Another option might be to use redo and undo to add or subtract parts
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Thanks for the feedback. I agree! In watching this back it is too loud! Thanks
Hallo! Thanks for the tutorial!
I like to play free form stuff and everchanging speeds and tempos. I like the fact that Looper can set the song tempo usingthe lenght of the incoming loop, and it can change the tempo with different new incoming loops after clearing. But it seems happening only if the song is stopped. I'd like the tempo adaptation to happen on the fly. Don't like the fact that the song stops when I clear the looper buffer. Is there a trick or workaround? Didi I miss something?
Thanks! I can’t think of a workaround to this I’m afraid, I think the tempo automation only works when stopped. I think for your second point, if the looper is not set to ‘start/stop’ then clearing the looper shouldn’t result in your song stopping
@@olivergearing Oh yes I'm aware of that. Anyway, I wonder if it could be useful to make a request to Ableton, for a new feature, or let's call it an implementation on one of the Looper features. It would be like "PLEASE apply tempo change automation by new loop length without stopping the song". Right?
what do you set your buffer size as? lowest i can go is 128 without sacrificing CPU and then I run into latency issues with looping
Interesting - I normally go for 256, and it doesn’t affect my looping. Does it tell you how much latency you are getting in terms of milliseconds? I am not a computer whizz, but would assume it might be something to do with the PC or Mac? I normally get 13ms (from memory) latency at about 256 - I’ve tried higher buffer sizes and started to notice the latency, so I guess this must be an OK level of latency for me. I hope you don’t need a new computer!
@@olivergearingthanks! I actually rearranged my routing and it worked much better. I sadly do believe I probably need a new laptop (only 8GB) and I tend to run big projects lol.
Thanks for the great video!
@@adbmusicify I’m glad there was a workaround!
Wish I had seen this video 3 weeks ago! Just bought a boss rc-202 and now realize I had a kipper all along with ableton! SMH!
Thanks for the comment! Hopefully you can still get lots of value out of both? For example, I struggle to take ableton on the road due to the number of extra bits of gear that are needed. The RC202 is pretty good plug and play!
This looper doesn't appear to be present in Live 11 Lite, am I missing it or it's not included?
Apologies, I said ‘lite’ in the video, I meant ‘intro’. Live Lite is the free version that often comes free with hardware purchases. The 3 main paid versions of Ableton (intro, standard and suite) all come with looper. Apologies for my error.
Subscribed. Thank you. Now moar plz.
Thank you! I am working on the next one - how to loop like Ortopilot!
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