Technique For Loops Playback, instruments uses Options

[RayS]

I have an unusual request from a choreographer:

I need to slip-in a short repititious loop of as yet undetermined lenght and on cue! let the rest of the music follow naturally as if performed live by symphony musicians.Now usually this would not be a problem to "collage" the whole thing but how to edit the clips on the go with 100% accuracy night after night.

I've tried ableton live but that was off half of the time,tried megaseg got lucky once or twice but not for live,melodyne ,recycle,reason but so far nothing works well enough.The best results for this live thing have actually been from Protools,manipulating the clips in real time (moving actual audio clips while the loop is playing and actually snugging in the cut on to the loop on cue (well a bar or two behind but cleanly).So any one out there with an idea?

Tanks


RayS

[angryman]

You should buy a hardware sampler and press the buttons to trigger the samples as you and when you need to. This will give you ultimate control and will sound more natural too as you can tap tap away at the buttons as the performance goes on...