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

[td3k]

I tried with live 4 but I can"t seem to get the timing right ,I have to anticipate the next go but the previous sample that is looped does not play till it's end it sometimes stops mid sample and the song switches to the next sample or clip.

Have you tried setting the quantization to 'None' ? That would let you drop a clip at any time you wanted.

If the Launch mode for the clip is set to 'trigger' the clip will play to the end, unless you launch another clip on the same track, or launch another scene. You could set your clips up on different tracks so they don't stop mid-sample as you set in another clip on time. You could also use the tap tempo if you need to adjust.

Just a thought.