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

[RayS]

Actually The problem was from Live 4 not calculating the BPM accurately.Although I was editing a short loop right on the beat, it kept showing me I was looping at 2/3 of the loop and then it would warp the tempo to adjust (that was on my B/W g3 in OS X) but when I put the same loop in Live 4 on my iBook dual usb the BPM was correct and the effect played perfecttly. Perhaps something to do with the G3 .I did eventually play the file correctly in the G3 after tapping the beats and even entering the value numerically .Legato mode did for some interesting efx but the second clip would not start where I wanted although it did start on the beat as if the timing master included all the clips .I did not go further on the legato but will explore this later

So thank you all for your help.

RayS