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👍
Thanks so much for the vid! I couldn't figure how to control the volume of the looper separate to the input. I might start using Ableton loopers instead of my RC-500 for live performances - still got to test it out for a whole band :)
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!
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!
This will be the ‘global quantise’ setting - this defines how quickly it responds. I normally set it to 1 bar, meaning it starts recording (or stops) at the beginning of the next bar. You can use ‘none’ which means it reacts instantly
I would suggest having your MIDI tracks set to ‘any instrument’, then monitoring as ‘auto’. Then when you record arm the MIDI track, it will play that instrument
I'm having issues when trying to add a 2nd looper. I have the first looper is setup like a stomp pedal looper where it sets the tempo based on the loop just and that works fine. Now I want to add a second looper and I want it to start recording when the loop come back around and stop when I tell it to stop. This doesnt seem possible? It doesnt start recording when the loop comes around, it just starts when you hit the button and It mangles the audio to match the tempo. Is it not possible?
This sounds like the sorts of problems I had when I first tried to set these up. The ‘tempo control’ setting needs to be ‘follow song tempo’ and the ‘song control’ needs to be ‘none’. Quantisation should be 1 bar - which then means the looper starts and stops everything on the first beat of the next bar. Try those settings, see if it works?
@@olivergearing Thanks for the reply. I actually did get it working. I needed to set the fist looper (or master looper) to Quantization = none, Song control = Start & Stop song and Tempo control Set & Follow song tempo. Now that I have this working, I'd like to be able to use it in a live improv setting where I am often switching instruments but also switching which instrument starts the initial loop without a bunch of hassle, changing all the settings around and just using a single midi foot controller button press. Hopefully Im not dreaming :)
@ definitely possible mate! If you put a looper on a return or send track, then use the record arm coupled with auto monitoring on your instrument tracks, this might work
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!
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?
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.
This comment is for those who are trying to use a sustain pedal 1. connect your keyboard 2.go the ableton settings 3.go to the " Link , Tempo and midi 4.turn on remote boxess (if that didn't work or wasn't there ) click the control surface, input and output and set it to your midi controller the video I learned from : ua-cam.com/video/iAaxuEl_X8Y/v-deo.html
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!
I just don't understand why you would create an entire separate track just for the looper when you can just put the looper on the same track as the instrument? I suppose the point of this is to loop more than one instrument at a time?
Good question. For me, I like to keep the input track separate from the looper track. It gives you greater flexibility. For example - if you wanted to change the volume of the looper - it’s easier as a separate track than using the level k ie inside. Or applying different effects. But as you say, using 1 track works as well
OMG finally! I watched other videos that were so complicated and I KNEW there was an easier way… LOVE THIS! THANK YOUUUU❤🎉❤
I’m so glad I was able to help! Happy looping and I hope you have a lot of fun!!
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!
thanks this really helped me understand the basics on looping!
Great to hear! Happy looping!
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!
Thanks so much for the vid! I couldn't figure how to control the volume of the looper separate to the input. I might start using Ableton loopers instead of my RC-500 for live performances - still got to test it out for a whole band :)
Good luck! Looping with bands is fun but super challenging!! You got this
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!
The most beautiful and good tutorial for this. I will try absolutely tomorrow!!!
Thank you! I hope it works out for you!
@ finally done! I am a beginner of this, now I have to learn how to use a pedal and how to save the project 🤪🤪🤪🎹🎹🎹
Thank you! Great info!
Appreciate that! Thanks and enjoy looping!
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!
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!
Mate this is great, exactly what i needed to understand
Thank you! Great to hear!
Brilliant, mate. Thank you so much for this video!
Thank you so much, really appreciate the comment and kind words!
you should have more subs, your videos are great. keep it up
Thanks you for the kind words! I will keep smashing these out!
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?
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!
Thanks! Ableton is so customisable, I wonder if you added a simple MIDI controller that could help you control everything you needed on the looper?
there is a little count in after pressing the rec button. How can i get rid of it? messing up my records all the time.
This will be the ‘global quantise’ setting - this defines how quickly it responds. I normally set it to 1 bar, meaning it starts recording (or stops) at the beginning of the next bar. You can use ‘none’ which means it reacts instantly
I have a maudio only , and I want to make sounds using VSTs of drums, bass, and then guitar, etc., using the same mini controller, how can I do that?
I would suggest having your MIDI tracks set to ‘any instrument’, then monitoring as ‘auto’. Then when you record arm the MIDI track, it will play that instrument
I'm having issues when trying to add a 2nd looper. I have the first looper is setup like a stomp pedal looper where it sets the tempo based on the loop just and that works fine. Now I want to add a second looper and I want it to start recording when the loop come back around and stop when I tell it to stop. This doesnt seem possible? It doesnt start recording when the loop comes around, it just starts when you hit the button and It mangles the audio to match the tempo. Is it not possible?
This sounds like the sorts of problems I had when I first tried to set these up. The ‘tempo control’ setting needs to be ‘follow song tempo’ and the ‘song control’ needs to be ‘none’. Quantisation should be 1 bar - which then means the looper starts and stops everything on the first beat of the next bar. Try those settings, see if it works?
@@olivergearing Thanks for the reply. I actually did get it working. I needed to set the fist looper (or master looper) to Quantization = none, Song control = Start & Stop song and Tempo control Set & Follow song tempo. Now that I have this working, I'd like to be able to use it in a live improv setting where I am often switching instruments but also switching which instrument starts the initial loop without a bunch of hassle, changing all the settings around and just using a single midi foot controller button press. Hopefully Im not dreaming :)
@ definitely possible mate! If you put a looper on a return or send track, then use the record arm coupled with auto monitoring on your instrument tracks, this might work
@ Sounds an awesome set up. Let me know if you get it flowing!
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!
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?
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.
This comment is for those who are trying to use a sustain pedal
1. connect your keyboard
2.go the ableton settings
3.go to the " Link , Tempo and midi
4.turn on remote boxess
(if that didn't work or wasn't there )
click the control surface, input and output and set it to your midi controller
the video I learned from : ua-cam.com/video/iAaxuEl_X8Y/v-deo.html
Thanks for the tips
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!
I just don't understand why you would create an entire separate track just for the looper when you can just put the looper on the same track as the instrument? I suppose the point of this is to loop more than one instrument at a time?
Good question. For me, I like to keep the input track separate from the looper track. It gives you greater flexibility. For example - if you wanted to change the volume of the looper - it’s easier as a separate track than using the level k ie inside. Or applying different effects. But as you say, using 1 track works as well
@@olivergearing thanks! I appreciate the response!
Subscribed. Thank you. Now moar plz.
Thank you! I am working on the next one - how to loop like Ortopilot!
Background music is disturbing and not necessary
Thanks for the feedback. I agree! In watching this back it is too loud! Thanks
Mayonaise go's goed with fries*
This is a fact!
nah it's called the Multi Purpose Transport Button
Such a great name LOL… I can’t get the words out!!
You lost me at 'Midi track" when recording live instruments
Ah shame! So much power in MIDI with live tracks - I promise!
how dare you use that theme
Sorry!