VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE! (I fiddled around hours :D) You must have the setting "Start playback with record" on in order for it to work properly. Preferences -> Record/Warp/Launch
After spending an hour looking for answers on real time looping with instruments / vocals in Ableton this video gave me exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Taetro!
Gotta say, this is the best way to do this that I've seen demonstrated on youtube. Thank you. After watching looper tutorial after looper tutorial, this method is clearly dramatically better.
Well done. So many "loop pedal in Ableton Live" videos are much more complicated and use looper. Looper is great but looping via new clips gives you so much more control. Also, the idea of using the sustain pedal was pure brilliance. Well done.
Holy Crap it works!! I just had to assign the pedal and unassign it about 4 times for some reason. Thank u!! I have been trying to figure this out since Live 8.
Taetro, thank you so much for this video it was very helpful! I’m an advanced classical cellist and I am venturing out into the improvisation arena. I can’t seem to get the loop pedal to work in my audio track. It will record the loop and play it back but it will not overdub when I hold it down. Everything else works great including with my Midi. I use Ableton Live 10, Oxygen 64 Midi with an Apogee mic. Thank you!
Very very cool! I was looking for a way to integrate my looper pedal with Ableton... now I realize I don't need the looper pedal. Looking forward to setting this up and giving it a go. Thank you so much for posting!
I am now switching from live perf. looping w/ RC-300 to looping w/ Ableton only. I'm having difficulties converting. One issue with what Taetro presented (obvious to looper pedal users), is that at the end of recording, a looper pedal goes from record straight to overdub (i.e. laying down the second, third, etc. layers of a single loop). Here you have to manually arm, then record a second, third, fourth, etc. track to result in the same total overdub effect. As if that weren't enough, another issue: If on an overdub pass you miss the start of the loop even by one second: on a looper pedal that is no problem, the loop is already set and you can start adding overdubs at any time, it will be in perfect sync. But with Ableton, every "overdub" track must start at the beginning of the loop, and be exactly of the same length; all of them; or else significant unsync issues happen. So if you miss the start of an overdub loop, you must wait out the entire loop and try again at the start of the next one. Lastly Ableton has no easy (pedal controlled) delete and undo/redo. I'd appreciate any insight or help.
I've been looking for a pedal to do looping with beats and guitar but now I know I can just use a sustain pedal for foot control!! This saved me a lot of money
Good tutorial. Consider mapping a knob to the boxed number next to those scene select arrows. If you're short on buttons it's a good way to select scenes as you can roll through em.
Thanks so much, that was so clearly explained and much appreciated. One quick question: just with what you were doing in this video, is there any major advantage that the Push has over the APC40 (I have the latter but not the former, and am wondering how much it is worth it to have both). Cheers!
Hey. I have the guitar and going to buy launchpad MKII, want to use it like "look pedal". Loop is just insane thing for improvisation, can I realise that with that "novation launchpad MKII". YOu are just the first video I found so sorry for maybe the easy question, appreciate your videos, i like it also
If you don't like the fact that you have to keep the pedal depressed while you're looping, you can use a guitar amp on-off channel footswitch instead of a sustain pedal. That type of pedal only sends a signal when pressed but not when released, so it works even better for looping.
You made my life so easy which was totally 'looping' around the wrong information before this video! Thanks so very much man! May you win Grammy someday :D cheers mate :)
I've been looking for ways on how to do this for a while now, and your video popped up randomly. Thank you so much! I'll be setting up a live rig in the near future, and will be using this! :)
This video is finally out! Thanks Taetro, appreciated! Getting a pedal tomorrow! About the video, this is so professional. Nice job! So the push works that way straight out of the box?
Thank you Francesco! One of Push's pedal ports is literally for the session record button, and then you don't have to map a way to arm tracks because it is built in nor do you have to map scene up/down because there's arrow keys.
Thanks for the helpful video! Could you tell me if this would operate the same way if I was using a software looper like Mobius or anything else? How would you map this sustain pedal to a certain function inside of a VST plugin if there are no options on the VST plugin itself to change them? Subbed! Looking forward to more videos from you!
IVe really got to say thanks and well done on your channel, you obviously put a lot of effort in and your videos are really clear and easy to understand unlike a lot of ableton related things hahaha,
There's a guy that uses the Ableton LOOPER. he sets up 2 of them. He sets up the control with a foot switch.... So one is set to Start and the Second Loop starts by hitting stop on the First LOOPER. I think from memory it is the Seed to Stage guy.
Awesome man, this is amazing info! I need to pick myself up a control with sustain input in it. I have been wanting to get a new MIDI keyboard so I will make sure I will get one with that input available. I came here looking for info on how to use my boss rc-300 in conjuction with Ableton, but it seems I won't necessarily need to, but I may be better off just using a footswitch and investing in the effect pedals I am needing to use in conjunction with the Boss-Rc300 seperately for performance. Thanks for the video, this has been helpful. There is so much to learn, it is crazy! It gets pretty technical at times!
Yes! This is extremely useful when jamming midi with live instruments in a live setting which is something I've been trying to implement more in my live performances. This method is proper for doing just that as long as all of the latency setting are set correctly. The sustain pedal is Ideal for my guitar looping simply because I mostly play one rhythm guitar part and use my other guitar channels to accent each other in sequence. I'm using the Novation Lauchkey mini MK3, and to assign the sustain pedal would make things more seamless when playing all the way through the end of the loop.
This is great. So you are able to keep the Push in regular Push mode while plugging in the loop pedal to it and mapping it? I thought the Push had to be in Midi mode in order to map the pedal while connected to the Push.
I have had this sustain pedal for my keyboard for a million years and I had no idea this was possible! This opens up a whole new world of possibilities! You've changed my entire workflow, thank you so much! Quick question though: I'm finding that when I press the pedal again, it's taking a few bars to stop again, so I'm not getting a clean loop. How do I make it stop the loop as soon as I hit the pedal like I would with a guitar loop pedal for example? or how many bars ahead of time do you have to hit the pedal to stop the loop and have it be clean?
Hi, nice video! I'm playing Midigitar program in my mac using a Abogee Duet as a sound card. I want to have a easy way of using a launchPAD Mini with Ableton Live Lite. Is it possible to connect the food pedal through another midi controller than the Launch Pad? I have a iRig Keys I could use. If I understood right it should be possible to create an Aggregate Device and this way direct the different controllers to different programs active in the Mac? I dont want to use looper with the gitar, but I want to set up steady drum loops that works to my music and an easy way of trigger them. I might also be able to us the iRig Keys as a controller, but think the LaunchPAD Mini will be easier to use. Do you have any thoughts on this? Greetings from Norway:-)
where did you learn to use ableton? sound stupid but I'm newbie on that kind of stuff, I'd like to learn to usi it to recording guitar and voice. if you suggest me a guide or book or course, thank you
Great setup! I've used this for a while until I needed to play with someone else. Then it became difficult to record things at the same time, so I think I'm going for the looper, even tough it's not my favorite. Would be great to be able to midi map the pedal to record/overdub only selected track(s).
I love you ! This video rocks. Do you think this set up would be safe for live performance ? Like would it result in computer crashes ? (i'm running a 2016 Macbook Pro with 16g ram, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 250gSSD. Also - do you think the Ableton Push is absolutely necessary ? Or would the Novation Launchkey 61 suffice ?
PS: I am wanting to build songs mostly from scratch, live using keys, electric guitar, drums - I'm thinking of getting a MIDI controller drum pad too.... I'm not so into the idea of playing beats with my fingers, but like the idea of using drum sticks. Cheers.
solid video dude ;) Nice & simple, and getting the message across . Thanks! Have you tried a bigger pedal.. for..eg.. that would allow you to arm tracks and launch them , all from the pedal ? Or would you rather launch them via Push ?
Any other midi pedal solution I’ve researched is SUPER overpriced which is how I came up with this. You could use a controller with multiple pedal inputs.
Hey! This is great! This is how are I do all my looping live. I was just wondering if you know how to have more control over the volume and tone of the guitar? Once it is being played over the live loops as its often too quite in comparison, even when I have my interface 50/50 on input and playback. Any thoughts would be mega helpful! Cheers Bro :)
Hey can you show a version of this with adding FX automation to tracks? I'm trying to migrate from an RC505 to using ableton as a looper, but I want to make sure that I can get a hands on FX setup of some sort going, and I'd love to see some examples! I want real time FX manipulation, at least as good as the 505.. For instance, can I easily que on or multiple effects on a single track? Also.. is there any way you can share this project as a template for us to download to get started? Thanks so muuch!!
Appreciate the tutorial! this is the basis for what I'm trying to do and struggling with big time...Live looping using multiple instrument racks. For example, an instrument rack that contains 10-20 drum kits, another track containing 15+ bass sounds, another for keys, and so on. I've managed to load my favorite drum and bass sounds into their own instrument racks, but am struggling to route them properly and have the work flow be possible. I'm using push 2 and an apc40. I bought the fcb 1010 foot controller but haven't gotten as far as to apply it to this setup. Any advice is greatly appreciated! :)
Thanks for this Taetro - totally learned to use my launchkey from your video :P I have one question - do you have a solution for once your project exceeds 8 tracks? The problem with that is we run out of buttons on Launchkey to assign the "Arm Recording" function from track 9 onwards. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks so much :)
Thanks for posting these videos. I had this idea a few days ago... I plugged a pedal into the sustain port of my Launchkey 49 and mapped it to Session record just like you... it works, but my question is this: Can I make the pedal act like the Pads on the Launchkey? Meaning, if I record something into slot 1 of the first scene, then move down to the next slot of the next scene, the pad on the Launchkey will turn red and hitting that pad will now start recording in that scene. However, if I try the same thing with the footpedal, it won't record in the newly selected blank scene, but only work as an overdub for the previously recorded clip. I'd like to record one scene (intro), have it play, then move down to the next scene (with the Scene up/down buttons), hit record on the footswitch, and have it start recording on the next clip slot. (Essentially acting the same way as the pads on the Launchkey) That way I can seamlessly go from one idea to the other. Kind of hard to explain, but does that make sense? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
thanks for the tutorial. in the video, you mapped abletons scene up/down buttons. when i tried the setup you described, i recorded an audio clip in scene 1 on chanel 1 and wanted to record a new clip in scene 2 on the same chanel. but my pedal just triggers the clip in scene 1 again, instead of recording in scene 2. did i miss something?
Thank you so much taetro after watching your videos you been wanting me to jump in to wanting to start producing! I have a question though on what does the focusrite 2i2 can do and it's full potential I know it is a interface with a lot of software and also that it could record live music I just want to know about what it could do with a midi controller such as the akai mkII? I'm really debating if I should get it or not...
What version of ableton do you have? There is an Amp & cab audio effect that are great. For now you should look into EQ, compression, overdrive, and reverb.
I am an acoustic percussionist. I am on a mission and working on a solo show. I want to loop my instruments and mix them in Ableton and use it as a live show as a DJ set and an acoustic act. What would you suggest would be my best tools? It seems like it would be Ableton push, Bosch loop pedal and scarlet box for recording? Would appreciate your take on this.
I am in fact on the same mission. Am i crazy for thinking i should use my mixer for all my drums inidividually and just throw that mixer into abletons looper? idk it sounds like a simple enough solution but i feel like its too good to be true.
Hello mate. Enjoyed the video. @3:56 you talk about arming tracks from the controller. Are you able to do this with the keys on the midi controller as well? Mine doesn't have the track select buttons but I'm wondering if you can just use the black keys or something?
Hey, I'll have a question for you. I created a melody on ableton via the looper on the piano, and then I added drum (on the same looper). And I wanted to know if it was possible to go back, just to keep the piano. Thanks for your answer, Marie.
Thanks man. I am really struggling to understand how can I set a fixed for audio clips. In the video you record the guitar and then it automatically loops, as the length of the clip was previously set or something similar... Maybe this can be done only through the push? There's no way to automatically loop an audio clip after a certain amount of beats, so I am constrained to press record when I start and on the beat end which is kinda frustrating and sometimes even difficult depending on what I am playing.
There is a real advantage in using looper for the first loop in that it sets the bpm for live to follow which I find far less restrictive and more creative than playing to a click with an initial idea. Otherwise I use a method very similar to yours using left right navigation and overdub to fill up the live session.
I don't have a way to record and loop live instruments, but I am glad I watched this. If I ever get the stuff I need, I'm totally gonna try this. Also, is that a lightsaber in the back?
Taetro I also noticed that nerf dart on the ground, and I thought to myself 'thank god I'm not the only one that's still a kid at heart'. Mine is red, what color is yours?
how u keep the notes quantized? like it always "unquantize" me because I have to move my hand to stop it, so it records slience, how'd u do that? or is it just something that the ableton push does?
Someone tell me what soft soft means
VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE! (I fiddled around hours :D)
You must have the setting "Start playback with record" on in order for it to work properly. Preferences -> Record/Warp/Launch
After spending an hour looking for answers on real time looping with instruments / vocals in Ableton this video gave me exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Taetro!
Gotta say, this is the best way to do this that I've seen demonstrated on youtube. Thank you. After watching looper tutorial after looper tutorial, this method is clearly dramatically better.
thanks dapht! One of the reasons I made this was because this seemed like the simplest way...but I couldn't find it anywhere. Glad you agree!
Well done. So many "loop pedal in Ableton Live" videos are much more complicated and use looper. Looper is great but looping via new clips gives you so much more control. Also, the idea of using the sustain pedal was pure brilliance. Well done.
Thank you Alex! Glad you enjoyed the vid. I 100% agree with your take on other videos out there which is why I've wanted to do this for a long time.
Absolutely
First video I've seen in which somebody actually plugs a guitar in and records. This is all new to me and I needed this to happen. Thanks!
FINALLY!!! I've been searching on how to do this for months!!! Thank you so much!
Trust me I've been wanting to make a video like this for a while because no one seems to do it this way!! Glad it's helpful Luis!
I was searching this tutorial for so long... THANK YOU!!!
Holy Crap it works!! I just had to assign the pedal and unassign it about 4 times for some reason. Thank u!! I have been trying to figure this out since Live 8.
Taetro, thank you so much for this video it was very helpful! I’m an advanced classical cellist and I am venturing out into the improvisation arena. I can’t seem to get the loop pedal to work in my audio track. It will record the loop and play it back but it will not overdub when I hold it down. Everything else works great including with my Midi. I use Ableton Live 10, Oxygen 64 Midi with an Apogee mic. Thank you!
Very very cool! I was looking for a way to integrate my looper pedal with Ableton... now I realize I don't need the looper pedal. Looking forward to setting this up and giving it a go. Thank you so much for posting!
glad I could help!
Thank god I've been looking for this for ages. You saved me from buying an expensive loop station or something like that !
happy to help Noel!
thanx for this, it changed my life. I'm developing my Ableton set up for looping and this was so helpful.
+Ola Szmidt glad I could help!!
I am now switching from live perf. looping w/ RC-300 to looping w/ Ableton only. I'm having difficulties converting. One issue with what Taetro presented (obvious to looper pedal users), is that at the end of recording, a looper pedal goes from record straight to overdub (i.e. laying down the second, third, etc. layers of a single loop). Here you have to manually arm, then record a second, third, fourth, etc. track to result in the same total overdub effect. As if that weren't enough, another issue: If on an overdub pass you miss the start of the loop even by one second: on a looper pedal that is no problem, the loop is already set and you can start adding overdubs at any time, it will be in perfect sync. But with Ableton, every "overdub" track must start at the beginning of the loop, and be exactly of the same length; all of them; or else significant unsync issues happen. So if you miss the start of an overdub loop, you must wait out the entire loop and try again at the start of the next one. Lastly Ableton has no easy (pedal controlled) delete and undo/redo. I'd appreciate any insight or help.
Excellent, a concise to the point and logical description of how to loop in ableton live. I’ll be trying this soon since you made it easy
Woo! It IS easy for sure
Finally easy understandable video for how to set the looping session, Taetro
Awesome! I was searching long time for a tutorial like this one! Straight foward and complete
Hi, thanks for the tutorial! The overdubbing doesn't work when i try it. At least with audio recordings. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks taetro for responsing to my comment in the last video. i've been waitin for this.
any time andy! hope you enjoy the video!
Woah... two responsings? What???
Great review! It was very helpful. Can you make a video using the Nektar Pacer Footswitch Controller with a Keyboard? Thank you for sharing this!
Great video. To the point, helpful, and clearly communicated.
haha so happy to see years later this video is still helping!
Thank you from France man, your videos are always very useful !
cheers from the US to France! Glad you're enjoying the vids :)
I've been looking for a pedal to do looping with beats and guitar but now I know I can just use a sustain pedal for foot control!! This saved me a lot of money
I explain it using my akai mpk mini as well in this video: ua-cam.com/video/5i8YwcYt-mc/v-deo.html
Taetro that's the keyboard I have sweet! Thank you
Good tutorial. Consider mapping a knob to the boxed number next to those scene select arrows. If you're short on buttons it's a good way to select scenes as you can roll through em.
+Alf Sanford good tip! Thanks for watching Alf!
Thanks! Just what I was looking for. Couple of little things I would have spent ages trying to work out!
Wow! I've been trying to figure out how to use looper for weeks but this method is just what I needed. Thanks so much for this great video 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Vernon - let me know how it goes using this way of looping!
THANK YOU TAETRO! So clear and easy to follow!
Thanks so much, that was so clearly explained and much appreciated. One quick question: just with what you were doing in this video, is there any major advantage that the Push has over the APC40 (I have the latter but not the former, and am wondering how much it is worth it to have both). Cheers!
Word I feel like a who new creative possibility has opened
awesome! glad you feel that way...time to capitalize on that feeling and make some music!!
Hey. I have the guitar and going to buy launchpad MKII, want to use it like "look pedal". Loop is just insane thing for improvisation, can I realise that with that "novation launchpad MKII". YOu are just the first video I found so sorry for maybe the easy question, appreciate your videos, i like it also
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If you don't like the fact that you have to keep the pedal depressed while you're looping, you can use a guitar amp on-off channel footswitch instead of a sustain pedal. That type of pedal only sends a signal when pressed but not when released, so it works even better for looping.
Really good lesson, clear and to the point. Could you make a video about adding effects to the differents channels? that would be great!
finally a straightforward and simple explanation 👍🏻
You made my life so easy which was totally 'looping' around the wrong information before this video! Thanks so very much man! May you win Grammy someday :D cheers mate :)
I've been looking for ways on how to do this for a while now, and your video popped up randomly. Thank you so much! I'll be setting up a live rig in the near future, and will be using this! :)
glad I could help Gentle Giant!
wow this is exactly what I wanted
3000 subs big congrats taetro ur growin fast
woooooooo thanks golden!!
This video is finally out! Thanks Taetro, appreciated! Getting a pedal tomorrow!
About the video, this is so professional. Nice job! So the push works that way straight out of the box?
Thank you Francesco! One of Push's pedal ports is literally for the session record button, and then you don't have to map a way to arm tracks because it is built in nor do you have to map scene up/down because there's arrow keys.
My wallet is already crying
Thanks for the helpful video! Could you tell me if this would operate the same way if I was using a software looper like Mobius or anything else? How would you map this sustain pedal to a certain function inside of a VST plugin if there are no options on the VST plugin itself to change them? Subbed! Looking forward to more videos from you!
IVe really got to say thanks and well done on your channel, you obviously put a lot of effort in and your videos are really clear and easy to understand unlike a lot of ableton related things hahaha,
thanks Will! so glad the vids are coming across well :)
Thank you for this great and simple to understand video !
Do you ever use the looper effect on Ableton. Or just clips in session view?
If you have a push you can set it to fixed length that way it loops back automatically after how ever many bars you set it to.
So young, so useful still! I just got a pedal to use with Push 2!
There's a guy that uses the Ableton
LOOPER.
he sets up 2 of them.
He sets up the control with a foot switch....
So one is set to Start and the Second Loop starts by hitting stop on the First LOOPER.
I think from memory it is the Seed to Stage guy.
Thanks, I’ll try this out.
Thanks! Note Push 2 users the pedal goes into slot 2 ! This had me stumped for hours :-/
Does this work for generic 2 or 3 way pedals? So like could I program 1 start stop 2 undo 3 reverse or something like that?
just what i was looking for with setting up a piano pedal to record! thanks dude
+Just a Piece of the Puzzle gotchu covered!
Cool approach, nice sounds! Thanks for sharing.
Is there any way to select a clip within a track in a different scene to record without clicking it with a mouse? Maybe a button on push?
check out selected_track_control remote scripts. if u wanna map everything..:)
I second this question 🙏
Awesome man, this is amazing info! I need to pick myself up a control with sustain input in it. I have been wanting to get a new MIDI keyboard so I will make sure I will get one with that input available.
I came here looking for info on how to use my boss rc-300 in conjuction with Ableton, but it seems I won't necessarily need to, but I may be better off just using a footswitch and investing in the effect pedals I am needing to use in conjunction with the Boss-Rc300 seperately for performance.
Thanks for the video, this has been helpful.
There is so much to learn, it is crazy! It gets pretty technical at times!
Hi Shane, out of interest did you replace your RC-300 with ableton?
thank u man seriously ....I was messed up .....this video is much helpful
Stoked to help!
Man thank you so much for being here ! Suscribed and liked !
Yes! This is extremely useful when jamming midi with live instruments in a live setting which is something I've been trying to implement more in my live performances. This method is proper for doing just that as long as all of the latency setting are set correctly. The sustain pedal is Ideal for my guitar looping simply because I mostly play one rhythm guitar part and use my other guitar channels to accent each other in sequence. I'm using the Novation Lauchkey mini MK3, and to assign the sustain pedal would make things more seamless when playing all the way through the end of the loop.
super helpful. Thanks for sharing!
This is great. So you are able to keep the Push in regular Push mode while plugging in the loop pedal to it and mapping it? I thought the Push had to be in Midi mode in order to map the pedal while connected to the Push.
You explain it so well , loved tNice tutorials tutorial.
I have had this sustain pedal for my keyboard for a million years and I had no idea this was possible! This opens up a whole new world of possibilities! You've changed my entire workflow, thank you so much! Quick question though: I'm finding that when I press the pedal again, it's taking a few bars to stop again, so I'm not getting a clean loop. How do I make it stop the loop as soon as I hit the pedal like I would with a guitar loop pedal for example? or how many bars ahead of time do you have to hit the pedal to stop the loop and have it be clean?
Ableton has record quantization, always punches in/out on the down beat.
Thanks man! That makes a lot of sense
Hi, nice video! I'm playing Midigitar program in my mac using a Abogee Duet as a sound card. I want to have a easy way of using a launchPAD Mini with Ableton Live Lite. Is it possible to connect the food pedal through another midi controller than the Launch Pad? I have a iRig Keys I could use. If I understood right it should be possible to create an Aggregate Device and this way direct the different controllers to different programs active in the Mac? I dont want to use looper with the gitar, but I want to set up steady drum loops that works to my music and an easy way of trigger them. I might also be able to us the iRig Keys as a controller, but think the LaunchPAD Mini will be easier to use. Do you have any thoughts on this? Greetings from Norway:-)
Great vid. Thanks! Is there any ‘undo’ functionality that you have in case you mess up? Or is that ‘ctrl z’ on the laptop?
with push there is an undo function, but ctrl z may be the best option otherwise
master of the universe!
:D thanks sergio!
where did you learn to use ableton? sound stupid but I'm newbie on that kind of stuff, I'd like to learn to usi it to recording guitar and voice. if you suggest me a guide or book or course, thank you
Great setup! I've used this for a while until I needed to play with someone else. Then it became difficult to record things at the same time, so I think I'm going for the looper, even tough it's not my favorite. Would be great to be able to midi map the pedal to record/overdub only selected track(s).
you should try using Ableton Link!
Super helpful. Just what I was looking for! :)
Great video! I am running Live Lite 8 and don't have a Session Record button along the top of the window like you. Is there one in 8?
I love you ! This video rocks. Do you think this set up would be safe for live performance ? Like would it result in computer crashes ? (i'm running a 2016 Macbook Pro with 16g ram, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 250gSSD.
Also - do you think the Ableton Push is absolutely necessary ? Or would the Novation Launchkey 61 suffice ?
PS: I am wanting to build songs mostly from scratch, live using keys, electric guitar, drums - I'm thinking of getting a MIDI controller drum pad too.... I'm not so into the idea of playing beats with my fingers, but like the idea of using drum sticks. Cheers.
solid video dude ;)
Nice & simple, and getting the message across . Thanks!
Have you tried a bigger pedal.. for..eg.. that would allow you to arm tracks and launch them , all from the pedal ? Or would you rather launch them via Push ?
Any other midi pedal solution I’ve researched is SUPER overpriced which is how I came up with this. You could use a controller with multiple pedal inputs.
Thanks for sharing your method.
thanks for watching! hope it was helpful
Does it matter which pedal you use? I have a Boss loop station that I would like to hook up with Ableton Live (via a Push).
Thanks man! Super helpful 🤘
Hi Taetro,
Great information ☝️👍 Can I replace the push for the MK3? And do the same thing?
Can you overdub with the APC 40? Why did you use the push instead for live looping when you have both?
Hey! This is great! This is how are I do all my looping live. I was just wondering if you know how to have more control over the volume and tone of the guitar? Once it is being played over the live loops as its often too quite in comparison, even when I have my interface 50/50 on input and playback. Any thoughts would be mega helpful! Cheers Bro :)
Great tutorial! Many thanks!
Hey can you show a version of this with adding FX automation to tracks? I'm trying to migrate from an RC505 to using ableton as a looper, but I want to make sure that I can get a hands on FX setup of some sort going, and I'd love to see some examples! I want real time FX manipulation, at least as good as the 505.. For instance, can I easily que on or multiple effects on a single track? Also.. is there any way you can share this project as a template for us to download to get started? Thanks so muuch!!
I agree with this! Would be so helpful :)
Appreciate the tutorial! this is the basis for what I'm trying to do and struggling with big time...Live looping using multiple instrument racks. For example, an instrument rack that contains 10-20 drum kits, another track containing 15+ bass sounds, another for keys, and so on. I've managed to load my favorite drum and bass sounds into their own instrument racks, but am struggling to route them properly and have the work flow be possible. I'm using push 2 and an apc40. I bought the fcb 1010 foot controller but haven't gotten as far as to apply it to this setup. Any advice is greatly appreciated! :)
Thankyou!!
What plugin / amp do you use for the guitar? Sounds pretty sweet
Thanks for this Taetro - totally learned to use my launchkey from your video :P I have one question - do you have a solution for once your project exceeds 8 tracks? The problem with that is we run out of buttons on Launchkey to assign the "Arm Recording" function from track 9 onwards. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks so much :)
Thanks for posting these videos.
I had this idea a few days ago... I plugged a pedal into the sustain port of my Launchkey 49 and mapped it to Session record just like you... it works, but my question is this:
Can I make the pedal act like the Pads on the Launchkey? Meaning, if I record something into slot 1 of the first scene, then move down to the next slot of the next scene, the pad on the Launchkey will turn red and hitting that pad will now start recording in that scene. However, if I try the same thing with the footpedal, it won't record in the newly selected blank scene, but only work as an overdub for the previously recorded clip. I'd like to record one scene (intro), have it play, then move down to the next scene (with the Scene up/down buttons), hit record on the footswitch, and have it start recording on the next clip slot. (Essentially acting the same way as the pads on the Launchkey) That way I can seamlessly go from one idea to the other. Kind of hard to explain, but does that make sense? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Really nice video! Thank you for the tips, gave me some good ideas!
happy to help Dysiled!
this was super helpful thank u so much
thanks for the tutorial.
in the video, you mapped abletons scene up/down buttons.
when i tried the setup you described, i recorded an audio clip in scene 1 on chanel 1 and wanted to record a new clip in scene 2 on the same chanel. but my pedal just triggers the clip in scene 1 again, instead of recording in scene 2.
did i miss something?
I second this question 🙏
Thank you so much taetro after watching your videos you been wanting me to jump in to wanting to start producing! I have a question though on what does the focusrite 2i2 can do and it's full potential I know it is a interface with a lot of software and also that it could record live music I just want to know about what it could do with a midi controller such as the akai mkII? I'm really debating if I should get it or not...
get it! You'll want an interface as well to record live acoustic instruments.
what would you suggest using for guitar fx into ableton,preferably free until I get better with ableton?thx,great tuitoral keep em coming!!!
What version of ableton do you have? There is an Amp & cab audio effect that are great. For now you should look into EQ, compression, overdrive, and reverb.
When you recorded the guitar, did you plug the sustain pedal into the Push device? Or can you just leave it in the other one?
Thanks a lot!
This is cool and helpful.
I am an acoustic percussionist. I am on a mission and working on a solo show. I want to loop my instruments and mix them in Ableton and use it as a live show as a DJ set and an acoustic act. What would you suggest would be my best tools? It seems like it would be Ableton push, Bosch loop pedal and scarlet box for recording? Would appreciate your take on this.
I am in fact on the same mission. Am i crazy for thinking i should use my mixer for all my drums inidividually and just throw that mixer into abletons looper? idk it sounds like a simple enough solution but i feel like its too good to be true.
Thanks bud. This helped a lot! :)
Incredibly helpful. Thanks!
glad you enjoyed Scott!!
You're great man. I always watch your videos. I have a question, do you know if I could do sort of the same with a Yamaha P115? Thanks in advance.
most keyboards have a USB port, check yours, usually they work as MIDI controllers
Fantastic tutorial!
thanks william!
Do I need a footswitch or can I just like put my midi controller on the floor and press the C-key or something?
Exactly how I use it ;) Thanks Taetro and keep doing great vids like this (and others :D)
We are on the sammmme wavelength. Thanks for all the support Derobla!
Hello mate. Enjoyed the video. @3:56 you talk about arming tracks from the controller. Are you able to do this with the keys on the midi controller as well? Mine doesn't have the track select buttons but I'm wondering if you can just use the black keys or something?
Hey,
I'll have a question for you. I created a melody on ableton via the looper on the piano, and then I added drum (on the same looper). And I wanted to know if it was possible to go back, just to keep the piano.
Thanks for your answer,
Marie.
You might be able to undo the last loop BUT this is why I recommend doing it across multiple tracks because you have control over everything
Thanks man.
I am really struggling to understand how can I set a fixed for audio clips. In the video you record the guitar and then it automatically loops, as the length of the clip was previously set or something similar... Maybe this can be done only through the push? There's no way to automatically loop an audio clip after a certain amount of beats, so I am constrained to press record when I start and on the beat end which is kinda frustrating and sometimes even difficult depending on what I am playing.
Awesome...thank you for sharing your ideas.
thanks so much Iohbor
There is a real advantage in using looper for the first loop in that it sets the bpm for live to follow which I find far less restrictive and more creative than playing to a click with an initial idea. Otherwise I use a method very similar to yours using left right navigation and overdub to fill up the live session.
that's a great point. a big advantage for sure. Thanks for watching Sam!
I don't have a way to record and loop live instruments, but I am glad I watched this. If I ever get the stuff I need, I'm totally gonna try this. Also, is that a lightsaber in the back?
haha WOW that is a great observation...
Taetro I also noticed that nerf dart on the ground, and I thought to myself 'thank god I'm not the only one that's still a kid at heart'. Mine is red, what color is yours?
RED. obviously. I am a Sith. I also have several nerf guns...
how u keep the notes quantized? like it always "unquantize" me because I have to move my hand to stop it, so it records slience, how'd u do that? or is it just something that the ableton push does?