🤯 Ableton Live Hacks: One-Button Trigger to Repeat a Song Section

Use this hack to control and trigger loops and repeat song sections in Ableton Live with your keyboard or a MIDI controller.
Running tracks linearly in Arrangement View doesn’t mean you have to be restricted to that exact song structure. You can repeat, skip, and/or cut sections on the fly by using my 3 part framework for running tracks.
In this video, I show you how you can press one button while on stage to trigger a loop and repeat a song section. This is easier than you think, and it will give you insane amounts of freedom & flexibility on stage.
What you’ll learn in this video:
- Why Live’s Loop Brace doesn’t work well on stage
- How to create a “repeat track”
- The benefits of using Arrangement view to do this
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0:00 How to Set Up Multiple Loops in Ableton Live
0:22 Previous Video: Set Up a Virtual Midi Driver
0:41 Why Ableton Live's Loop Brace Isn't a Good Solution
1:07 Create a Repeat Track and Route Your MIDI
2:01 Add a MIDI Note and MIDI Map It
3:03 Arrangement View is the Better Option Compared to Session View
3:41 Add Your Repeat Clip to Every Song Section
4:22 Add Repeat Clips in Song Formatting Stage (Check Out Our Templates)
4:56 Loop by Using Commands on Your Keyboard
5:46 Reasons Why I Like Using This Method to Loop
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6:44 How to Set Up Loop Using a MIDI Controller
7:42 Downside to Using MIDI Controller to Loop
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[@charleschuck8696]

This guy here is a legend ❤

[@taniagreen4545]

Your knowledge and how you are able to explain everything is astounding. I got Ableton so I could play the aux and main keys at the same time while also managing a click and guide cues. Of all the resources out there, YOU have helped me more than anyone else. I've done your weeklong lessons and have been diving in your content here; you are a wealth of knowledge and I can't tell you just how much I appreciate what you do. On this lesson, I can't seem to get my MIDI clip to map to the previous locater in the way yours does; I seem to just be mapping to the previous locator in general, and not in association with the MIDI clip. What am I not understanding?

[@bigavsha]

Your channel blows my mind. Almost 99% of all Ableton tutorials out there aim for studio production and you're bringing in the missing pieces. Thank you. I've been stressfully running my shows in session view for the last 6 years, thinking it's giving me more control, always having to calculate each bar when setting up launch triggers and never able to change anything before the show. Your tips helped me see why arrangment view is the probably the best way for me to work. Thank you so much.

[@fromstudiotostage]

This made my day! Thanks for taking the time to share and thanks for watching!

[@adamjsharp]

Love this! Thank you so much!

[@Spladoinkal]

Thank you SOOOO much for this! I thought we were going to be stuck pressing the previous locater button within the last measure of each section to repeat properly. Can be a little awkward when we don't have a dedicated "Ableton guy" and have to do it while playing an instrument. This helps SO much!

[@scottall71]

This series explaining the IAC driver has been great! I am using the stop trick from your last vid in all my song files now. For every small thing you need to do it's a multi-layered complex 'workaround' process and every little tip/technique helps! I'm a guitarist, and all I want to do is make a clip, to be played whenever I step on my foot pedal. (which is a sustain pedal connected to the keyboard controller.) I think your tip here can be midi routed to that rather than a keystroke. I would LOVE to figure out how to make not just one, but multiple segments that trigger each time you press. But in the case of 1 clip, I currently have this going now, but when I press the pedal, it's terribly out of sync - it's a different timing/delay glitch [I'm calling this a glitch] every time and I'm trying to iron this out. I don't need to explain this, but precise timing in a live performance is critical.

[@samuelcharrier8164]

Hello, this is wonderfull, thank you to share your high level on Ableton. I have a question about playing live, with Ableton, can you have a mix of tracks playing in both mode, like, 1 song in Session mode and the second one in arrange mode😩

[@pallelarsen]

This is so helpfull! However it seems to jump back two locators. Anything i forgot?

[@hendriknitsche9336]

Hey :) Thank you very much for all you videos. I was watching many of them but always I feel really tired while doing so. Therefore I‘d like to give you some constructive criticism today: I think I miss an informal information that just states the idea behind your following explaining. You just tell the issue you want to solve and proceed with the implementation of the solution. I think it would be very helpful to put a little idea preview in between.

[@johnnylinks2872]

Hi will , thanks again for your time you put in to put this together ,,,My midi note that is supposed to trigger to the previuos locator scrolls through all locators to the first one ,,, what could i have done wrong please.

[@iamcameronstory]

My previous locator button doesn’t seem to be engaging when I try this. Any insight?

[@EvandroFermata]

Ola! Sou brasileiro, e curto muito seus videos! parabéns! tenho uma pergunta: consegui fazer certinho conforme seu video ensina, mas quando clico algum midi clip ou audio sample que está na Session View, o drive Loop Midi ou Loop bee trava, e a ação Repetir ou parar não funciona, o que faço pra não travar? Obrigado

[@desmondmyers]

This works great for the key mapping but when trying to map it midi controller I’m running into an issue where the midi controller gets an IN AND OUT message at the same time and the track never turns on just stays greyed out. I’ve reviewed my settings and have enabled the controller to only be remote input but nonetheless I can’t get this mapping to work. Any ideas?

This is great, your content is amazing. One question, I use a footswitch to play each set, can I disable the loop or go to the next section with the same fw pedal? I have seen the twenty one pilots drummer do the same, he has the play control and deactivates the loop or goes through the section with the same pedal

[@fromstudiotostage]

You'll need two separate MIDI commands for that function. As long as your pedal can send separate commands you can make it happen

@@fromstudiotostage That is, from the spd sx would I have to change the "adjustment" of the "internal" MIDI note?

[@kaiser1408]

first thank for all the help bro, second... i try this in ableton 11.3.3 and is not working... i dont know why..

[@fromstudiotostage]

Check your Virtual MIDI settings, this works on all versions/editions of Ableton

[@drewhugginsmusic423]

SO Ive tried this and it isnt actually working

[@raphaeldaniel5421]

will the loops be affected if I transpose the entire project

[@fromstudiotostage]

No

[@samuelcharrier8164]

Oups,wrong key,sorry yes, one song you can jam with loops in session and second song in linear mode? Thx

[@Spladoinkal]

Just put the loop parts in everything but keep it disabled when you only want to play the song linearly.