Iterative Live Looping with Ableton Looper Insert!

[@MaxJoplin]

There is so much info available online, but I absolutely cannot wait to take one of your courses. Having everything in one place and concisely covering everything is going to take a lot of frustration out of learning. Especially with Abelton. As soon as I learn one thing, it creates four more things I don't understand. Thank you for your work!

[@SeedtoStage]

Yeah thats kinda the thing about self guided learning. It's a jungle out there haha. We'd love to have you in the course community :)

[@spooqs]

Best Ableton / Producer / Electronic Musician community on the Internet. Hands down. We'd love to have you!

[@bcornels]

Ned Rush also has a video on this concept but you've both covered different aspects of it. I love how you've framed it as being able to fade out the previous loop and add iteratively. Fantastic stuff as always.

[@lofi-dave]

I never got my head around the looper...Now I got it.. and it's mindblowing.. thank you!

[@anythingbox]

Another amazing thing you can do that most peeps do not do with the Looper. You can add a Utility before input, and use a CC to change the pan position. By doing this before you hit record, you can create multi-layered loops that are spread out.

[@davidhallowell3457]

I want to do exactly that…but I’m so new,to Ableton I don’t quite know how to do what you’ve described. I’ll hunt a bit, but if you or anyone see this and add more detail for the newbie…I’d be grateful. Thx.

[@anythingbox]

@@davidhallowell3457 It would be a bit long-winded, but in short... Let's say you are recording a guitar to input 1 on an audio channel. Pan the input of the looper to the right, and recored something... While that loop is playing back, pan the sound of the guitar to the left, and now engage the looper... You should wind up with a stereo loop where there are two guitars playing in stereo.

[@lofi_soul_jazz]

@@anythingbox is there a benefit to doing this over using an overdub and using pan on that channel?

[@anythingbox]

@@lofi_soul_jazz Only that the finished composite .wav file has the panned layers in it...

[@metamindmusicofficial]

MIND BLOWN 🤯 So stoked to go through the Live Perfomance course

[@machinate]

Back when I taught Ableton Live tricks, my go-to "impresser" was putting a looper on a return, set feedback to zero, and feeding it back into itself, so you got the effect that you have set up here. I loooove that you can do it inside the tracks now, since recording that output gets a lot easier.

[@DokterRyConn]

The knowledge density of Seed to Stage tutorials is unmatched. Anthony don't miss!

[@krystledawne]

My mans. You are the dude. I’m seeing possibilities here, very exciting!

[@loicvalenti]

New logo is cuuute, and the video is really inspiring, good job !

[@nicoincertezza5763]

how inspiring - you nailed it again!

[@curioustin1562]

Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. 🥰 My jaw dropped. Finally got it back up again after your video was done playing. 😅

[@whitesonar]

holy stt i need to watch this again

[@torubeat]

man had no idea this routing possibility existed. thanks so much for this bro

[@kamesound]

Muy bueno este feature, no lo conocía, GRACIAS!

[@sarielorenda]

Wow, man that is amazing ! Keep the good work!

[@paulgruner9644]

Great tips for the effects loop and loop insert! Thanks

[@nichetone6547]

This is WILD. Seems like such a cool way to constantly keep the loop interesting. And when you said "reinforce the loop" towards the end, it made me think about how it probably adds so much more character to play the part again against anything new you've brought into the track vs just hearing the initial way you played the loop. Allows for a lot more dynamic interest. Thanks for sharing this!

[@nickykeys3423]

My mind is blown thank you so much

[@TomBartonMusic]

Brillant, thanks so much. This has helped me overcome a major limitation of Ableton's Looper - the lack of a true feedback-style decay, which most good hardware (delay-based) loopers have. Looper's "feedback" really only reduces the volume of existing loops so long as you're overdubbing new parts. This is annoying! But thanks to this insert option, now I can "fade out" an existing loop by riding the FX insert track's fader while looper is in overdub mode. That will work!

[@VitaliKononov]

how do you prevent abuild-up of the feedback - in my case it doubles with each repetition until the speakers expload? :)

[@HoveyKraft]

Such an awesome tip homie! Can't believe I've been sleeping on this. This is going to make my looping life way easier and more powerful. Thanks for sharing!

[@gustavost86]

Awesome video man!

[@tyeblee23]

I love the new logo!

[@Auldhelm]

Awesome video!!

[@DandelionLakewood]

Great info! I did not know this trick.

[@gooneybird808]

I knew you could do some cool looping but I had no idea about this...you’re awesome dude

[@ArthurLeeLand]

Just got hip to u thru DataLooper beta test group. This is a dope hack. I’ve been wanting to do this type of Beardyman “resampling’esque” move for years. Not exactly the same but this will be a welcome move for my DataLooper setup. Nice work!!!

[@anadoluozani]

Man you really prepare and encourage me for my future performances. Thank you so much.

[@MultiMam12345]

Worth to mention using this method for sound design only works if you actually record audio of what you are doing. For example record 8 bar clips using follow actions so you don’t need to stop to mouse drag your clips while jamming in a flow.

[@1ChrisFry]

Thank you for a great video. Learning a lot!

[@tyeblee23]

Alll this videos! Give me all the videos nom noM 🙏 can’t wait to see what this new course is about!

[@elijahlucian]

This is really cool man. I worry about leaving a looper in overdub while the mic is live, but this is a great tip!

[@kerdum]

These Vid's are so cool!!!

[@retreetmusic]

Soo good, thannks so much for that!

[@juliagabrielidepinho3916]

Thank you man for sharing this stuff

[@francescomilloni]

Wow, that’s basically the blooper in additive mode!

[@parisgraphics]

Excellent tutorial thank you!

[@rafaelbrenerrosa]

Hello! Tks for this advice!!! Very useful

[@duduodin7243]

Thank you bro. This is the secret sauce right here

[@duduodin7243]

And I honsetly cant wait to show all my beat making homies

[@humananimalmusic]

Whaaaaaat omg thank you. I’m giving you all my money

[@Further-South]

amazing feature thx for explaining.

[@modernmusicstudio303]

That was such a helpful video, thanks!

[@forrestroush]

EXCELLENT!

[@robertscott8336]

Nicely done, thank you! Is there any way to "undo" an overdub? Perhaps with multiple looper tacks?

[@claytonchipper3874]

Very cool

[@Andonchoto]

Awwesome!

[@djernanifusion]

Thank you very much!!!!!

[@kittycloudz813]

Nice 🔂 , with Loopy pro plugin coming to Mac soon ..it will make the loop vibes very interesting 🌀

[@messengerofsecrets3216]

Nice Anthony! I’m absolutely loving this approach. Now you have inserted changes on your loop plus your send fx. Is your loop course available yet?

[@m007mm]

Cool! But these changes don't get recorded in time? Meaning that I can't replay everything changing, as I can while re-watching the video, right? So I could edit all the steps afterwards and create an awesome track, right? You end up with one changed loop in the end. Am I correct?

[@AlexandreSoma]

This is awesome!!+

[@piualto147]

thank you!

[@ibagigey3786]

really, thanks bro

[@blewsyboy]

Thanks for going into detail about the setup, beats freezing the vid and squinting at your screen!

[@tomfoolery4077]

So is this different than doing the effects to a clip directly, without using the "Looper" effect?

[@loopman6466]

Hi! I like your video and tutorial 🪐 but I want to ask you : wouldn't you get the same result by inserting a series of audio effects before/after the Looper? So using only an audio track? Let me know, thanks

[@bobbycarreras9475]

what midi device would you recommend if you did want to use a physical looper to specifically tweak all the effects instead of using your mouse

[@danielkandela]

Hey! Love Your tutorial! Have ableton 11 lite and i dont have looper plugin what can i do instead of it?

[@prohorkarpenko8623]

Thanks for the video! You said you're using an M1 air, I'm planning to buy one but one thing concerns me. I have tons of stuff (up to 10) to connect via the usual USB, but the hubs with external power supplies host only up to 3-4 USB devices, I mean the ones that connect to the air, having only a typeC port for such hubs. How would you solve this? I'm afraid if I plug my 10port hub with external power into one of those ports of that previously mentioned hub, I might get extra midi latency, decrease in external SSD reading speed and malfunctioning.

[@hansjckerkhoff]

Serieus question: Why do you use the Looper in this case anyway? You already have your tempo set, so all you have to record can be done in one or more clips. That's a lot easier to edit. I only use Looper for a first take when I don't want to play with a click. All the other takes go in clips. And why are the instrument and the FX-group in a separate tracks? Why not in the same as the Looper? Please explain. I'm curieus.

[@leoopokat8235]

Always waiting on new videos U should try Launchkey mk3 too.. It incredible

[@SeedtoStage]

Yeah the OG is a bit small and unwieldy it just fits really easily in the camera and has all the keys and buttons I need next to demonstrate stuff.

[@sebastien5266]

Hello, thanks for the input, I'm a noob learning about Live and looping, so I haven't found yet how to get the metronome on ( before to start recording a first track ) using the looper plug in ? I mean I have the pre count when I rec any other track midi or instrument, but When i put The looper plug in a track and push REC, I don't have the precount or even the looper to guide me, just seeing Looper is recording the signal. What's the trick ? thanks to you or anyone else !!

[@lofi_soul_jazz]

HI Anthony, I bought your 4 back of courses and am workign through the live-loop course. I'm wondering if I have 4 live looper audio tracks... None of it's getting recorded to the master. I get that I can send the audio to each individual audio tracks and recording.. which kinda seems to work, but is there any other way to do this? Thanks so much!

[@SeedtoStage]

Join us on the discord! We’d love to discuss all the looping possibilities.

[@tomfoolery4077]

Is there a way to "UNDO" a movement? Say you moved the Auto Filter too fast, can you UNDO and try again easily?

[@papapilar3]

This is super cool! But along with the cool audio effect changes, the audio keeps layering on itself and within 5 passes it's distorting like crazy. Going to keep trouble shooting

[@KevinVerde]

Is it overdubbing the same audio or only the effects? I'm confused how it isn't recording over and over on itself.

[@funtti]

very interesting 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@tomsgig-taxi5577]

Where is the looper feedback path to be found?!

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

We need that the big guys talk to ableton .....the only thing I found faulty....in version 8 or I do not care , notice it or wherever since version 10 got me thinking

[@aLoudSi1ence]

Your courses must be awesome but unfortunately I can't afford them.

[@wilkopiano]

The problem with ableton’s looper is it only does audio looping not midi looping and you have to decide a fixed loop length up front which if you are doing an entirely spontaneous live performance session from scratch it does not work. Having to buy a push 2 hardware and live suite just to have fixed length options as quick buttons is expensive. Ableton should modify looper to have quick bar length macro buttons.

[@Zwebbbel]

What if you put a looper in the looper insert? 🤯

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

Record your high hats from a mido clip you will find the loop start delayed always...record 4 bars and take the loop to a audio clip and observe the beginning es delayed a lot.....so yo never get to loop on time no matter how you route your audio signal to the looper b3cause the chanel where is the looper monitoring in "in" .....we need it in a off monitoring setup up right???? Well looper do get audio Input that way

[@iliketoloopitloopit]

@2:42 : "Let's say I screw up my loop beyond recognition, I can just add more stuff to it"

[@gregess4093]

Does anyone else have an issue with clicks and pops that get written to the loop when pressing overdub/play? It only seems to happen for me when I do looper insert. It's like 99% perfect but unusable for me with the clicks :-/

[@MultiMam12345]

I am from the past bringing you the future. You really have to check out Endlesss, which does exactly this since it’s inception two years ago. Retrospective looping and fx with single tap commit. iOS, desktop, as plugin and host. Add realtime jamming with a great community. Stem export. If this tutorial blows your mind. Go check it out and experience true flow state jamming

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

I don't get this video

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

😅

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

Ableton looper don't pass the metronome looping test ....the thing is unusable

[@aeopmusic]

modern DAWs = outlet for male OCD and technological inferiority complex (don't forget your triple monitor, and Ableton Push*). Electronic musicians were making equally innovative bangers with software from 20 years ago.

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

Filter the loop dude your chanel is far advance come on

[@tyeblee23]

I love the new logo!