Have you ever used Ableton Live's Looper plug-in? In this tutorial Gary Hiebner shares his Looper workflows for creating unique beats for live and studio purposes.  
  • Set the Song Control to None.
  • Set the Tempo Control to Follow song tempo. (In a live context you may want to choose None, as tempo can drift in a live situation).
Looper settings.
Overdub button.
Drag Me feature.
MIDI Map.
Slice To New MIDI Track.
Reverse, Speed.

Gary Hiebner is an enthusiastic South African Sound Designer and Apple Tech Head! Gary has been involved in the South African music industry for the decade, and in this time has also been involved in the sound design and music production for many advertising agencies and media houses. Gary is a devoted Logic and Ableton user, but he al... Read More

Discussion

PamSmith
Hi,
Thanks for the article. One problem I've come across when using Looper is the loops you drag out don't retain the change in speed. I don't seem to find a way to be able to get it to do this? Any suggestions?
nis nis
"Add the loop plugin" I stopped the tuto here...

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