gjennings

I have an idea for a piece of live music which would involve a drummer playing passages that I would record into Ableton, and then immediately play back with processing, all the while staying on a strict grid. This would result in a back in forth between me on the computer and the drummer. My question is how difficult would this be to do using max for live? I need to figure out how I can record for a specific amount of time (say 4 bars) and then immediately play back from another track, and when that clip is finished immediately start recording again. Any tips on how to go about doing this? I know how to record and play back, but I don't know how to do so for a set amount of time. Thank you !

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Couldn't you just use Live's built in Clip Recording functionality? From your description, it sounds like Live can already do this.

If not, what are the reasons you can't do that?

Couldn't you just use Live's built in Clip Recording functionality? From your description, it sounds like Live can already do this.
If not, what are the reasons you can't do that?


What Evan said, it sounds like if you have a midi controller and creatively setup tracks within ableton (working with I/O routings, group tracks, return tracks, etc) then at what seems to be the bottom line to your idea it can be done in ableton.

However if you need more control, depending on what you're doing it can easily be done using m4l (via the LOM, that's the Live Object Model) to tell ableton to record and stop within very specific settings and to proceed in specific ways depending on what current user input is and/or what state ableton is in (e.g. which clip slot is active or not active or recording or not recording). The hard part is if you're just starting out (which sounds like you might be) then there's a steep learning curve.

What Evan said, it sounds like if you have a midi controller and creatively setup tracks within ableton (working with I/O routings, group tracks, return tracks, etc) then at what seems to be the bottom line to your idea it can be done in ableton. 

However if you need more control, depending on what you're doing it can easily be done using m4l (via the LOM, that's the Live Object Model) to tell ableton to record and stop within very specific settings and to proceed in specific ways depending on what current user input is and/or what state ableton is in (e.g. which clip slot is active or not active or recording or not recording). The hard part is if you're just starting out (which sounds like you might be) then there's a steep learning curve.


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