Traktor style looping in ableton live 9

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Traktor style looping in ableton live 9

Hey guys

Does anyone know of a way to get the same looping system you get in traktor for example 16bar 8,4,2,1,1/2 etc
And map it to a midi controller, so far I can map the loop on/off but it will only loop one bar or what is set to the global quantisation of the session.

Any ideas would be amazing

Btw I’m using 2 launchpads and 2 xone k2’s and want to use a rotary encoder to select the loop length

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you could map the loop start… the beetter option is to create multiple clips of different lengths. If you don’t mind dropping into the song at a different spot, just use the beat repeater effect

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I don’t think that you could do that to only one channel while the other plays normally… Sayfor mixing two tracks for example… It would be interesting if someone could give us a hint.

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That’s good i appreciate your information.

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And that right there is why I don’t fuck with ableton as anything other then a daw

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Theres 3 ways I loop in Ableton

  1. Regular Loop in utilizing the same button as the quantize to change the duration (keyboard > midi translator needed e.g. midi stroke)
  • this is global based on the selected playing track.
  1. My Channels 5 to 8 are set to record to their corresponding channels set as ins from 1 to 4 to sample live based on the quantize which I can preselect beforehand using the 5 scene launch buttons on my APC.
  • this is per channel and means I can re-trigger loops later in a set, kinda like recording to remix decks.
  1. Copy the clip multiple times with different loop positions assigned.
  • Pain in the arse really and just use this method for pre-planned stuff and cue points.
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I use ClyphX for that.

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I mapped the loop length in a clip to a rotary pot, i haven’t fine tuned it to /2 or x2 but it definitely approaches what traktor does.

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I use ClyphX and it achieves a similar thing (you’ll need to download it and install it - very simple and small)

If you use Scenes or if Select on Launch/Select Scene on Launch is a big part of your set-up then this may not work for you..

One of the problems of trying to replicate that Traktor functionality is that Ableton is much more complex depending on how you have it set up and so to do a similar thing you need to tell Ableton explicitly every step you want it to go thru:

Behold! - ClyphX!

1/CLIP LOOP ON ; 1/SEL ; SHOWCLIP ; 1/CLIP LOOP 4

This is ClyphX code - you literally name a clip with this code you can get Ableton to do all kinds of cool stuff.

- means that this is Code NOT A NAME and so tells Ableton to expect ClyphX code..

1/CLIP LOOP ON - says turn clip looping on for the clip that’s playing in Track 1 (you can target any track Left to Right..)

; - semi-colons just split-up different commands.

1/SEL - means select the clip that’s playing in Track 1

SHOWCLIP - means show the audio waveform view of that clip

1/CLIP LOOP 4 - make the size of the loop 4 bars.

    • Be aware - A ClyphX Clip behaves just like any other clip, so it’s quantize settings will determine when it will fire.

** - A ClyphX Clip behaves just like any other clip, do you need it to loop or be a one-shot?

*** - In Preferences you may well need to check/uncheck Select on Launch if you do/don’t want focus to move to the ClyphX Clip.

  • Search ClyphX for more info - it has it’s own forum which is very useful and regularly maintained.