Recording in live loops cells in Logic using voice over

[Craig Spencer]

Hello everyone,
Is loop based recording in Logic using live loop cells accessible with voice over?

That is a work flow with recording a loop pattern and using scenes?

If so, are there any tutorials on this topic?
Thanks

[TheOreoMonster LogicBand]

If you just want to do loop based recordings, you don’t need to use Live Loops, that’s just complicating things. Live Loops is for if you want to do a performance and trigger different individual loops or a group of loops called a scene at the same time. It’s similar to how a lot of electronic musicians perform with Ableton in session view.
If you are just trying to say record a 4 or 8 bar phrase that you can then repeat through the project I’d say skip Live Loops. You can use the cycle range or punch locators to limit your recording area to just 4 or 8 bars, there are key commands to repeat the region as many times as you would like, plus key commands to double or half the length of a region. You can also use locators to copy, cut and or paste an entire section of a song at once.
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[Craig Spencer]

Thanks for your response.
You know I thought the same thing when live loops first came out. As the work flow you described was how I work and still work (minus punch locaters since I have never got that to work).

The reason I am now revisiting live loops is that the process of triggering scenes to test out the order of a song before committing it to the time line seems intriguing.
But I guess it comes down to is it worth the time as it relates to accessibility and work flow efficiency.

I suppose I could create my own scenes in the normal arrangement view in logic by creating markers at the beginning of each new section and test the order of the song that way. I guess I would then have to copy the markers where I want them and save that arrangement as a project alternative .
The question is would that be more efficient and fun than using live loops.
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> If you just want to do loop based recordings, you don’t need to use Live Loops, that’s just complicating things. Live Loops is for if you want to do a performance and trigger different individual loops or a group of loops called a scene at the same time. It’s similar to how a lot of electronic musicians perform with Ableton in session view.

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[TheOreoMonster LogicBand]

Personally to test out arrangements Ideas I use Locators to copy or cut sections of songs and put them in differen tplaces. Easier than dealing with markers and having to select all tracks etc. Only way this could be potentially easier is if arrangement markers became more accessible.

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[John Isige]

Can't you just load into a cell, or record into one? I need to play with this because I've gota Novation Launchpad X, and I wonder if that would make things any easier? This video seems to show a fair amount of keyboard usage though, although not for loading loops, so maybe we can't do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJu0opJb2c

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[TheOreoMonster]

You can record into a cell and or load pre recorded or imported regions into a cell. Haven’t messed with that too much though. As it just seems a slower way to work from a screen reader/touch perspective. I get the performance nature of it, but an 8 by 8 grid like the launch pad offers means 64 individual blocks to get comfortable and memorize your way around wit out vision when performing. Yeah a piano has more keys but they are laid out side by side and there is an easy pattern to those that make it easy to tell where you are so to speak. Please understand I a m not saying it can’t be done non visually, just not something I have invested time to see if I could get comfortable working that way.
I have done some one on one sessions teaching people the step sequencer and Live Loops. I do wonder how many people stuck with that workflow long term. I understand their appeal and it’s a great workflow but to me it seems a bit tedious from the non visual stand point and there are faster ways to achieve similar results without using those methods.

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[John Isige]

Sure. I picked up a Launchpad mostly because I wanted an isomorphic keyboard layout to experiment with, just to see how it will work nonvisually. So I figure since I have one, I may as well keep experimenting with what it can do. I can always determine it sucks and stop using it later, or that it works great for some things and not others, or what ahve you.

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