Hey loop community I wanted to spend a little time thinking about how we prepare to lead our people each week. I know we spend a lot of time as musicians prepping the content, arrangements/song sequences, loops, multi-tracks, etc. So we tend to spend a lot of time prepping the Read more…
Contributed by E.J. Gauna There’s little question that these are amazing times we’re living in. Technology is advancing at an exponential rate and brings great progress with it. The way we buy music (when was the last time you paid $19.99 for a CD at a Sam Goody at the Read more…
Several weeks ago, our pastor said he wants our church to be a singing church. Considering the plethora of articles and blogs written about getting the congregation to sing, the sentiment is a common one: How do we engage the congregation and lead them to worship together as a family Read more…
by Eric Barfield As worship leaders, we’re constantly transcribing, modifying and adapting chord charts for specific musicians and singers each week. It’s a lot of hard work, and often requires a small forest’s worth of paper for printing out all new charts every time there’s a modification. What if there Read more…
We are pleased to announce that the Worship Initiative Volume 5 MultiTracks are Now Available. We also have vol 1- 4 available. Check them out here: http://loopcommunity.com/shane-and-shane/cornerstone
Hillsong Worship “No Other Name” is this year’s highly anticipated annual Hillsong Worship album release, with 11 original songs perfect for individual and congregational worship. Featuring the songwriting, worship leadership, musicianship and vocals of those now well-known as the Hillsong Worship team, including Reuben Morgan, Ben Fielding, Matt Crocker, Joel Read more…
Join us for a night of worship with Vertical Church Band, Jon Guerra and The Royal Royal. There will be a pre-concert event called The Worship Workshop. Read details below and consider attending! Doors for the show open at 6:30 p.m. That night we will be taking a Love Offering to help pay for the event. Read more…
PRIME is a FREE playback app for multitracks and loops in worship live performance.
Introducing the Complete Mainstage Worship Bundle With over 160 custom Mainstage keyboard presets for worship, including 80 exactly-like-the-original presets, this is the ultimate patch bundle to take keyboards in worship leading to a new level. For almost 40% off the original price. This pack includes: Mainstage Worship Pack, Volume 1 Read more…
We’re excited to announce that we’ve released the original master multi-tracks for Martin Smith’s “God’s Great Dance Floor”. These are really creative albums filled with amazing songs. Martin is a legend in Christian music. You might know him from the band, Delirious. He has written many songs that have Read more…
Our friends at Elevation Worship released a new worship album this week. It’s currently #1 on the iTunes charts. This album is full of amazing congregational worship songs. You can now download the master MultiTrack stems from the album at LoopCommunity.com Click Here To View Elevation Tracks at LoopCommunity.com Read more…
We’ve released the master original MultiTracks for Bethel Music, “For the Sake of the World” and “Tides”. Download the multi tracks here!
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We just released the master multitrack stems for BJ Putnam “More and More”. You’ll love the tracks on this album. Energetic, creative and passionate songs for worship. Be sure to check out the album on iTunes and download the multitrack stems here
How to Sync Multitracks from LoopCommunity.com to Ableton Live’s Click.
This week only! Get the Looptimus USB MIDI Foot Controller for only $229, plus FREE SHIPPING.
Learn how you can effectively use Split Loop tracks in Ableton Live using the Utility audio effect.
Learn how you can use the 12Step Controller by Keith McMillen to play pads in Ableton Live for worship
Learn how you can still be spontaneous with Band Cues in Ableton Live.
This fall, I had the privilege of meeting the guys from The Church Collective – this is an amazing resource for churches and worship leaders. I’ve had a chance to get to know Ryan Loche and asked him a few questions: Matt McCoy: Tell us about yourself. Where do you work? Read more…
We’re excited to announce that we’ve released the master multitracks for Casey Darnell. Casey writes powerful music for the church and his songs can be heard in churches all over the world. He’s a worship leader at North Point in Atlanta. Today, his latest album releases. Check it out Read more…
We’re excited to announce that we just released the Master Multitrack stems from “The Water & The Blood” by Dustin Kensrue. This album is refreshing to listen to because it’s not the normal “cookie-cutter” worship song. The songs are creative and fresh, and the music is inspiring. Read more…
You’re a busy worship leader at a growing church with a bunch of volunteer musicians every weekend. Everyone’s been practicing hard on the songs all week, but when you get onstage, something just doesn’t sound right. It’s the keyboardist again. She’s playing the right notes, but she just isn’t able Read more…
LC’s Kristian Ponsford shows us how you can use the Ableton Advanced Template to help get all the power you can out of Ableton Live! The advanced Ableton template is the great way to organise your loops, multi tracks, sounds and cue tracks into one master template. The use of Read more…
Loop Community was selected as one of the top worship resources of 2013 by Worship Leader Magazine. Thank you for your ongoing support. We could not do what we do without you. We’re glad you’re a part of the community! WE ARE LC.
We’re excited to announce the release of “Let There Be Light” by our good friends at North Point. Looking for great Christmas arrangements for this year? Look no more… this album is filled with creative Christmas songs and arrangements for your Christmas services this year! And to make it Read more…
We’re excited to announce the release of “The Rock Won’t Move” by Vertical Church Band. This album is filled with amazing songs for your church worship service. Be sure to download the album now on iTunes… you won’t regret it. By far the best worship release of 2013. Recorded live Read more…
We’re excited to announce that we launched all of the multitrack track stems from Phil Wickham‘s latest album, “Ascension” on LoopCommunity.com. If you haven’t heard this record yet, you need to pick it up on iTunes immediately. It has creative loop programming all over it. It’s driven heavily by killer Read more…
I often hear from people who say they are running Multitracks in Ableton Live, but can’t seem to get them to be in-sync with the Ableton metronome no matter what they do. This is a frustrating problem. It occurs whether they have “Warping” turned on or not, so this is Read more…
Hey friends, As of 5:35 AM Central Time October 2nd, the Looptimus pedal was 100% funded!!! We cannot thank everyone enough for their generous support and encouragement throughout this campaign. We’re SO excited about what is to come. We’re happy to say that TODAY we pulled the trigger with our Read more…
Hey everyone! We just wanted to let you know that we have added a new feature to the Looptimus Pedal… Now Looptimus will come with a standard 5 PIN MIDI OUT jack, as well as a USB jack. This will allow you to connect Looptimus to any other hardware device Read more…
Hey everyone! Matt here… we’re excited about the Looptimus project! We have 21 Days to go, 72 backers and are about 32% there. I’ve had a lot of people tell me how pumped they are about it and there have been some good questions: QUESTION: What Happens if $50k isn’t raised Read more…
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Join us for LoopLIVE and learn to use Arrangement View from Ableton Certified Trainer, Scottie Dugan.
We just released the Original Master MultiTracks from North Point Music’s albums: “Here And Now” and “No One Higher” Download them here: http://loopcommunity.com/mastertracks
Arrangement View Load all of your MultiTracks into Arrangement View and add Locators for each section. Locators are little flag “markers” that let you identify different sections of the song on the timeline. Next, using the Ableton Live MIDI feature, you can easily assign buttons on any MIDI device (like Read more…
Very cool loop rig, by one of our Ableton Trainers, Kristian Ponsford.
Today we released the original Master MultiTracks from Harvest Bible Chapel’s, Vertical Church Band – “Live Worship from Vertical Church”. This is an amazing album, filled with vertical worship songs for the church. We’re proud to partner with VCB in this release and future releases. Keep an eye out Read more…
In the wake of our other recent announcements, we’re excited to introduce LoopElite club. Save money on Loops and MultiTracks for worship with a monthly or annual subscription. We’re only getting started… much more on the way! -Matt
Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce that we have released the first version of the Loop Community iPad App. Use the app to access all of your previous and future LC MultiTrack purchases! Features a 12 channel audio mixer Auto-pans Click/Cues Left and Track audio Right Create and Save Read more…
Hey community! I’m in Cincinnati with my good friend and very talented worship leader / songwriter, Zak Stegman. Zak is leading worship this week for the Summer of Service conference at the Vineyard church in Cincinnati (where I used to work). He is running his loops this week in Surround Read more…
Many of our contributors at Loop Community have been with us from the very beggining. We cannot thank you enough for all your efforts in building this community. One of these contributors who has been with us practically from the beginning is EJ Gauna. EJ creates some great resources for Read more…
People often tell me that they don’t have in-ear monitors at their church. If you’re wanting to use loops and are trying to figure out how to get the click to the drummer, check out this simple diagram for sending a Click and Monitor send to your drummer. Hope this Read more…
Loop Community is proud to be a part of the THINK worship conference, June 17 – 19, 2013 in Louisville, KY. Matt McCoy will be teaching workshops on using Loops, Multitracks and Clicktracks in live worship. If you are in the area, we would love to see you Read more…
Kyle Disterheft, trainer at Loop Community, shows you how to use the Max for Live device, Follow, in Ableton live to automate song flow and transitions. This device allows you to use follow actions with scenes. Max for Live is only available with Ableton Live 9 Suite. To learn about ‘Follow’ Read more…
FREE for the month of May, download the MasterTracks from “King of Love” by Lovelite. Check out the sample and enjoy this great new worship song! Includes a FREE MP3 and Chord Chart! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE Also, be sure to check out the entire album on iTunes!
So while I was attending the Seeds conference in Tulsa Ok I had the privilege to meet Loop Community Contributer Gary Sexton. He is a great guy and he has some killer loops here on loop community. I used Gary’s God’s Great Dance Floor Loop at Easter and it was fantastic! Read more…
Join Loop Community at the National Worship Leader Conference in Kansas City and California! Matt McCoy will be teaching Ableton Certified workshops, live demos and performing his music live. Hope to see you there! Get 10% off your registration when you use the promo code: LOOP10 Kansas City http://nationalworshipleaderconference.com/ks/ California Read more…
Check out the Podcast Interview: Play in new window | Download http://christianmusicblog.com/session6/ In the 6th session of the CMB Podcast, I speak with worship leader and songwriter, Matt McCoy. Matt has released 4 albums, and is currently working on his 5th. His latest release “Shine” is available at iTunes here. For more info on Read more…
2013 has already blessed us with some great worship music and today I just wanted to share a couple New Releases that you should be listening to. Hillsong-Zion Mars Hill-Citizens Loop Community’s very Own- Matt McCoy Passion-Let The Future Begin About the Author: Jake Stemo is a Read more…
Wanted to give everyone a quick update that we’ve added scrubbers to most of the players on the site. This should make it easier for you to preview loops and mastertracks! More to come soon…
The world of creating music has changed so much through the years. As worship leaders, sometimes it’s hard to stay current with everything in the music creation world. So when I heard the term “DAW” for the first time, I thought I was hearing some audio engineers talking in code Read more…
If you are new at using loops in worship or maybe you have been using them for a while, you have probably noticed that there can be awkward moments between songs. Like when you hit the stop button and it kills all sounds everywhere and its just dead silent. Or Read more…
As worship leaders we all want control. Control is the thing that keeps the band tight, the thing that keeps everyone on task. We strive for it and some of us are even chasing after it. When you have control how do you get to a point when you can Read more…
Well the holidays are upon us and as you are all busy planning your big christmas/christmas eve experiences we want to find out what loops you will be using for the holidays. Alot of worship pastors are still looking for some great ideas and great loops to use in their Read more…
Sophmore64 – Making Music on a Gameboy using LSDJ. http://www.sophmore64.com How long have you been creating music? We have been creating music since 2011. We were in a band prior to starting Sophmore 64, we were both guitar players. In August of 2011 Jake had to have spinal fusion surgery Read more…
Apple Mainstage is another performance software that you can use to run loops. Used alongside Apple Logic or Garageband, Mainstage allows you to import loops to play them back with markers. Mainstage allows you to create custom buttons, knobs, and displays so that you can show and control exactly what you Read more…
Matt McCoy shows you how to convert Audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 9. This is a new feature in Live 9. Convert Harmony to MIDI and Convert Melody to MIDI. Check out the video below.
Tell us about your church and where you lead worship Although I do not sing, I play keys around the 5 North Point campuses and multiple partner churches in Atlanta area. North Point doesn’t use the typical music pastor/worship team model. They pull from a pool of contracted musicians Read more…
I want to explore what a good transition is. I want to learn about what is working for other worship leaders and how you transition your band. You might be able to get through a song and everything went great but if the transition bombs it throws the whole Read more…
What’s your role with Loop Community? I process Ableton Live loop submissions to get them in the correct format. I also create videos explaining some of the ways to use Apple Mainstage in corporate worship and I’ve got a couple blog posts coming up! Tell us about Read more…
Tell us about your church and where you lead worship. I have the privilege and honor to join in leading worship on Liberty Campus Band for Liberty University. We lead four times a week for the entire student body (12,000 students). Liberty is the largest evangelical Christian school in the Read more…
Tutorial with Matt McCoy on how to install the FREE Loop Community Vocal Cues into Ableton Live. Be sure to download the latest version from your Loop Community Account! Updated 9/25/2012
Tells us a little about yourself(Family, Background, Favorite Color)? My name is Chris Etling (aka Mister Beardo). God has blessed me with a beautifully awesome wife and two wonderful kids! I have been playing music since I was in 5th grade when I started playing trombone in the band. My Read more…
Hey everyone, I’ve had a few people in the past week ask me a question about Ableton and external hard-drives to run Loops and MultiTracks. Some people are in the understanding that in order to run Loops + MultiTracks in Ableton you have to have an external hard drive. I’m Read more…
As I’ve been using Loops, MultiTracks and Ableton over the past ten years, it’s been amazing to see more and more churches adapt the use of music technology in their worship services. You don’t typically see just a Boss TU-2 Tuner on the ground in front of the worship leader Read more…
Tell us about your church and where you lead worship? I currently serve at a church called Peachtree City United Methodist Church in Peachtree, GA (1000 per Sunday – give or take the “Methodist math”). They’ve had some bad experiences with contemporary worship leaders in the past but I feel Read more…
We received a ton of amazing submissions for the HYMN REMIX contest, and the final results are in! FIRST PLACE – SoftStep Foot Controller, Shirt, Sticker, LC ThumbDrive How Deep the Fathers Love For Us Devan Bumstead SECOND PLACE – Shirt, Sticker Come Thou Fount Jeff Caylor THIRD PLACE Read more…
What’s your role with Loop Community? I do a couple of different things at LC. I do different graphic artwork for the site and advertising. I also publish a lot of the Facebook and Twitter content and I also do interviews with different team members and contributors for blog posts. Read more…
Hey everyone! We are at the National Worship Leader Conference in Kansas City this week! If you’re in the area, come say hi! We’d love to hang with you and meet you in person. We will also be teaching 4 workshops this year. Hope you can join us. Tuesday 11 Read more…
fired the same loop two times in a row- had to stop an start over. Anyone else have a blooper this morning? @mattmccoy
Sound check is one of the most critical steps in delivering an excellent weekend service. It ensures that all the complicated patching, routing, conversion, and reproduction are happening the way you want them to happen. When sound checks go bad (coming soon to your local Fox station!), it can put off the mood Read more…
Sound check is one of the most critical steps in delivering an excellent weekend service. It ensures that all the complicated patching, routing, conversion, and reproduction are happening the way you want them to happen. When sound checks go bad (coming soon to your local Fox station!), it can put off the mood Read more…
Matt McCoy is a worship leader and Ableton Certified Trainer with LoopCommunity.com
Learn how to build your own Loop arrangements in arrangement view in Ableton Live and how to trigger sections of songs in Session View.