Track Rig is an 8-channel audio output device designed for running tracks in live performance. Let’s take a look into all of its features and see how it can help you lead worship! 1. Track Rig is inexpensive With a traditional setup for running tracks, worship leaders use an interface Read more…
Looptimus is a MIDI foot controller designed to be used during live playback. Let’s take a look into all of its features and how it can help you lead worship! 1 . Control tracks with your feet The Looptimus is a foot controller. Its design is suited for musicians who Read more…
It’s one thing to know how to create a rock-solid Ableton Session, but when it comes time to move from your church office to the stage, connecting your computer to the sound system is a vital step. As with many other things in Ableton Live, there are multiple ways of Read more…
At Loop Community we know what it’s like as worship leaders to want to spend the best hours of our day creating and refining our craft, instead of messing around with confusing gear and software. It can be difficult, and expensive, to get your multitrack audio to your sound system. 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…
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…
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…
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…
In a previous post, we showed you the most basic setup possible to run loops in your worship set. This time, we wanted to get a little more fancy and layout what a multi-channel setup might look like. (Click the picture for a full size version)
Getting started with loops can seem complicated and confusing. People talk about interfaces, direct boxes, Ableton vs Reason vs Logic vs everything else and the complexity of some setups can be daunting.Rest assured, once you get started – you’ll want to do all those fancy things, but to get started Read more…
There are a lot of different ways you can trigger a loop. You can use a computer keyboard or a midi controller but sometimes you just don’t have your hands free to trigger your loops. If you are a guitar-playing worship leader, you definitely know what I’m talking about. My Read more…
Matt McCoy walks through his new loop rig modifications, including the new addition of a PreSonus AudioBox VSL 1818 and how he is interfacing Ableton and PreSonus software to create a headphone mix.
Lets face it. We all know the benfits of an in ear monitoring system and many a small church sings the same tune – “I wish we had the funds for an Aviom System.” Consider the following price tag for 16 channels of in ear monitoring: Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer Read more…
If you’re just getting started with loops, you need to know that an in-ear system make the process much easier and if you operate in the music space at all, you have probably heard of Aviom. What you may not know however, is what Avioms are, how they work, why Read more…
Matt McCoy walks us through triggering loops and scenes with the SoftStep foot controller and Ableton live.
The aBility Controller… best controller for Ableton Live. This pedal makes controlling loops with Ableton Live SIMPLE. FEATURES: 20 Banks 6 Patches per bank (A, B, C, D, E, F) 2 expression pedal controls 1 single midi-note function 2 channel Midi OMNI mode (a full bank that you can access Read more…