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Triggering Loops

Ableton Live

Surround Sound Worship Loops

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…

By Loop Community, 12 years ago
Ableton Live

Keith McMillen Soft Step vs 12 Step

By Loop Community, 12 years ago
Ableton Live

Loop Transitions

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…

By Loop Community, 12 years ago
Ableton Live

Giving Up Control

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…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsJanuary 16, 2013 ago
Ableton Live

Band Transitions

  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…

By Loop Community, 13 yearsOctober 16, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Worship Loopers… I mean Leaders.

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…

By Loop Community, 13 yearsAugust 14, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Loop Products from LoopCommunity.com

By Loop Community, 13 yearsJune 22, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Trigger Videos in ProPresenter with Ableton Live

A brilliant solution and tutorial on triggering videos in ProPresenter from Ableton Live using MIDI over WIFI. Thanks to Kristian Ponsford, at http://www.iam-kp.com Be sure to check out his loops on Loop Community.  

By Loop Community, 13 yearsMarch 31, 2012 ago
Hardware

Triggering Loops Without Your Hands

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…

By Loop Community, 13 years ago
Triggering Loops

Newsboys Loop Rig

We were with the Newsboys this week… check out their loop rig.

By Loop Community, 13 years ago
Ableton Live

Triggering Loops With a MIDI Controller

In my last post we talked about how you can trigger a loop in Ableton with just the keys on your keyboard and gave some examples of how you can navigate and setup you computer keyboard to control Ableton.  In this post I want to talk about MIDI controllers.  MIDI Read more…

By Loop Community, 13 yearsJanuary 23, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Ableton Tip: Trigger A Loop With Computer Keyboard

Recently I did some research on how many blog posts are out on the web explaining some of the simplest things about triggering loops in worship or a live music setting and there was not a lot of content out there. So hopefully this post will help you understand how Read more…

By Loop Community, 13 yearsJanuary 17, 2012 ago
Triggering Loops

Using Loop Community Loops in iTunes

Matt McCoy shows how to use loops that you download from Loop Community in iTunes, and the cables you need to have a basic set up for panning the click and loops.

By Loop Community, 13 yearsDecember 30, 2011 ago
Triggering Loops

Triggering Band Cues in Ableton

Matt McCoy shows us how you can trigger band cues during a worship set using Ableton Live and a SoftStep Foot controller.

By Loop Community, 13 yearsDecember 26, 2011 ago
Triggering Loops

Run Loops from your iPod / iPhone

Matt McCoy shows us how to run Loop Community loops using an iPod or iPhone.

By Loop Community, 13 yearsDecember 22, 2011 ago
Hardware

SoftStep Foot Controller

By Loop Community, 13 yearsDecember 14, 2011 ago
Leading Worship

How To Run Loops While Leading Worship

There are many ways that you can run loops in a worship setting but I want to take a moment and explain a few methods that I have used and the different ways you can use those methods.  This will hopefully give a better understanding on how you can use loops Read more…

By Loop Community, 14 yearsNovember 16, 2011 ago
Leading Worship

Who Should Trigger the Loops?

Pro’s / Con’s of the Worship Leader Triggering the Loop? Lets start with some pros to the worship leader triggering the loop.  Many people have asked me, “Why do you want to trigger the loops? Don’t you have enough going through your head?”. Well yeah, you’re right – but on Read more…

By Loop Community, 14 yearsNovember 10, 2011 ago
Leading Worship

How to Use Loops in Your Church

You think our loops are awesome? Excellent – we agree with you! But if you’re like most people, you have no idea how to use them in your worship set yet. Luckily, most churches fall into one of three categories based on how your worship environment is setup. Go ahead Read more…

By Loop Community, 14 yearsSeptember 3, 2011 ago
Hardware

iPad as Ableton Midi Controller

By Loop Community, 15 yearsJune 12, 2010 ago
Hardware

aBility Controller

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…

By Loop Community, 15 yearsMay 27, 2010 ago
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