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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Matt McCoy shows us how you can trigger band cues during a worship set using Ableton Live and a SoftStep Foot controller.
Matt McCoy shows us how to run Loop Community loops using an iPod or iPhone.
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…
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…
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…
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…