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Tutorials

How to Automate Your Tracks in Logic Pro

Automation is the automatic changing of parameters to your tracks. In music production, it is a very important tool when it comes to getting the sound you want. Automation gives sounds the movement it needs to bring it to life and make them more compelling. Automation Mode To use automation Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsMay 13, 2020 ago
Tutorials

Bus Routing Techniques in Logic Pro

Bus routing is very important in music production. It allows you to group tracks, change signal flows and overall gives you more control over your session. In this blog, we’ll go over some techniques so that you can use them to create your tracks. The Importance of Bus Routing By Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsMay 7, 2020 ago
Tutorials

How to Use Apple Loops for Transitions in Logic Pro

The Apple Loops Library is a great addition to Logic that allows producers to easily drag and drop pre-made loops and One Shots into their sessions. These sounds are provided by Apple and are free with the software. Apple Loops Library To open the Apple Loops Library, click on the Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsApril 23, 2020 ago
Tutorials

Basic Mixing and Pre Fader Metering in Logic Pro

Basic mixing and the moving of faders is easy in Logic. If you’re a producer, mixing is important to make sure you acquire the right levels for your tracks. If tracks are too quiet, they can lack punch and not be consistent with other tracks. If tracks are too loud, Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsMarch 4, 2020 ago
Tutorials

How to Use Track Stacks and Sidechain Compression in Logic Pro

Track Stacks and sidechain compression are very useful tools for producing. Let’s look into each one so you can implement it in your music production and build on your existing sounds. Track Stacks If you’re new to using Track Stacks, we went into depth about the different types in a Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 years ago
Tutorials

Producing a Bass and Lead in Logic Pro

Bass and lead instruments are very important in a song. The bass provides a backbone for the song by filling out the low frequencies, as well as usually playing the root of a chord. Lead instruments usually contain the melody and are ear-catching to listeners. In this post, we’ll take Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 years ago
Tutorials

How to Use the Virtual Drummer in Logic Pro

Logic’s virtual drummer plugin is great for starting producers who want a solid drum sound. What the virtual drummer does is basically create a beat for you based on parameters you set. This provides an easy way to quickly get a drum track in your session. Virtual Drummer To open Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsFebruary 6, 2020 ago
Tutorials

How to Record and Edit Midi in Logic Pro

Recording is a big part of the production process. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to record MIDI in Logic Pro. Recording Settings Before recording, let’s look at some recording settings in Logic. To open recording settings, click and hold on the record button in the control Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsJanuary 17, 2020 ago
Tutorials

Working with Virtual Instruments, Compressors and EQ in Logic Pro

Now that we know how to set up our project in Logic, we can start working with channel strips and virtual instruments. EXS24 The EXS24 is a great virtual sampler in Logic that lets you play the instruments in Logic’s library. To use this tool, open up the new track Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 years ago
Tutorials

How to Set Up a Project in Logic Pro

Have you ever wanted to create your own tracks? Now that we have gone through the basic Logic Tutorial Series, we can dive deeper into Logic. Logic Pro is one of the best Digital Audio Workstations for producing music. In this series called the Logic Production Tutorial Series, we will Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsJanuary 3, 2020 ago
Tutorials

How to Build a Worship Set in Logic Pro

Although Logic Pro’s strong suit is music editing and production, it is very possible to use Logic to run your tracks for worship. You can think of it similarly to how one would run tracks in Ableton’s arrangement view. Importing Songs We believe the best way to set up your Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsDecember 12, 2019 ago
Tutorials

How to Export Your Tracks in Logic Pro

Exporting your tracks is the last step to get your tracks out and ready to be played back for worship! After exporting, you can then bring them into Prime, MainStage, Ableton, or any other DAW. Cycle Region When exporting tracks in Logic, the cycle region is the key. The cycle Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsDecember 6, 2019 ago
Tutorials

How to Use Markers and Edit Your Arrangement in Logic Pro

Markers in Logic Pro are labels to help organize your tracks. They are great for creating song sections for your tracks or even to give you small reminders. Markers To setup markers, you’ll need to first have the marker track displayed in Logic. This track is a global track, so Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsNovember 27, 2019 ago
Tutorials

How to use MIDI Out with Prime

MIDI Out is now available in Prime with your Loop Pro subscription! They give you the ability to trigger your lights, lyrics, effects and more. To showcase this new feature, we will be using ProPresenter with Prime. ProPresenter is a presentation software that is a great application for running lyrics Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsNovember 22, 2019 ago
Tutorials

How to Change the Key and Tempo of Your Tracks in Logic Pro

Are you interested in producing your own tracks? Logic Pro is Apple’s digital audio workstation and is an application that worship leaders can use to produce and run their tracks. Logic’s simplistic design makes it user-friendly and is great for beginner-level producers. This blog series on Logic Pro focuses on Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsNovember 14, 2019 ago
Tutorials

Adding Tracks and Using Smart Tempo in Logic Pro

Are you interested in producing your own tracks? Logic Pro is Apple’s digital audio workstation and is an application that worship leaders can use to produce and run their tracks. Logic’s simplistic design makes it user-friendly and is great for beginner-level producers. This blog series on Logic Pro focuses on Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 years ago
Tutorials

Introduction to Using Logic Pro in Worship

Are you interested in producing your own tracks? Logic Pro is Apple’s digital audio workstation and is an application that worship leaders can use to produce and run their tracks. Logic’s simplistic design makes it user-friendly and is great for beginner-level producers. We will be doing a blog series on Read more…

By Loop Community, 3 yearsNovember 4, 2019 ago
Ableton Live

Using Spontaneous Band Cues in Ableton Live

Learn how to use spontaneous band cues with a MIDI controller during your live sets!  1. Insert Audio Track Once you have a setlist created in Ableton Live, click Create in the toolbar at the top and then, Insert Audio Track. Drag the track to the left of all of Read more…

By Loop Community, 4 yearsNovember 8, 2018 ago
Prime

Automating Your Worship Set with Prime Transitions

Learn how to use transitions in the PRIME MultiTrack App to automate your setlist!  PRIME is the easiest way to run your MultiTracks in live performance. Once you have PRIME downloaded, and have added your songs to your setlist, you can add transitions to have your set automated and eliminate Read more…

By Loop Community, 4 yearsOctober 10, 2018 ago
Ableton Live

How To Sync ProPresenter & Ableton Live

Learn how to automate lyrics with ProPresenter and Ableton Live!  1. The Setup A. Two Mac Computers This explanation is for Mac users. You need two separate Macs. One will run Ableton Live and the other will run ProPresenter. Make sure you already have your tracks in Ableton Live setup Read more…

By Loop Community, 5 yearsJuly 18, 2018 ago
Ableton Live

Ableton Live 10: 6 New Features for Worship Leaders

Six awesome features in Ableton Live 10 that will help worship leaders! 1. Tracks adopt their file name When you drag tracks into Arrangement View, every track adopts the name of the track. Previously you would have had to change the name of all of your tracks, but now it Read more…

By Loop Community, 5 years ago
Ableton Live

Free Ableton Live Course for Worship Leaders

Enjoy this 15-Video Series with Ableton Certified Trainer, Matt McCoy!

By Matt McCoy, 7 yearsDecember 7, 2015 ago
Tutorials

How to Export Your Tracks in Logic Pro (Advanced)

The final step in the music production process is to export your tracks! You will want to export your tracks so that you can use them in Prime, MainStage, or any other DAW of your choice. In the Intro to Logic blog series, we also touched on exporting your tracks. Read more…

By Loop Community, 8 yearsMarch 31, 2015 ago
Ableton Live

Loop Community Ableton Advanced Template

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…

By Loop Community, 9 yearsOctober 31, 2013 ago
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, 10 years ago
Clicks + Vocal Cues

Simple In-Ear Monitor Setup for Drummer

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…

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

Keith McMillen Soft Step vs 12 Step

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

Transposing Multi-Tracks With Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

How To Use Multi-Tracks In Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

Arranging Loops On The Fly

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

How To Transpose The Key Of Your Loop In Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 yearsMarch 5, 2013 ago
Ableton Live

Customize Your Loop Arrangement In Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

Creating A Master Loop Library In Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

Building A Worship Set In Ableton 101

By Loop Community, 10 years ago
Ableton Live

How To Change The Tempo In Ableton Live

By Loop Community, 10 yearsMarch 5, 2013 ago
Ableton Live

Convert Audio to MIDI in Ableton Live 9

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.

By Loop Community, 10 yearsNovember 12, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Installing the LC Vocal Cues

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

By Loop Community, 11 years ago
Ableton Live

Ableton Livestream Training: Warping

By Loop Community, 11 years 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, 11 yearsAugust 14, 2012 ago
Tutorials

Loop and Ableton Training On A More Personal Level: Matt McCoy

By Loop Community, 11 yearsAugust 14, 2012 ago
Clicks + Vocal Cues

Mainstage Tutorial

By Loop Community, 11 yearsJuly 16, 2012 ago
Clicks + Vocal Cues

Improve Your Sound Check: For the Audio Team

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…

By Loop Community, 11 yearsJuly 6, 2012 ago
Site News

Matt McCoy: Ableton Certified Trainer

Matt McCoy is a worship leader and Ableton Certified Trainer with LoopCommunity.com

By Loop Community, 11 yearsJuly 1, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

.Wav File Product from LoopCommunity.com

By Loop Community, 11 years ago
Ableton Live

Loop Products from LoopCommunity.com

By Loop Community, 11 yearsJune 22, 2012 ago
Tutorials

Automate Worship Lyrics with Ableton

Matt McCoy demonstrates how you can automate your ProPresenter (or PowerPoint) worship lyrics with Ableton Live Loops and Click in a worship set using Bome’s Midi Translator Pro.  

By Loop Community, 11 years ago
Tutorials

Preparing to build a loop in ableton

Matt shows the first step in preparing to build a worship loop in Ableton…. add locators first.

By Loop Community, 11 years ago
Ableton Live

Adding Band Cues w/ the Loop Community Cue Pack

Matt McCoy shows you how to use the Loop Community Band Cues to add Band Cues to your loops.

By Loop Community, 11 years ago
LIVE STREAM Training Videos

LIVESTREAM #1: Intro to Ableton Live

  Matt McCoy and the Loop Community team give an introduction to Ableton Live and using Loops in worship. TOPIC COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: – Overview of the Ableton Interface – Importing Audio Files into the Session – Scenes – Editing Launch Tempo and Launch Time Signature – Intro to Read more…

By Loop Community, 11 yearsMay 18, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Looping 201: Multi-channel loop output with Ableton and a Presonus 1818VSL

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)

By Loop Community, 11 yearsApril 13, 2012 ago
Hardware

Looping 101 – How To Plug It All In

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…

By Loop Community, 11 yearsApril 3, 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, 11 yearsMarch 31, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Paul Mabury Sample Library Demo

Coming soon to LoopCommunity.com – Paul Mabury drum and loop libraries! This demo video uses drum loops in dubstep to show the diversity of worship loops in varying genres. ReMix, sample, edit, and mash-up drum loops used on hit records in your own loop track and music creations!

By Loop Community, 11 yearsMarch 29, 2012 ago
Clicks + Vocal Cues

For Drummers: Using Click Tracks and Metronome in Worship

Using a Metronome in Worship The drummer is the “bus driver” for the band. Setting the right tempo for a song is extremely vital for the entire band to follow.  This is the job of a drummer in any band. The drummer should set and play at a tempo that Read more…

By Loop Community, 11 yearsMarch 27, 2012 ago
Ableton Live

Audio routing settings in ableton live

This is an overview of output settings for using loops in worship, from LoopCommunity.com

By Loop Community, 11 yearsMarch 7, 2012 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, 11 yearsJanuary 23, 2012 ago
Software

Importing LC SoftStep Presets

Once you have downloaded the Loop Community SoftStep presets, you’re ready to import them into your own Preset folder. Watch the tutorial below for detailed instructions. Please comment with any questions! – Matt

By Loop Community, 11 years 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 yearsDecember 22, 2011 ago
Hardware

Triggering Loops w/ SoftStep Foot Controller

Matt McCoy walks us through triggering loops and scenes with the SoftStep foot controller and Ableton live.

By Loop Community, 11 yearsDecember 20, 2011 ago
Leading Worship

Why Small Churches Need Loops

There are countless blogs and websites out on the inter-web right now spreading the gospel of loops, their benefits and why you should use them now.  I’m in that club but many of these blogs and lessons are geared towards the larger church.  I’m a worship leader in a plant Read more…

By Loop Community, 11 yearsOctober 10, 2011 ago
Leading Worship

Why Use Technology in Worship?

Hi, all. A question that typically comes up when I tell people about all of the technology that we use in worship is, “Why use all of that? Do you really need to use technology to get the point across?” My answer to that goes along with some of my Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsSeptember 29, 2011 ago
Loop Programming

What ARE Loops?

Wow, where to begin? Let’s Start With Early Sequencers and Trackers. The first analog sequencers played rigid patterns of notes using a grid of (usually) 16 buttons, or steps, each step being 1/16 of a measure. These patterns of notes were then chained together to form longer compositions. Sequencers of Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsSeptember 20, 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, 12 yearsSeptember 3, 2011 ago
Tutorials

Mixing Loops in Your Worship Service

  In this post, we’re going to take a look at mixing loops in your worship service. This discussion is really aimed at the guy standing behind the sound console but the information is great for loop creators and users too.  A better understanding of the types of decisions your Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsJuly 11, 2011 ago
Tutorials

5 Reasons to Use Loops In Worship

I was talking with a good friend the other day about why we use loops in worship. It can sometimes be a bit more extra work to get loops set up and ready to go for the weekend service, so what is the main purpose for loops and tracks? Is Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsJuly 1, 2011 ago
Free Loops

Propellerhead Reason Tutorial #1 and Free Loop Share

screen-captureSoftware:

Reason 4

Virtual Instruments:

(2) SubTractor

(2) ReDrum

NN-XT Sampler

Malstrom synth

NN-19

Session Production Elements:

This session is affectionately named Melody First because I built the beat/rhythm section around the melody. I started with a bright piano patch using the NN-19 sampler and filled it out with an NN-XT synth patch. I enjoyed the (more…)

By Loop Community, 12 yearsJune 14, 2011 ago
Tutorials

Transitioning Your Band To A Click

Let’s face it. We all have tempo problems. Either we drink too much coffee in the morning or our heart beats are just a bit irregular. It can be hard, or nearly impossible, to stay on a perfect tempo for long on our own. That’s why there is the metronome Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsMay 25, 2011 ago
Tutorials

How To Use Loops In Worship pt. 1

So, you want to start using loops and tracks in your worship services – but have no idea where to begin? Over the next couple blogs, we’ll be discussing different ways to utilize loops in worship. 1. The iPod Method (cheap and easy… but not ideal) This is the most Read more…

By Loop Community, 12 yearsMay 23, 2011 ago
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