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. 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 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! Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
Pledge today and help us make Looptimus: USB MIDI Foot Controller for Loops and MultiTracks
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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
The big debate for using Loops and MultiTracks in worship – Session View or Arrangement View? I hear this question a lot – in the forums, at conferences, in training sessions, twitter, blogs, grandma’s house, blah blah blah. It’s actually Read more…
One of the greatest and most practical tools that I’ve found as a worship leader is the use of Loops and Click Tracks in worship. Some of you may be wondering what kind of “loops” I’m speaking of… and no, Read more…
Build a loop for your favorite Hymn and have a chance to win a SoftStep Foot Controller!
Sample Libraries – new from Loop Community. Individual Loops, Drum beats, percussion packs, electronic elements to fuel your creativity. Use in your own music creations, in the studio or on the stage! If you’re a producer, upload and sell your Read more…
tonight: rebuilding the @MattMcCoy loop rig from scratch. new setup. #fb
What’s your role with Loop Community? My role is in a couple different areas. I am mainly working with the Loop Community blog creating new Blog posts, video tutorials and trying to brain storm new ways we can better serve Read more…
Tell us about your church and where you lead worship I am the Youth Worship Pastor at White River Christian Church in Noblesville, Indiana. WRCC is an amazing body of believers who have an incredible desire and drive to be the Read more…
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.
Matt shows the first step in preparing to build a worship loop in Ableton…. add locators first.
Matt McCoy shows you how to use the Loop Community Band Cues to add Band Cues to your loops.
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 – Read more…
In the spring of 2011 I found myself in somewhat of a dry spell, a rut both musically and in my worship. My band had tons of songs we have played for quite some time and it seemed that we Read more…
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a full orchestra at your disposal? To show up at your gigs with dozens of talented musicians who know their parts and can produce a wonderful, full tone. Too bad you probably can’t do Read more…
in the studio this week with @jason_ingram @onesonicsociety making loops 4 their new record. amazing songs. @mattmccoy
we’re in the studio all week with One Sonic Society, making loops for their new record. #fb
@eddiehoagland band directing at #harvestu and his LOOP rig.
great time leading this weekend @AnastasiaChurch loved joining friends in the loop/Ableton community. @MattMcCoy
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 Read more…
I have a strange affection for iOS audio apps. I think it is largely related to the newness of the platform. Each new app seems to take the platform a step further down the digital audio frontier. Propellerhad’s Figure is Read more…