Live Looping with Ableton Part 1: Clips

Learn to create the Live Looping setup of your dreams with Ableton Live! For the next weeks, I will be releasing multiple videos on live looping techniques. There are so many ways to loop with Ableton and not one of them is the "right" way. It's all in what will fit into your workflow. So stay tuned!

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[JohJoh]

AFAIK best video on clip-based (audio AND midi) looping ! And this approach also really works for getting ideas into ableton quickly - wish I had seen this 10 years ago ...

[jephbennett]

5 years later and this is STILL one of the few (maybe only?) videos that explain clip performance setup in a simple manner. Thank you!

[baycosinus]

I swear the god I watched 3 full ableton live looping tutorial and I was thinking I'm too dumb for this shit until I saw yours. Explained what exactly I needed to know in 9 minutes and the others couldn't in 2+ hours of courses.


Thanks!

[wmsg]

I'm just getting into Ableton live lite 9. about 3 months now & being 64 its a learning curve, woo. But you hv turned on a whole lota light. for me. thank you.:))

[scionfire]

You're awesome! Finally, tutorial from someone who knows what they're doing AND how to explain it well. Thanks for keeping it simple and sharing the knowledge!

[jessanymorais]

Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap

[ariannaharrold]

Don't watch this drunk, you wind up just chilling out to this dudes awesome track and forget while you're watching lol

[xsfinest]

Dude you're only one who broke this concept down in a way that I could actually understand hopefully recreate :) plus that lil jam sesh had me dancing around my place at 2 am prolly waking up the neighbors haha

[christiangehteuchnichtsan]

I have searched so long and watched so many tutorials on live looping in Ableton, but only this video is what I was really looking for!

[tronlady]

This is it. This is what I've been looking for...for I dare not say how long! Looping with multiple song sections and not just the same progression over and over. A\B'ing seems rare on hardware pedals but this is A to H oh Lordy!!!!

[strangersun]

Yes! I watched this video shortly after it was posted, but I didn't own Ableton yet. Just bought it over the holiday and searched and searched and searched for this video, but couldn't find it. YouTube randomly served it up to me after another video finished playing. Thank you, non-search algorithm! And thanks to you, Seed to Stage. This is one is going in my "favorites". Subscribed.

[theoversouls]

Whenever I am learning Ableton features and search for tutorials - always happy when your videos come up!

[StanLei]

BEST live looping tutorial I've seen!! 👏 👏 👏 🙏 🙏 🙏 thankyou boss!

[VD]

i’ve lost count on how many times i have seen this video of yours.
Very succinct..clear.. Hell, even the music piece u used is cool.
thanks for this.
i’m still struggling..with the timing to stop recording/looping, and also the bar quantization...but thank you, for this.
this is a great way to get ideas recorded down..in multiple clips.

i’m waiting on the next shipment of the DataLooper pedal to come out..So far it’s been the most comprehensive and useful pedal i’ve seen, for Ableton.
The KMIs are great but i can’t choose between the 12step and the softstep..
cheers from Portugal

[bertslashdeuce]

This is what I've been looking for since the longest! I wanted to get into Ableton to do this and now that I've made the switch, I finally found it! I always wondered how I could loop like FKJ but with a keyboard instead of an APC. Thank you so much! Love, bro.

[allndoorz]

that guitar riff for the second part and the break down out did it for me...great track mannnn

[Turtlpwr]

I have been looking for this exact tutorial for such a long time. I’ve always had such a hard time trying to live loop with clips and I think you finally showed me the solution. Thank you so much for this video

[ALiBix]

Been making music for years, but have never used Abelton until today. Hands down the most efficient tutorial I've ever come across for any aspect of producing. First day ever touching Abelton and I'm already laying down tracks!

[arthurreckelberg]

thats the best ableton live video on the internet, GOD DAMN you're awsome, thank you very much

[FeralPyg]

Fantastic video. I’ve gone through it minute by minute to get it to work for me and my gear. An interesting option I’ve found is to select the option ‘record on new scene launch’ in the preferences. What this does is automatically start recording if you launch a new scene. So I midi mapped a foot controller button to ‘launch scene’. When I select (not launch) a new scene, when I press my ‘launch scene button’, an empty clip will start recording for the armed track. What this means is I only need to map 1 button to record rather than a button for every track launch - less tap dancing and more buttons left for engaging effects etc!!
Early days yet so I’ll see how it works out.