How to use the Ableton Looper for COMPLETE beginners in 2023

If you find Ableton Looper confusing or difficult to set up, this video will help you, by stealing principles from the popular loop pedal - the RC1 by Boss.

In this video I shared:

✅ How to set up Ableton Looper to mimic the Boss RC1
✅ How to use MIDI controllers to make it handsfree
✅ A bonus tip on loop pedal timing
...and so much more!

Enjoy this week's video!

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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Ableton is complex
00:58 - What do I need?
01:32 - Dive into Ableton
03:04 - Live example
04:03 - Bonus tip

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[igotbit]

Thx so much I will try this today and since I’m so daring, I’ll be putting my keyboard on the floor!!!

[EdsMusic]

Thanks for this tutorial! Definitely trying this method out!

[Missedapex]

By far the most straightforward tutorial explained in a clear, precise, and understandable manner. Appreciate your humor: thank you!

[steveforwarduk]

loveing this videos Oliver, great job!

[llll-lkmm]

this is fucking brilliant, thank you, i really couldn't afford that boss pedal and this is amazing.

[andybrowne]

Great video! Really helpful and easy to follow. Do you have any problems with latency and how do you get around it?

[frank]

Is there any method of having say a 1 bar beat start, before the looper starts recording. How do we set that up. Thank you😊

[johnlong]

Hi set this up with morningstar its very eratic like sometimes recording straight off other times an intro that is really fast and sometimes without the bars for reference?

[josephdi-lenardo]

is there a metronome in the actual looper itself ?
awesome video is it mostly about timing then ? to get a good loop
cant you get a metronome count in for 1 bar then play your loop ?
plz let me know and thanks for the vid

[martinconverso]

Amazing.. Oliver, question, I ve got the boss rc 500 loop pedal and was trying to use it with Ableton.. would it be the same? txs for your videos..just great.. cheers!!

[piterisparkeris]

Don't you have to press the rec button on the guitar channel ?

[michaelsauve]

Great video! For the feedback section, you have it set to “Never”. What happens if you select “Always” instead? I am using the Ableton looper, and my feedback is set to Always. When I play and record a track and lay down 3 or 4 vocal loops, the overdubbed loops come through in my speaker. However, when I play back the recording, I only hear each of the vocal loops individually and they are not overdubbed. How can I fix this so that I hear the different overdubbed vocal loops played back in the recording?

[rajaram]

Great vid ! But i cant get the quantization to work, i want 1 bar count in but it jsut starts recording immediatley no matter what i set it to. Any tips ?

[siaseeds]

Can you explain why you need the two tracks? Why can't you just put a looper on your guitar track?

[dirkhorn]

Great video. Thanks. Is there a way to set up more lines to loop? So that you can see what the i dividual loops are doing? Then i wouldent ned any other looper. Like the boss rc505...

[piterisparkeris]

Could you show how to set up sustain pedal as looping triger? I'm thinking to get one since it's the cheapest option right now.

[racketmuseum]

I'm not sure if anyone has used a "Digitech Trio Band Creator" pedal but this has a feature where you can press over dub before the recording and it automatically doesn't engage until the first bar, takes off so much pressure. Is there a VST like this out there, or is there a max for live thing possible?

[Jay-odfh]

I tried using a 1937 Remington typewriter, but don't see a way to connect from my Macbook to it. Help?!?!

[mhediseltana]

Really like the 2bars before loop, great idea and thanks for adding.

[kisho]

how do you add live looper pluin into ableton version if its not installed yet?