I ran a recent poll here on ORS that asked where your team was at with looping. 25% of you said you’d like to start using loops but don’t know how to get started. This post is intended to address that and hopefully get you some detailed information on how to get going. First here are some articles to help you decide whether you should even consider using loops:
- Why should I consider using loops in my worship service?
- Won’t using loops cause a congregation to get bored?
- Do loops leave any room for spontaneity in worship?
If you’re wanting to get started looping here are some articles helping you with that process:
- 8 steps to configure Ableton with loop and vocal cue tracks
- Configuring Ableton Live to run your click tracks – The link above showed you a more comprehensive loop setup that runs your loops and click. But if you wanted to just use Ableton for running your clicks, this is a great tutorial for that, as well as just general Ableton Live info.
- How to send click tracks to monitors and not mains
- How to transpose a loop in Reason
- How to create your own click track in Garage Band
Some sites where you can download loops:
- www.OurRisingSound.com – here of course
- www.themonobox.com – Matt hasn’t been posting for a long time, but he does have some good loops and tutorials still available.
- www.sacredloops.org – Again, not much content here, but hey there aren’t many people doing this kind of thing.
- Bwacks Forums – good place to ask questions on loops
If you have questions that none of these articles and tutorials address please don’t hesitate to ask. If you have any suggestions for loop links above let me know and I’ll add to the list.
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Hi,
Thanks for this great tutorial and general encouragement on using new tech in Worship. As someone who has been doing music tech for a looonnnnggg time, employed by a company doing drum loops and drum software, and a Worship team player I think this is needed to get over the phobia that some have about music tech.
When I have used tech in the past it has generally forced the arrangement vs. the free-form arrangements possible with Live. I agree that Live is THE cool product for this currently. One big missing bit is the way to control it in the usual Worship content I am in. To play back the loops you need a note-on which is tuff for the usual guitar-player to create while using both hands on a guitar :^). I have heard of some folks using the Roland organ-pedal controllers to do this so I am currently looking in this direction.
The other thing that is a problem sometimes is the bundles synths with all the different products. For example, Pro Tools and Logic probably have the best bundled synths for the usual “organic/old school” keyboard sounds used alot in CCM and Live currently doesn’t give you as much there for your $. So just a heads-up that you should probably invest in some more of their instrument sound sets and/or 3rd party plug-ins.
Thanks again for the article!
–kT
I start posting loop previews at http://www.youtube.com/modernworshiploops. I'm going to be offering some for free as well as a bunch for purchase in the near future. Hope I can be another resource for anybody wanting to integrate loops into their worship sets!
Great to see you posting this stuff. A few years ago some friend and I created a experimental worship project called Village Thrift (Worship Circle Records) incorporating loops, electronica, and hip hop methodologies (ie. Beck) to pull people who are culturally segregated together to worship God as one family. I'm looking to release the next in the series but it's highly collaborative and I'd like to pull from different communities who dig this vision and experimental worship style (ie. Davey Crowder) Shoot me an email at toddberg@gmail.com if you'd at all be interested. And I just moved to Phoenix, so if you're in the area, let's go out for coffee sometime.