Tag Archives: Ableton

Custom Loops

Need a Custom Loop? I’ve been working with Reason and Abelton Live creating loops for worship songs both original and covers for a few years now. I’ve released most of them on this site and made them available for all to use for free. I’ve had a lot of inquiries about creating custom loops for people [...]

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Beat slicing tutorial from Trifonic (Video)

This is a cool tutorial on some techniques to slice up drum patterns in interesting ways. Great because it’s tool agnostic, meaning you can use the same technique in whatever application you are using, Abelton, Login, Reason, etc… Click through to his vimeo account to see more tutorials. Trifonic: Editing Beats – Part 1 from [...]

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What music gear would you buy with $1000 ?

Pretend I gave you $1,000 but you had to spend it on music gear. What would you get? I’d get the new Abelton Suite and have a few hundred left over to buy a decent condenser mic, like a Shure KSM27 or Rode NT-1. What’s next on your list of music goodies?

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A beginner’s guide to loops

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 [...]

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8 steps to configure Ableton with loop and vocal cue tracks

A vocal cue track is an audio track set to a click, and usually ran along side of a loop, that is sent to your in ear monitors only and serves as a helper track, guiding you inside your arrangement. The primary purpose is to keep the band in sync with the arrangement and is [...]

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Loop available: “Everlasting God” by New Life Worship

To my mind the best song to come out of New Life is Everlasting God. You won’t hear too many melodies better than this one, and the production is really top class. Glenn Packiam’s vocals on this always impressed me, his tone is fantastic on this. We do this song quite often at LCC and [...]

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Do loops leave any room for spontaneity in worship?

Here is our second installment of answers to questions on the post, “Why should I consider using loops in my worship service?” How easy/difficult do you find it to break out of the song/set when using loops? This was one of my main concerns when I started using loops. How was I going to be [...]

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Why should I consider using loops in my worship service?

I deal a lot with worship loops on this site as you may have noticed. More and more worship leaders are becoming interested in using loops but many still don’t see the point, think it’s too complicated or a waste of time, or don’t understand why anyone would use instruments that aren’t live. All of [...]

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