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Live looping with more than one performer

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Live looping with more than one performer

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- What if we had a couple of controllers for this same set, but one of them lifts somewhere else on stage? That would be exciting because it means that two performers could loop together and stay in sync all without click. Let's see how we can make this happen. The first thing is that each performer will need a way to start and stop recording, which means access to the session record button. Right now, we have a pedal assigned to it through the first controller. If another performer were to be in charge of the second controller, they would need access to the session record button as well. Here we can take advantage of the fact that Live's MIDI mappings don't distinguish between MIDI ports. All we have to do is make sure that both controllers sent the same MIDI note on the same channel and session record will respond to both, no new mapping required. In this case, my pedal and this corner pad will do the trick, but obviously depending on your controllers you can have another pedal at…

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