Comments on: Secrets Of Ableton Live’s Beat Repeat

By: Torley

Torley — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:54:53 +0000

With most effects that are HARD to do manually, eventually some clever opportunists (meant in the best of ways) will figure ways to approach or replicate the same sound in a few clicks. We also see the same thing with Photoshop plugins.

Beat repeat is cool but sometimes too “random” in that I want to freeze a selected portion of the Live track where it’s applied after a certain runthrough I found particularly pleasing, but I need to freeze the whole track, and even then, it’s not guaranteed to render the rendition I wanted. I’d like to learn how to do this, if at all possible.

By: philoop

philoop — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:17:44 +0000

use livecut free vst plug more fun….or dbglitch….also free

By: Georg

Georg — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:58:16 +0000

I’ve got a love/hate thing with Beat Repeat, too.

It makes loops sound much more alive, but it also has its own sort of sound that can get old.

By: wi_ngo

wi_ngo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:42:49 +0000

SO many people I know that use Live totally use the beat repeat as a ’secret’ weapon (though it’s been around for a while and isn’t so ’secrect’ any more). It’s a great go-to for instant glitch-type effects to really spice things up if your beats are limp and it’s awesome for stuff like vocals too.

But I think it is a sound, like the whole buffer-overrun or whatever that is, has kind of been overused and will start to sound dated soon (if not already) if people continue to use it in the standard way…

It still rules, though.