Operation Manual

The Looper
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Looping and MIDI Sync
The easy question is: “Will the VoiceLive 3 looper
stay in time with MIDI Tempo I send to it?”
The answer is a bit more complex – but essen-
tially “yes”.
If you have not yet recorded a loop and are feed-
ing MIDI Tempo to VoiceLive 3, the MET will be
set to the incoming tempo, and the loop will be
recorded at that tempo.
If you change tempo after recording your loop,
the loop will not time-stretch or otherwise trans-
form to stay on time. This is consistent with
VoiceLive 3s existing looper behavior. Tempo
gets “locked” after you record your first loop.
The exception to the above is at the end of a
loop. When the end of a loop comes around, it
will attempt to restart the loop on the next MIDI
Tempo beat. This allows for minor drift in the in-
coming MIDI Tempo value. Again, it’s not intend-
ed for changing tempo during the performance
with the looper running, but can adjust to slight
variations.
Additionally, the looper will respond to MIDI
Tempo values with precision higher than 1 beat
per minute. So if you send a tempo such as
118.4BPM from Ableton, VoiceLive 3 will follow
that tempo, although the display will show 118.
In practice, it’s pretty cool. You can…
► play audio and control the tempo from your
DAW,
► have your Guitar and Vocal Delay and Rhyth-
mic effects line up with the audio track
► record and play back loops in time with your
DAW audio tracks.
In short: VoiceLive 3 and a laptop are a really
powerful music presentation setup!