 Hi there, this is David Hildren with TC Helicon and this video is all things looping with this guy voice live 3 and voice live 3 extreme So this video is for you if You use voice live 3 or voice live 3 extreme right now And you're using it for looping or would like to use it for looping and you want to learn more about how to use it There's a lot of things in this looper And there's a lot of little tricks that you can that if you learn them You're going to be able to get more out of it And you're probably going to find out ways to really optimize the looper for the songs that you're performing Also, if you are a person that is thinking about getting a TC Helicon voice live 3 Or voice live 3 extreme I guess you'd have to get that one because because they don't make the voice live 3 anymore Then you want to see this because you're going to learn about how the looper works I must say I don't think it's going to be that short because there's a lot of stuff in this looper And I want to cover everything and I'm going to try to cover all the little tricks because there's a lot of little Little finicky little things that you if you if you knew how to do these things You're going to be a lot more efficient and faster in doing things with your looper. So The first thing I'm going to talk about is just the basic way that voice live 3 works. So there's a This is the voice layer because it's blue here. That's a guitar layer because it's red and Now the foot switch has changed the function. So this is all voice stuff and this is all Guitar stuff and if I hold this button Boom I go to the loop page So the loop layer here The basic way that this works is if I push this record button There so now it's recording and now once it's recording I can select after when I'm recording the first loop I can select don't want to push set and play the loop So it'll set the loop of the the length of the loop and start playing it or don't want to set it and start Overdubbing immediately or do I want to set it and stop the loop so I can do that and I don't have to if that's always there You always get the options to do that So if I push record B there so now it's recording So I just stop so Now I can I can set and play B set an overdub B or I can set and stop B There so now it's recording there. I'm gonna just stop everything. I'm gonna erase this So that's one of the first cool things about it so on the there are Four different sync modes in voice left three smart mode, which I think is the coolest is The one that allows you to make loops Really fast because what you do is you create if I record if I create a loop in a Loop B will be multiple lengths of a so I can make quickly make a rhythm Track in a and then B can be multiple lengths of that. So I'll show you how that works Don't don't don't Yeah, I mean I'm not actually trying to be like brilliant musically here. I just want to show you how it works. So one of the things people kind of complain about when they see people that are looping is they say, oh man it takes so long for them to create the loops. By having this feature in this thing you can make loops really quick because a lot of times what it is is somebody's you know playing a shaker over the entire verse of a song or you know that kind of stuff. This way you can create the the rhythm really quick. And also here's another thing. So that is, okay so that's the smart, smart sync. I want to go through all the different syncs. Utility, sync. If I go to free, free is kind of fun. Free doesn't, the loops just they're kind of random. They just kind of go where they want to go. I'm going to record something free. So now I'm recording something in free. I'm just kind of going in free, cool. And now I'm going to record Wow! That's that's actually really weird. I mean, very avon guard art project kind of thing. So that's what free is. Free I actually actually do use free for something I do use free I use free for I do this kind of ethereal sort of thing on my guitar so I'll try to do with my voice I don't know if I can do with my voice but you thought that was useful maybe you didn't but that's just kind of a shtick that you can use the free mode for gonna raise them all the next mode or sync yeah the next sync type is serial serial means that all the loops only play you can't have multiple loops playing at once so one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve nine ten eleven twelve nine ten eleven twelve nine ten eleven twelve one two three four one two three four five six seven eight so and something you might have noticed here as well is that right now I can play B but I can't play C the only way I can play C is if I play B and then push the swap button because you this this this button here it's utility when everything stopped it's not swapped but as soon as something's playing 9 10 11 12 5 6 7 8 5 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 there so in the last sync mode I think I'm gonna erase those loops first so I should have I could have actually shown you that so erase if I hit the utility button go to erase I can just press the erase button and I can select which loop I want to erase or I can erase erase all or I can just hold the erase button and erase is all yeah so now we're gonna get into the quantize mode utility sync quantize requires metronome okay great so we can talk about metronomes and quantize at the same time so if I hit so this is the top level menu of the looper this is where you start recording if I hit the utility button push the metronome button I can select the metronome sound there's a few different metronome sounds there or I can turn the metronome on there so now it's on so now in quantize mode I can actually record any loop I want but it'll be quantize with the metronome oh yeah oh yeah I have to so quantize it to the loop and if I so that was in time with it so I'm gonna keep going on this because there's a parameter there that I didn't know was on. see they were all quantized that's cool so that is the quantized mode loops can be any length that you want but they're gonna be quantized so I'm gonna erase the loops again here hold the button raises so now this metronome button I can push the metronome button and then I can turn the metronome on to get the metronome started turn it off there or if I just hold the metronome button it will come on so those are the ways you can start the metronome now one of the tricky things with this is that if okay so there's a parameter here I want to show you metronome follows playback so what are how did I get there I pushed the looper button and I went under the loop slot tab here metronome falls playback if that is off and I go metronome here I can have metronome mute now notice how that didn't work loop is not set very well it doesn't look very good and that's because that's because metronome is muted if it was off it would ignore it wouldn't be trying to quantize to the metronome but because it's muted it's quantizing to the metronome even though you can't hear it so you have to make sure if you don't want to metronome make sure under the metronome page you have the metronome off that's what you want so I am actually going to erase the loop grace all utility and I'm going to save it with metronome off mind you it's quantized mode I actually like my favorite mode is smart so I want to save it smart mode there now I said see so this is that's how you save a loop slot you have to go to the utility page on the loop the utility menu in the loop page and you have to hit save so there's no change that's cool so I think I've done everything oh there's one other thing that I have to do from from the foot switches the input so you can select that you want a guitar the guitar input for looping voice and guitar all these different things or the auxiliary input which is cool so you can have a keyboard going to the auxiliary input you'd have like drum machines or something like that people use lots of different things so the reason that this is great one of the things that's great about voice live 3 is that we have four outputs so the two XLR outputs you can have one output to be voice processed voice and process guitar or you can have the two two outputs for both voice and guitar so you can have voice on the stereo voice in the XLRs stereo outs on the quarter inch for the guitar and then when you loop the voice just the looped voice just goes on the voice output and the loop guitar just goes in guitar put so when you're recording a loop you're actually recording four tracks two voice tracks and two guitar tracks so that's the input so let's just say input voice and guitar great back I'm gonna actually just save it so that's done now if I go to the looper I push this looper button loop slot so everything that's in this loop slot thing I if I change something here I have to go back to here and have to save it okay because if I hit store store here that's just gonna save a preset so I want metronome falls please I want to turn that back on but anyway let's get back to this so says what the current slot is mix to mix looper to natural play what that does is if you record if you've got your guitar chords from your guitar in the looper those chords playing back when the loops playing back it'll use those chords to make the cordal information to make your harmonies work right because you actually need to know musical stuff to make the the harmonies work Auto met on I'll show you what that is and it's kind of Auto met on here if I go here I don't have to hold the metronome to get the metronome start I just touch it it goes on now I would actually recommend that you don't have that set to Auto met on because if you want to change the loop sound or something like that as soon as you touch that button as soon as you touch that button you're gonna hear the if you want to change the metronome sound I mean as soon as you touch that button you're gonna hear the metronome even though you just want to change the sound so if you have it off then when you all you have to do is go you can just tap the metronome you can change the sound to do whatever you want to change here but you can hold it to make it come on and I think that's I think that's pretty good so like I said I would actually recommend that you keep that off I have actually found that it's gotten to me in trouble before Auto met mute so I need to tell you about this because I actually like we kind of kind of hit me when I was working when I was showing you how to do looping in quantized mode because that was already on so what that does is when you so I have to go if I turn the met on now when I record a loop and I said it when I record a loop that goes away that's so if you just want a metronome to get your loops to get a tight loop to start off with metronome Auto met mute then you can have you turn that on and it'll automatically mute the metronome after your first loop so what some people do is you can turn you can have the metronome only come out the headphone I'll put on voice live three so that way you can hear the metronome when you're laying down the loop but the audience doesn't hear it but that way you get really tight loops so I usually leave that off because I if I don't have a metronome I actually like to create loops without hearing a metronome so I usually have that set off so Auto met on is off that's off I'm actually going to go here and I'm going to erase the loop and I'm going to save the loop slot like this because this is the way I like it so next thing Auto OWDK if I set this to a lower say set it to like 50 58% this is this lets you do what the original loopers did the loop original looping artists they would use tape and it would always be decaying I think you might get the idea it wasn't very good but I think you get the idea so I turn that back up but yeah it's a very great you can do some really creative things with that next thing overdub queue overdub if you have that on then when you hit the if you have a loop down and you listen to it it's playing you hit overdub it won't start overdubbing until the loop the loop boundary so it's it's almost like you're setting queuing up looping queuing up overdubbing until it gets to the loop boundary so that's what that's for metronome follows playback I kind of showed you that but I'm going to show you that again so here we go let's I think I'm going to do something do let's erase that loop so here let's do oh I'm recording a loop now oh I'm record so when I stop it the metronome stops oh um there so um oh oh oh oh so couple of things you need to know that if you went into this product and went to the midi page in the setup and turn midi temple on for some reason because let's just say maybe maybe you were using it with a midi rig and you wanted to have midi sync with your looper and it's great that's awesome makes your all your temples in your presets are in sync with everything that's great but if you don't want to use midi temple you got to make sure you turn this off because if it's on even if you don't have midi even hooked up to it watch what happens okay so I'm going to try to start my loop oh um record oh um what oh um you know it's not it's not starting a time oh and that's because that parameters on you need to make sure it's off it would actually sound great if you were with midi and you're hearing these drums and stuff like that you'd actually hit the start at the right time and the kick drum would come in right in fact if you hit it off you wouldn't want the kick drum to come on because it wouldn't be in time so turn midi temple off cool so now um so that's great so that works here we go erase it fine where was I met falls playback over dub q over dub audio q okay what that is is going to have this on I go here if I push record it'll just on the recording it won't start recording until it gets a signal don't okay come on let's dance yeah hey let's go okay come on let's dance yeah hey let's go yeah and if I have it set to first loop then it will start recording the first loop with it I hit always then it will actually wait for audio to record any loop I want to try that out here here we go let's try the song don't okay come on let's dance yeah hey let's go yeah so that's cool and thing you have to remember is that this all this stuff gets stored in the loop slot so if I turn this off or on or whatever and I go but I if I go store store it won't save it I have to go here and I have to go actually I want to erase these loops I don't want any of those loops recorded also I like saving it with metronome off and then I got to save it there we go so now I've saved the loop slot with the parameters that I like so those are all the parameters I like now the next thing is under the looper button is the preset so there's this load looper slot looper load slot so what that means is that when you go to the preset it will load this loop slot so if I turn this off then that means it won't so whatever loop slot the product was had the current loop slot it would just stay that when I change to that preset so a few things about this so if I so this I it was saved it had 32 so if I go here let's just go so this one see this one has a different loop slot this loop slot this has loop slot 19 yeah so that has loop slot 19 I go to this one it has loop slot 32 if I look at this see loop slots 32 there's no Audi there but it's loop slot 32 anyway that's that's just what that does there's a few weird things with this so if you if you have a loop slot if you want to load a loop slot but you want that loop slot to be empty you want to have want to load a loop slot but you want that loop slot to be empty and you need that loop slot to be a certain tempo so here if I go metronome so I want it to be tempo 101 it actually gets tricky but what you need to do to put metronome on mute here if you want to do that if you want to save a loop slot if you want to have a loop load a loop slot with a preset and you want it a certain tempo then you need to you need to do all these things so I set the tempo that I like now I need to just recorded audio it's weird even though I don't want that audio I need to save it with that audio and then I need to push store store to save the preset so now the preset is got the the tempo the loop slot has the tempo with audio and I need to go to another preset that loads a loop slot like this one or I think I think I could actually change loop slots in the product then I go back to the preset here here we are again audio is there now I erase the audio and save the loop slot again I'm sorry I'm really sorry but this is what you have to do to be for sure that it gets the tempo when you go to that preset so here we go so let's go home what was the tempo what was the tempo do you remember what it was 101 yes it was 101 so that's what you have to do um yeah and that's pretty much the video except loading loop slots so here we're gonna we're gonna do this we're gonna go metronome off back back there's no audio there it's all great I'm gonna store it save it metronome is turned off there's no audio in it we're gonna go here we are going to go to loop import and we're gonna import some loops here so let's import I import this one this one this one this one so I guess I should tell you I have a thumb drive plugged into this thing and I'd already stored these loop slots I actually created loops in the product and I stored them so I can do that and and then and I use the loop export function to get them there but you can also create loops in a DAW and you just stick them on your thumb drive um I guess I can show you the the directory structure but the best thing to do is you first export a loop and there will be a directory in your thumb drive I think it says vl3 loops or something like that you stick the loops in there and then they will show up here see I created some loops for a classic Brian Adams song summer of 69 and they're there and I don't want to import those because they're really long it takes too long to import so if I hold this button now no I don't want to do it I don't want to I want to cancel because I want to import these into 32 because that's the that is the loop we're dealing with here there everything is going in 32 here we go okay looping is finished awesome so here see here loop trigger a current slot is track a and loop trigger to be is is current slot track a and b so I can in here I can set this to I can make it I can just make it be or I can make it and see I'll make it just be okay cool and if I go store store then in that preset this is what the loop triggers do so great now if I go here so what happens is I can go under the vocal tab because on the vocal page here the vocal tab there or the vocal editing vocal I can do the bet map so I can select these foot switches to do something they don't just have to do this micromod delay reverb thing you can assign them to do whatever you want those are just the default when you buy the product so I'm going to set this to loop loop trigger a store store great now if I hit this yeah and I do this and be cool so I know what that is now one of the things that we need to do with that to make it sound right I need to go metronome on its metronome mute oh I need to go oh I'll bet you I didn't say metronome false playback is to be on I forgot to do that so I'm gonna go so let's try this again yeah no that now we're talking that sounds like something there we go so that's it I think I've told you everything that I know about looping on this product and some of the weird things and some of the goofy things but all good things so this is David Hilderman signing off I hope that you learned a lot of stuff about looping with your voice live 3 voice live 3 extreme and if you have any questions or comments you know stick them stick them in the comments section and I'll I'll try to answer everything that I can and if you have any other ideas for videos if there's anything that you need to really deep dive into in your voice live 3 voice live 3 extreme or any other TC Helicon product stick them in the comments and I will I'll try to get back and I'll try to make I'll try to make videos that that deal with those things so have an awesome day take care bye