Auto-Set Your Loop Brace | LoopScope for Ableton Live

What LoopScope Does

LoopScope watches your clip selection in real time using Max’s live.observer module, the same detection architecture that powers professional Max for Live devices worldwide.

The moment you select a clip on the device’s track, the loop brace snaps to that clip’s start and end points, looping activates automatically, and playback triggers from the clip’s beginning if Autoplay is enabled. The dual-ring visual display shows your position simultaneously at two levels: the outer ring tracks overall loop progress, the inner ring shows bar-level position, and the centre display counts down remaining bars.

Because LoopScope only responds to clips on its own track, you can run multiple instances across a project without conflicts, one per section track for dedicated control, or a global arrangement track with dummy clips for full-session navigation.

All LiveAPI writes route through deferlow for stable operation during live performance, and a JavaScript v8 validation engine ensures accurate clip data reading regardless of your project’s structure.

LoopScope — Use Cases

• Navigating between arrangement sections during a writing session without touching the loop brace — select the drop clip, the loop brace follows; select the break clip, it follows again, instantly
• Live performance use where you’re triggering clips and need real-time visual confirmation of where you are in the bar without losing focus on your performance
• Building a dedicated arrangement track with dummy clips labelled by section (Intro / Build / Drop / Break / Outro) and using LoopScope on that track as a session navigation controller
• Rehearsing or A/B testing specific sections by clicking clips in sequence, with the loop brace repositioning automatically between each listen
• Running multiple instances simultaneously — one on the drum section track, one on the melodic section track, for independent section-level loop control across a complex project