EDIT: okay, seems there was a mis-communication.
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Totally get and respect this but I send emails, put usernames and passwords on random wesbites, send text messages, and upload all kinds of other personal stuff into the internet on the daily not really knowing who, what or where it’s going so…
So…I’m not too worried about a field recording
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It appears I was either misunderstood or I miscommunicated.
I was attempting to respond to the people saying Life’s output sounds “samey”. That isn’t a problem for me, because I’m going to chop up the results anyway, and people have been reusing the same drum breaks for decades. It isn’t the “sameyness” of the material, it’s what we do with it that matters. 
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Interested to hear more … am considering Loopmix, and if it is genuinely better (as somebody said) then I can’t see exactly why 6 times the cost for “Life” is worth it ?
Yes, It does more than that- but that was the bit I thought was going to be ‘cool’ and maybe a bit ‘AI’ or have a new Euclidian Engine to slide around that maybe reacted to the samples loaded. There is control for density etc and that selects more of the sample slices to trigger. It also has the XO drum engine in it for tweaking the pre-set drum grooves but as I said, I have XO Drum so it is all too familiar with a limited number of steps (my number one gripe with XO!). If it was a $10 iPad App I would probably buy it!
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Got it! Now I understand where you’re coming from.
Thanks for further developing your critique 
ust saw a statement from XLN as a reply on YT (the ‘Introducing Life by XLN Audio’ video):
The main reason Life is using a Cloud service is to enable syncing recordings from the Life Field Recorder to the Life plugin in your DAW without any extra steps. Having access to the recordings and beats from our users also enables us to improve on the service by training our machine learning models on real user data. In Life there are currently two machine learning models which enable auto-denoising and smart pattern variations. We have no intention to use your data for any other purposes than to make the experience of using our products continuously better. We will not share or sell your samples.
perhaps reassuring for some worried people here?
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and then this (on instagram):
xlnaudio:
thanks for pointing this out, we are working on rewording this as we speak. We would never claim rights over anyone’s music or recordings, it was never our intent.
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XLN Life if pretty slick. It took some of my mumbles and hums and gave me a great drum track to build on top of. Super cool.
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Yo, this is really cool!
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XLN Life is inspiring. I’ve been creating rhythm tracks from random sounds, production stems, stock samples, etc. and it uses sonic alchemy to transform these waves into magic. It’s worth downloading for free to test drive it. The recorder app works well with the software. Here goes my weekend…
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can you opt-in to make your sounds available to other users?
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Interested to know more … pros and cons of those two ?
loopmix is more of a tool to ‘combine’ several more or less finished/mixed loops in to a new thing.
life creates a loop from 1 file of whatever you throw at it.
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I downloaded the Life demo yesterday and made about 60 loops out of random sounds from my hard drive. It’s really fun, clever and unique in how it achieves loops. The Density knob is super cool - try automating it with an LFO and recording the results, or assigning the Density to a MIDI controller to ride the energy of a track. The Syncopation knob is great for instantly shifting a track’s feel from techno to breakbeat, and also benefits from live twiddling/automation.
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I don’t think you can for now.
During the beta, it was not an option.
But what a cool idea.
If that’s cool with you, I’m gonna submit this in the Beta forum
how do you do that?
Mapping the controls in Ableton Live. 
ah using logic here. i can use an lfo tool to modulate the density parameter, just not so clear on how to record it
Ah, when I said recording I meant sampling. I was running Life through a bunch of plugins to remove harsh resonances, saturate, compress and limit to get some really full-sounding loops from relatively obscure material.
Nine days of the trial to go and I think it’s a keeper!
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