So as some of you might know i have been working on a patch over the last couple days that i plan to publicly release. Ableton users will be well aware that the EQ3 in ableton isnt 0db gain at the center position, which causes some issues when mapping it to your midi controller. Also theres no easy way to make a filter that is off at the center position and when moving the knob either way acts as rather a high or low pass filter(ala Traktor Pro Style). Ontop of this its impossible to edit volume fader curves inside of Ableton to your own custom curve.
So i have made a patch that includes all three of these things !
Note: The part of the image surrounded by red is all that you will see in the effects section of the Ableton. To edit the curves you will need to open the patch to see the area below the area in the red rectangle.
EQ -
The Eqs cut to a full kill, at the center position 0db gain, and at the fully on position +6db gain.
The EQ also contains kill switches so you can kill any of the three bands.
Also included in the EQ is the ability to set your own frequency crossover points - this is where your low range ends and your mids start and where your mids end and your highs start.
Filter -
The filter control is a highpass and lowpass filter in one while being neutral in the middle position.
Also included is a resonance button, something Traktor is sorely missing for those who want to tweak the resonance to their liking.
You can draw how sharp or subtle you want your filter sweeps to be, from a gentle linear to a sharp exponential curve - or anything in between ! Its just a simple matter of drawing your own frequency curves that the knob will react to in the bottom section of the patch (only visible when is in edit mode so it doesn't take up precious screen space while your gigging).
Volume fader -
The volume fader curve can be edited with your own curve by simply drawing the curve you would like with your mouse. You can use this to make your fader act like a scratch mixer.
In a future version i plan to add two things to this volume fader part of the patch.
1 The ability to reverse the fader to make it easier to do scratch tricks with.
2) The ability to do Moldover style gating effects, a great thing to hook up to your arcade buttons so when your holding the button down the track will let audio through and released will cause silence (this option will obviously wont be on all the time so you don't have to hold down a button for the entire clip if you just want to play a clip).
Presets -
Included are 3 presets, the preset will save your custom frequency and volume curves while also saving the position of the resonance knob. This way you can have multiple different presets for different situations. So for example you could have a preset for scratching and another preset for general mixing.
This patch is meant as a general mixing tool and will not have any effects inbuilt into it (im saving some advances superknob effects for another patch). If anyone has any general mixing tools going along the lines of what is already included into this patch they wish to have included into this patch then just speak up and ill think strongly about adding it to this patch.
I will probably also release this as three separate patches as well as an all in one for those people who want to just use a single element of the patch and not the entire thing. The patch is pretty CPU efficient too, so you can easily load it up on all your channels without any worries of hogging up precious CPU power.
Edit: I am looking for beta testers so PM me if you have M4L and your interested in trying out this patch
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