Hi Guys,
Thought i'd share this with you here as i know a few of you are on Ableton, the project below has taken me a while to get my head round and to be honest has stopped me getting into Bento's smart mixer so thats next on my list....
Anyway, with testing the Beta of Live 8 my reaktor ensemble started crashing my sets so i started to look at how i could recreate the effects within CLists Beatlookup with the native effects of Ableton. I use a Korg PAdKontrol that's switched into native mode and configured by an application for the Mac called Farmpad however this isn't essential to getting the setup working.
Within Beatlookup i'd modified things so that whilst the buffer constantly records audio i could press a single button and grab just two bars of it, then with the 16 pads of my Padkontrol i could play from any 16th of the sample i'd recorded giving me some wicked glitchy type stuff when playing fidget style house, the triggering from the pads was also quantized so that the audio sounded clean and in addition if i left the pad held down it would play up a beats worth of audio......
So to get this working in Ableton is a little complex but after test driving it this weekend IMHO the results are worth it!
Right then..... First you'll need bomes or equivalent keystroke convertor, then a midi patchbay type affair, and finally an IAC bus (someone fill me in on what PC users will need to have to replace this for Windows)
Done this step by step so sorry if it's a little basic...
1. Create four Audio Tracks like so... Route the signal in from whatever you want your source material to be.....
2. Map a Key to the Arm and Speaker on Buttons...
3. Midi Map across the Tracks corresponding to the pads on your controller....
4 Add a Midi Track and place an Exterbnal Instrument Plug into it setting the output to an IAC bus.....
5 Using Midi Patchbay merge the IAC BUs with the standard output of your Midi Controller (in my case my padKontrol is already routed into Farmpad as i use it in native mode with a heavily modified config file)
6 Record two clips that are two bars long (this is as long as i've done so far but it's easy enough to make it as long or short as you want....
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