Any way to turn sustain on without a pedal?

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mayabong
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Any way to turn sustain on without a pedal?

Post by mayabong » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:25 am

Anyone know?

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Re: Any way to turn sustain on without a pedal?

Post by mholloway » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:40 am

Yes: you draw it into individual midi clips as a clip envelope; it occurs on a per-clip basis so you'll have to do it for every clip that you want it activated for. Go to the Clip Envelopes box, select "MIDI Ctrl" in the upper white box, then select "64 - Hold Pedal" in the lower box. Now increase the value of the envelope depicted to the right in the envelope field to 100% (just drag it all the way up). Now that clip will have activated the sustain/hold midi message.

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Re: Any way to turn sustain on without a pedal?

Post by mayabong » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:35 am

mholloway wrote:Yes: you draw it into individual midi clips as a clip envelope; it occurs on a per-clip basis so you'll have to do it for every clip that you want it activated for. Go to the Clip Envelopes box, select "MIDI Ctrl" in the upper white box, then select "64 - Hold Pedal" in the lower box. Now increase the value of the envelope depicted to the right in the envelope field to 100% (just drag it all the way up). Now that clip will have activated the sustain/hold midi message.

-M
Thanks man works like a charm. I'm gonna have to buy a pedal though eventually.

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Complication regarding have a sustain pedal with a midi controller

Post by liamjjg » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:19 pm

FYI to everyone you cannot use a sustain pedal with MPE turned on in the midi preferences! Turn off MPE and it will work! Hope this helps, cheers

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Re: Complication regarding have a sustain pedal with a midi controller

Post by [jur] » Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:33 am

liamjjg wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:19 pm
FYI to everyone you cannot use a sustain pedal with MPE turned on in the midi preferences! Turn off MPE and it will work! Hope this helps, cheers
Mmmh, this doesn't sound right. MPE doesn't prevent the sustain pedal from working; but PolyPressure and Slide aren't "sustained".
If you're seeing something different then something's not working as expected.
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Re: Complication regarding have a sustain pedal with a midi controller

Post by Mark Williams » Tue Jul 20, 2021 6:32 am

liamjjg wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:19 pm
FYI to everyone you cannot use a sustain pedal with MPE turned on in the midi preferences! Turn off MPE and it will work! Hope this helps, cheers
Incorrect. Sustain pedal plugged into my push2 & works fine with MPE on and using my Sensel Morph
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Re: Any way to turn sustain on without a pedal?

Post by ToBe » Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:51 pm

Just in case - here is a tutorial about some Max for Live options for handling Sustain in various ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZff7PAHlQU
(FREE) MAX for LIVE devices
http://blog.abletondrummer.com/free-max ... e-devices/

ABLETON LIVE for (but not only) DRUMMERS
http://www.abletondrummer.com

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