How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

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razvano
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How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

Post by razvano » Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:27 pm

Hey there,

Is it possible to load some sort of midi device on a drum rack pad that will trigger several clips from the session view if I trigger the drumrack pad.
Something that outputs a midi-signal, that i then can reassign via the midi-map-mode?

I need this because I want to trigger several clips at once, that have a certain multichannel arrangement, not for making music, but for a theatre show...

Ideas anyone? Would be so great if somebody could help me...

TLW
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Re: How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

Post by TLW » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:38 pm

Can MIDI mapping the clips to the computer keyboard with all the clips mapped to trigger from the same key do the job?
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razvano
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Re: How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

Post by razvano » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:15 am

Unfortunately not... I‘m want to use Push, to control the show. Aim is to lauch different soundscapes via scenes, and then add different Sound-events, both Multichannel and normal one-shot-Samples via regular simpler-drumpads ...
Just would be so convenient having a 64drum-pad view on the push, and just a next-scene Button via the Enter-key.
(For live the other computer-keys a bit to unhandy)
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razvano
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Re: How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

Post by razvano » Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:07 am

Thanks for the tipp! I'll check it.

Meanwhile I figured out some workaround, using the Virtual Midi IAC-driver. I have a midi-through-tack in the session, receiving Midi from Push and sending it through to the IAC-Driver, which I than can map to any midi-mappable functions. => Now I have a 64-Pad Drumrack on the Push, with several normal 'simpler' and the Triggerbuttons for the multichannel-Events.

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Re: How to launch several clips in Session view with drum rack

Post by Greenapples2019 » Fri May 03, 2019 8:38 am

Hi, the Yamaha DTX-M12 can send up to four MIDI notes per pad, and you can have the notes sent simultaneously or sequentially. So you could assign four notes to a pad and map those to four clips, and trigger them all with one hit of the pad. The DTX-M12 has 12 pads, and if that isn't enough you can set up other User kits to give you up to 4800 pads, each triggering up to four notes. I hope that helps!

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