Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by aeon_flux » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:53 pm

what about mixer with bpm detection and midi, then setting live to get clock from that source? kaoss pad should work. problem is that bpm detection is not accurate on korg devices.

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by outershpongolia » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:29 am

Me and my buddy started jammin' with a metronome and once we got the hang of it, it opened up a bunch of new possibilities.. The fact that you can build the song up and give the illusion (earlusion? :mrgreen: ) of speeding up, yet you're really still at a steady tempo, is what makes it interesting a lot of the time..

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by transology » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:55 am

aeon_flux wrote:what about mixer with bpm detection and midi, then setting live to get clock from that source? kaoss pad should work. problem is that bpm detection is not accurate on korg devices.
Not enough accurate. Nice try !
outershpongolia wrote:Me and my buddy started jammin' with a metronome and once we got the hang of it, it opened up a bunch of new possibilities.. The fact that you can build the song up and give the illusion (earlusion? :mrgreen: ) of speeding up, yet you're really still at a steady tempo, is what makes it interesting a lot of the time..
I totally understand this but this is not the point. I want to trig UP or DOWN the tempo on the fly.

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by outershpongolia » Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:39 am

How often do the drums need to speed up or slow down?

I know it's a pain but your drummer could use a rotary (endless) knob to go +1 or -1 on the tempo.. Each click of the knob would be 1 value up or down.. but he'd have to do it with a knob so I guess that's less than ideal, but it's worth a shot if he can pull it off..

It does suck that there isn't tempo up/down just like scenes.. it'd work perfect.

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by bulo » Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:26 pm

My tongue spits english like a frog and my head is currently searching for a comprehensive language.
And I shit here

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by transology » Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:02 pm

I actually use Scene tempo changes and it works good !!
Using a knob for someone who got two sticks in his hand is just an impossible way to do it. And will probably be inaccurate as I will need to define value betweem (40bpm to 160 bpm).

But thanks for proposing :)

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outershpongolia wrote:How often do the drums need to speed up or slow down?

I know it's a pain but your drummer could use a rotary (endless) knob to go +1 or -1 on the tempo.. Each click of the knob would be 1 value up or down.. but he'd have to do it with a knob so I guess that's less than ideal, but it's worth a shot if he can pull it off..

It does suck that there isn't tempo up/down just like scenes.. it'd work perfect.
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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by transology » Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:35 pm

You made my Christmas Eve !! Can't wait to try this !!
Sound promising with the demo I've seen :)

http://www.b-keeper.org/

Video demo : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic ... index.html

from the PDF above :

This enables musicians to interact with electronic parts which are triggered
automatically by the computer from performance information. We describe an implementation which functions with the sequencer Ableton Live. (... more)
(I can't copy and paste what I want easily :(

bulo wrote:http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/markp ... 7-nime.pdf

B-Keeper
It's a Max patch.
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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by aeon_flux » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:47 pm

transology wrote:
aeon_flux wrote:what about mixer with bpm detection and midi, then setting live to get clock from that source? kaoss pad should work. problem is that bpm detection is not accurate on korg devices.
Not enough accurate. Nice try !
then what about such christmas present? http://www.ploytec.com/34one/

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by aeon_flux » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:56 pm

transology wrote:
aeon_flux wrote:what about mixer with bpm detection and midi, then setting live to get clock from that source? kaoss pad should work. problem is that bpm detection is not accurate on korg devices.
Not enough accurate. Nice try !
korg is just an example. there are for sure other devices with bpm detection that can serve midi clock. and maybe korg will be stable if you feed it with just kick drum of your live player...

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by yur2die4 » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:11 am

That B-Keeper looks flipping amazing. Where do you go from there? Artificial intelligence?? Scale detection? haha

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by infiniteloom » Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:10 am

Wouldn't a MIDI mapping to the TAP tempo button work?

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by malutki » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:10 pm

infiniteloom wrote:Wouldn't a MIDI mapping to the TAP tempo button work?
thanks, infiniteloom!
That's what I think when this question comes up,
but maybe we are to simple... ;)
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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by malutki » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:20 pm

8O
but BKeeper does look amazing, of course...
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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by nitevision » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:04 pm

malutki wrote:
infiniteloom wrote:Wouldn't a MIDI mapping to the TAP tempo button work?
thanks, infiniteloom!
That's what I think when this question comes up,
but maybe we are to simple... ;)
This only works if your kick drum is constantly 4/4 as off beat hits will alter the tempo.

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Re: Keeping Ableton intime with live band.

Post by transology » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:58 pm

nitevision wrote:
malutki wrote:
infiniteloom wrote:Wouldn't a MIDI mapping to the TAP tempo button work?
thanks, infiniteloom!
That's what I think when this question comes up,
but maybe we are to simple... ;)
This only works if your kick drum is constantly 4/4 as off beat hits will alter the tempo.
An not even thinking about kick-drum breaks, silence, groove changing lol. And this would be way too responsive.
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