Can you use keyboard to shift a riff (transpose)

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:42 am

I had a search of the forum and have bashed the manual but i am drawing a blank.

Say i have a clip with a simple midi riff (1/4 bar ) what i would like to do is be able to trigger the riff from the keyboard transposing it as i play differing keys.

Is there a way to do this in Ableton ?

chapelier fou · Post by **chapelier fou** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:12 pm

Midi map to a range of keys.

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:13 pm

Thanks mate will give that a go. Didn't realise it could be that simple

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:55 pm

Just gave this a try but i'm not able to map a range of keys.

i click the Midi map function top right of screen and select the clip i want to meddle with then i hit C3-C4 on my keyboard only for bugger all to happen.

What am i missing?

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:09 pm

Sorry Figured it out now !

chapelier fou · Post by **chapelier fou** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:26 pm

no probs

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:14 pm

Hmmm, i can get it to transpose up but cant seem to get it to transpose down. I'd like to be able to trigger the riff to transpose over 2 octaves. IE an octave either side of the original playing point. The problem i'm getting is the midi map function seems a little temperamental. In that it only seems to accept ranges of keys outside of the original riff zone. I tried placing the keyboard ona different midi channel but that doesn't seem to solve the problem

Confuzzled

lloydforth · Post by **lloydforth** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:20 pm

Talk about writing it down makes you think ! The zones on my keyboard were set badly. Sorry folks move along nothing to see here

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