set transpose value

[guyd]

Does anybody know if you can set an exact transposition function for a clip or track? What I want to be able to do is drop an audio clip one octave just by pushing one button.

[markmakingmusic]

Hmm, that would be cool but not sure how to do it.

Just record 2 clips (one in original octave and the other one an octave lower) and map each one to a different key.

[essegibi]

either create more clips which are pretransposed like markmakingmusic says, use mapping with maximum and minimum values or use clyphx or even m4l(which i have no clue how to use though).

the first might be good if you are performing prerecorded stuff, but if you are playing live and livesampling the other approaches might be better.

by mapping smart you can set min value to -12 and max value to +12 or 0 for example, then your max and min points will be easy to turn a knob or a fader to, but fiths and fourths and stuff will be worse, remember to chose select on launch cause your mapped fader will be adjusting any selected audioclip unless frozen.

with clyphx you could make a standard setup where you use a selected number of keys to change the transposistion(fixed) of a selected number of slots or clips. anywho check out this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCFFIVCculI

hope this helps

[yur2die4]

You can also assign the 'play' button in an audio channel to a keyboard range. Then, whichever note you press transposes the clip for triggering.

[guyd]

Thanks for your tips. When you say smart mapping midi values to -12, is that done within Live or you mean on a midi controller? See it's for live performing - i want to record a line on tenor sax then drop it an octave to make it a bassline - preferably with one push of a midi pedal button.
am presently downloading clyphx.
Thanks also yur2die4, but i don't quite follow, would you mind elaborating a bit?

[MarkvW]

I think you could use a midi scale effect to do the transposition. You could then midi map it to fiddle with it, or you could drop multiple instances into a rack and approach it that way.

[yur2die4]

When you map any clip slot, whether MIDI or Audio, you can map it to a single key/note on a keyboard to work normally.

When you hold down that key, and hit a second key, that maps a 'range' in semitones of keys that triggers that clip. The difference now is that each key you press, retunes the clip to play at a different relative pitch. (essentially it bumps the clip's Semitone knob)

If you hold one note, then hit an upper, and lower note, then you are telling Live that the note you have been holding down first is the 'root' note, and the others are the range up and down.

It is fun to play with this using various Global Quantization settings, and Legato on/off. Fun to use for samples Or for songs (and MIDI clips! which can be even more fun in conjunction with Scale).

So that is a way to assign any individual clip slot.

When you go into MIDI Assign Mode, you get the extra play buttons that work for an entire channel strip. Those play the clip of whichever Scene is highlighted. If you map a keyboard range to that button, you can have several clips that you plan to transpose in one channel, and use Scene up/down to switch between them.