Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

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Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

Post by vincent_2 » Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:02 pm

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow?
Right now it seems only possible to set the input from the preference panel, where only the audio interface inputs are available.
What I would like is to process an audio input (coming from a microphone, not a audio-clip) before using it as a tempo follow input.

Is there any better way to do this than sending my track's output to one of my audio interface analog out, then looping that back to another input ?
This sounds a bit clumsy and overkill to require two I/O of my audio interface just for that purpose...

Thanks for any advice!
Vincent

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Re: Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

Post by doubleUG » Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:04 pm

copy the text, open Live > drag in empty M4L device > open Max editor > paste > save M4L device
https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignett ... ng_patches

https://doubleUG.bandcamp.com/releases

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Re: Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

Post by vincent_2 » Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:39 am

@doubleUG Thanks for the link. I was hoping for a (preferably free) solution with Live's native tempo follower.
Besides it does not work with Mac M1 processor, which I am using.

Any other ideas?

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Re: Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

Post by Venetian » Tue Jun 09, 2026 12:07 pm

is there anything wrong in setting the track to Leader?
do you know about this?

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Re: Output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow ?

Post by [jur] » Tue Jun 09, 2026 4:17 pm

vincent_2 wrote:
Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:02 pm
Does anyone know if it is possible to use the output of an audio track to control the Tempo-Follow?
Last time I tried it didn't work. It was clearly disturbing Live and putting it into some kind of a loop that would make the tempo slowly decrease, infinitely.
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