Midi beat repeat - any hints ?

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earwax
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Midi beat repeat - any hints ?

Post by earwax » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:00 pm

Hi folks,
I'm a big fan of beat repeat, and live's midi effects, i wish there were a midi beat repeat built in, well maybe someday...

But for the time being, i'd like to know if you guys know a way way to get a similar effet, by combining some of live's plugins + maybe vst and whtanot...

I really need to get into bidule, that's probably quite easy to build in it.

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Post by The Phat Conductor » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:42 pm

midi delay could do some things...
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Post by austin_tacious » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:19 pm

copy and paste! More labor intensive but the results are better (usually)

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Post by earwax » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:39 pm

The Phat Conductor wrote:midi delay could do some things...
indeed, but i could only find one, which didn't work well...

any links ?

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Post by The Phat Conductor » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:58 pm

i just use the arpeggiator, and then set it to have a bit of decay on it so it kind of fader out a bit.

mostly just copy and paste unless there's a lot of note changing going on tough.

you on pc or mac?

there's this really sweet arp called arpimedes for pc i believe. i used it at a friend's place once and it was pretty sweet.

the cubase midi fx were awesome, but they dunna load in ableton unfortunately.

sorry i can't be of more assistance.

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Post by Machinate » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:27 pm

definitely just drop in an arpeggiator.
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Post by som[e] » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:28 pm

why not just drop a beat repeat on the midi track?

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Post by Machinate » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:12 pm

because beatrepeat doesn't process midi, only audio.
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Post by som[e] » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:19 pm

i dropped a beat repeat on a midi track and it works great. probably doesn't throw midi output, but if you want just audio output it seems to work fine. unless i'm misunderstanding the question.

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Re: Midi beat repeat - any hints ?

Post by tricil » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:31 am

earwax wrote:Hi folks,
I'm a big fan of beat repeat, and live's midi effects, i wish there were a midi beat repeat built in, well maybe someday...

But for the time being, i'd like to know if you guys know a way way to get a similar effet, by combining some of live's plugins + maybe vst and whtanot...

I really need to get into bidule, that's probably quite easy to build in it.
try the arpeggiator.
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Post by earwax » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:44 pm

the thing is, the arpeggiator sets the notes lengths to its gate setting, so you can't actually get a sequence to play ala beat repeat...
guess i'll have to wait for the abes to do something along the lines, or try to knock it up in bidule.

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Post by som[e] » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:56 am

there's a gate setting in beat repeat that sets how long the repetitions play for. what do you mean when you say you can't actually get a sequence to play? i know there's probably some simple thing i'm missing that would make me understand why you can't use it, but i'm just not seeing it.

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Re: Midi beat repeat - any hints ?

Post by sinnatagg » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:47 pm

The usual triggering of cutups in session view also works with midi clips. It's a little work to setup but it's probably closest to rummaging around with the beat repeat in real time.


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Post by Lo-Fi Massahkah » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:58 pm

som[e] wrote:i dropped a beat repeat on a midi track and it works great. probably doesn't throw midi output, but if you want just audio output it seems to work fine. unless i'm misunderstanding the question.
Well a midi track with a VSTi or a Simpler/Sampler/Operator/Impulse - which in turn makes the output audio. So, yeah - the Beat Repeat would work. But not in the way Earwax asked.

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