Triggering Sound Clips in Live with a mic??? HELP PLEASE

Nightrider · Post by **Nightrider** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:34 pm

OK Now I've been told it is possible to trigger clips in live with microphones. For example I have a contact mic on the floor and a mat over the top, when someone treads on the mat the contact mic picks up the sound and it triggers a clip in ableton live. Is this possible??

Apparently you can convert sound signla to midi signal?

Any help/clues would be very appreciated.

Thanks

NR

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:02 pm

Sure you can, but you need some sort of audio-to-midi plug for that and then either use that midi information through a loopback device to trigger clips or use it directly to trigger sounds in a plug in such as Impulse.

Try KTDrumTrigger:

http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

Nightrider · Post by **Nightrider** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:07 am

Thanks!!

Any other ideas?

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:12 am

http://www.plogue.com

bidule can do this type of stuff very well

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:23 pm

I use Bidule to launch lighting and video clips this way. Stick the Bidule plug-in on the mic track, and use the Bidule CC creator to auto-generate a CC when sound comes through the mic. MIDI-map this CC to your audio clip, and every time the CC exceeds 63, it will fire the audio clip. By playing around with the Bidule parameters, different sounds can fire different clips.

I do what you want to do with a wireless Playstation dance mat and PS>USB adapter. The nine pads can all be keymapped to whatever you want in Live.

Nightrider · Post by **Nightrider** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:03 am

hambone1 wrote:I use Bidule to launch lighting and video clips this way. Stick the Bidule plug-in on the mic track, and use the Bidule CC creator to auto-generate a CC when sound comes through the mic. MIDI-map this CC to your audio clip, and every time the CC exceeds 63, it will fire the audio clip. By playing around with the Bidule parameters, different sounds can fire different clips.

I do what you want to do with a wireless Playstation dance mat and PS>USB adapter. The nine pads can all be keymapped to whatever you want in Live.

Thanks for the in depth reply. so would I need to make this CC creator in bidule? or does it come as a pre-set?

zven · Post by **zven** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:06 pm

maxmsp should do it!

Lord Kahn · Post by **Lord Kahn** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:48 pm

I remember reading a post somewhere that if you plug a mic into a foot switch input in a keyboard or whatever and make a loud enough noise then it'll trigger. Don't know if that's any help to you because what you really want is a switch that outputs a midi note. How about stripping down a cheap Casio keyboard?

dudemandudemandude · Post by **dudemandudemandude** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:36 am

did you find a solution to this? I'm trying to do a similar thing...

Triggering Sound Clips in Live with a mic??? HELP PLEASE

Triggering Sound Clips in Live with a mic??? HELP PLEASE

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