Free Crossplatform Midi LFO Plug

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:10 pm

Check this thread:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... sc&start=0

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:06 pm

it's 52 pages... could you maybe summarize or post a link or something?

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:51 pm

oh i see, he's updated the first link with the newest files

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:46 am

good god!

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:58 am

Have you gotten this working in Live yet?
I haven't been able to get any output.

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:02 am

That piz guy is really cool. His synthedit synths are really twisted fuckers

Another LFO/Seq alternative for OSX is Numerology.

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:32 am

Kodama wrote: Another LFO/Seq alternative for OSX is Numerology.

This is where i'm probably gonna go if the live/cycle74 deal doesn't give some thing up that is ready made. From tying bits and pieces of net-fomation together its my understanding that that particular collaboration is going to produce another new product separate from live MAX/Msp. To that end Numerology 2 is looking very cool.

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:27 pm

So, anyone got this working?

chevthewizard · Post by **chevthewizard** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:20 pm

yeah, i got it working, it's very cool! you have to send midi out of ableton and back in again so you can 'map' it. i used the IAC driver on my macbook.

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:23 pm

ethios4 wrote:So, anyone got this working?

Yes! Midi plugs have to be an instrument in OS X, so:

- Put the LFO by itself in a midi track

- Make a new midi track (for simplicity), drop a 3rd party instrument that supports midi learn (I used U-He's free Triple Cheese)

- Set the instrument's Midi From to the track that the lfo is on

- Make sure Live is playing

- "Learn" the LFO's midi message on the instrument using it's protocol. Triple Cheese just uses a right click.

- You can of course use a separate Midi track to route the lfo to the instrument so you can leave the instrument's track free for keyboard input, etc..

To use a native Live device, the story is not so simple.

You have to use a midi loop back device to route midi out from the LFO then back into Live, then you can midi learn the LFO's signal.

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:26 pm

How are you getting the MIDI out? I'm running windows, so I use MIDI-yoke instead if IAC, but it should still work. When I put the plugin on a MIDI channel the output selection changes to "Audio Out" instead of "MIDI Out", so there's no way to tell the output to go to MIDI-yoke. If I create another midi track and tell it to get it's input from the midi track with the LFO on it, I get nothing.

chevthewizard · Post by **chevthewizard** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:34 pm

ethios4 wrote:How are you getting the MIDI out? I'm running windows, so I use MIDI-yoke instead if IAC, but it should still work. When I put the plugin on a MIDI channel the output selection changes to "Audio Out" instead of "MIDI Out", so there's no way to tell the output to go to MIDI-yoke. If I create another midi track and tell it to get it's input from the midi track with the LFO on it, I get nothing.

Yeah I think I had to create that second midi track - then you set the output to MIDI-yoke? The mixer fader should light up but only one circle (CC). Oh and don't forget to set Monitor to 'IN'.

siliconarc · Post by **siliconarc** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:49 pm

glamourboy posted about this a few months back.
he did a good step by step setup guide too:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=95247

fmpfilms · Post by **fmpfilms** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:21 pm

I wish that LFO could be randomized and then the possibilities for textures would be ENDLESS!

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:29 am

Well it has a few random waves...