UC33e USERS - Setups / Tips & Tricks

domkane · Post by **domkane** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:45 pm

Good effort! Liking the buttons idea... Gonna look into mine now

JacksinMS · Post by **JacksinMS** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:28 am

Somewhat related to this topic: the buttons on the UC 33 were too unresponsive for me but I loved having all the knobs so I surgically attached it to my Trigger Finger.

I mostly use the pads to navigate around & the top knobs are linked to custom eq/delay/utility chains for each of the 3 tracks I 'dj' with. The UC Knob Army on the right covers a ton of fx from beat repeats & looping to reverbs & bit crushing.

Best part, it's mic stand-mountable!

8O · Post by 8O » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:50 am

^^

Good grief! Does it work, is it portable, does your music sound as mad as your constructions?

Have to say, I'm impressed with this level of butchery and duct tape.

JacksinMS · Post by **JacksinMS** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:57 am

LOL thanks! It still fits in my gig bag but the only thing that really made it less portable is the 3lbs of tape that was added on.

This was my first attempt to butcher my gear & was actually really easy to see how the different cords connected the circuit boards together. Heck, I could probably put the whole thing back together but that'd mean unwrapping all that tape...

Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:49 am

! Holly Cow !!! a Frankensteinazed Midi controller...

JacksinMS · Post by **JacksinMS** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:00 am

Despite re-wiring & squeezing everything inside an Xbox 360 packaging... it's alive!!!

Yall might have noticed the white paint on the knobs. The one thing I can thank my ex-girlfriend for is the suggestion to use reflective white nail polish on the knobs after I complained about not being able to see what the position of the knobs were during a gig. That $2 fix from a $5 hoe really helped out!

patrickkidd · Post by **patrickkidd** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:34 pm

yeah, the white paint is important, so is using tape to label what everything is mapped to.

I use two identical tracks, each with knob 1 on a bass kill and knob 2 on a treble kill built from a single EQ-3, and knob 3 on a gain from the Utility effect. I use my laptop's trackpad to select the scene and track, and the enter key to trigger the sample. Pretty simple, very effective, and I could re-build it in 5 minutes.

Now I just have to figure out how to play all my own tracks and instruments in it. Maybe I need another machine.

patrickkidd · Post by **patrickkidd** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:14 pm

Oh, and the more personal Flair you can stick on your equipment, the better. Tape, paint, and love are all readily available.

8O · Post by 8O » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:04 pm

Ok, so I posted this already in another thread, but I just wanna share the love... Here's my "wood" UC-33e. Currently relying on memory to remember what all the knobs and buttons do, but am working on transparent acetate sheet overlays for Live, Traktor, etc...

JacksinMS · Post by **JacksinMS** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:09 pm

Wow. If that had wheels it'd be a Lexus.

shred · Post by **shred** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:21 pm

Hi all !
I've just found this topic and it's very interesting. I just had a question : do you use enigma to set up everything or do you do it manually through the midi map mode directly in live ? Live's midi map seems limited when compared to enigma.
I tried to find a tutorial to map everything through enigma but I didn't find anything.
For example @ Domkane, how can you tell Enigma to assign the selection of channel 1, 2 and 3 with buttons 1, 2 and 3 ? I know how to do it through Live's midi map but I would rather do everything through enigma... by the way I do not want to use presets, I want to add things manually...

Thanks for your help !

bob123 · Post by **bob123** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:32 pm

i gave up trying to learn uc33 for the time being.

gonna have to tackle it all again soon.......sigh......

Nick Shepherd · Post by **Nick Shepherd** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:45 am

this is my mixing template on the uc... decks 1-3 are identical in terms of eq&fx of course....

in addition i use my launchpad for clip launching and flashy lights

works good for me

misiu · Post by **misiu** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:29 am

Nick Shepherd wrote:this is my mixing template on the uc... decks 1-3 are identical in terms of eq&fx of course....

in addition i use my launchpad for clip launching and flashy lights

works good for me

kewl!
how do you select a track?
can you map a button on your midicontroller to do this?

8O · Post by 8O » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:17 am

misiu wrote:kewl!
how do you select a track?
can you map a button on your midicontroller to do this?

Hope it's ok to jump in: when you enter midi map mode, the title bars of each track become midi-mappable, so you can assign buttons to each one. I assume Nick has done that here.

I can't remember if track selection is also programmable automatically via the remote surface instant mappings... I think not, afaik.

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