Fine Pitch control in IMPULSE

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geofferd
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Fine Pitch control in IMPULSE

Post by geofferd » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:15 pm

Plesae all laugh at me I cannot believe this has taken me 3 years to discover.

I knew that holding ALT key when making paremeter adjustments in live increased the controls resolution. For years I didnt think this applied to the transpose control for IMPULSE presumed it was a limitation of the audio engine and there is no visual feedback of fine pitch control. But last night I found out the ALT key does make fine adjustments!

I was just about to buy a 3rd party drum synth mainly for this one fundamental purpose, now i can make percussion tracks with some sort of harmonic content for no additional ££s I am so happy thanks ableton.

j2j
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Post by j2j » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:55 pm

I am using impulse for all my drums as well.


:D :D



Actually, I'd love too see impulse, get an impulse 2... But, Ableton did drum racks...

However, I'm very keen on impulse.


:lol:
too many lasers...

andrewbrewer
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Re: Fine Pitch control in IMPULSE

Post by andrewbrewer » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:39 pm

geofferd wrote:Plesae all laugh at me I cannot believe this has taken me 3 years to discover.

I knew that holding ALT key when making paremeter adjustments in live increased the controls resolution. For years I didnt think this applied to the transpose control for IMPULSE presumed it was a limitation of the audio engine and there is no visual feedback of fine pitch control. But last night I found out the ALT key does make fine adjustments!

I was just about to buy a 3rd party drum synth mainly for this one fundamental purpose, now i can make percussion tracks with some sort of harmonic content for no additional ££s I am so happy thanks ableton.
another handy trick, and this seems to work well with many of the abe controls -- you can type a decimal value into the control ... the decimal won't display, but the control will still use the exact value you typed in.

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