Why are there no 'MIDI' LFOs in Live ?!?

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Post by Soma » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:37 pm

No one?

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Post by svivens » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:53 pm

Surely there is :D ,free MIDI LFOs can be added in Live,even Live5 :P
just drop an Usine VST free plug with LFOs,randoms,lines,envelopes,XY recordable pads... on an Ableton MIDI track and assign the output to a midiyoke port.then use it as a MIDIcc...

i do that on stage with the smart simplers i love.
i assign LFOs an randoms to sample start,that rocks!

what about Max/Msp in Ableton?

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Post by Soma » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:26 am

Soma wrote:Hey Robert,
you said Ableton can't :
-automation of parameters within a clip, and not just modulation.
( -> automation recording not just of MIDI CCs but all parameters from within a clip )
Why can't they just allow us to record the existing relative envelopes using the mouse or a controller?! For me the missing ingredient isn't if it is absolute, relative... whatever. The missing ingredient is that there is no life, no real playing, no humanist element to the envelope. Allow users to use their ears and instruments to create envelopes and you add so much more meaning and life to the music!
Ok so actually this is already possible if you don't mind taking a pain in the ass round about rout.

1) Record your clip to the arrangement
2) Record the automation of your parameter to the arrangement
3) Select the envelope
4) Copy envelope
5) go back to session view
6) Open envelope in clip for the parameter you just recorded
7) Unlink
8) paste
(repeat for each parameter)
9) Go back to arrangement
10) select your work
11) delete

No you have a clip that has automation you recorded. It is relative :) IF you want it to act absolute, just leave your parameter at the max.

Now why not just reduce the steps to this:
1) Click button to record to envelope in session view
2) Record automation
(loop for each parameter)

I do not care if it is a relative envelope (in fact I prefer relative).

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Post by Alien Leg » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:32 pm

Somas description of a workaround for the automation in session problem would be the perfect interim solution til the relevant structures of Live are going to be changed! (which will take quite a while as it seems). I tried working that way, but its too timeconsuming if you are using much automation.

So Abes please give us this "scripted" for- the- moment-solution that should be kind of easy to implement and shouldn't cause any problems cause it leaves every core intact!!!! This would be much better than its now!

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Post by Kodama » Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:57 am

Yes, please! Record modulation in session.

Just switch it on.

If we can draw modulation envelopes, there is no reason that we can't record them!


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Post by koneko » Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:18 am

Kodama wrote:
Just switch it on.
:roll:

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Post by Jekblad » Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:40 pm

i'd be happy with a switch for one or the other....
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Post by Kodama » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:54 am

koneko wrote:
Kodama wrote:
Just switch it on.
:roll:


It already works for non Ableton devices, and it works if you trick Ableton by using a routing utility. All they have to do is "allow" modulation to record from learned CC#'s on native devices.

Does that answer your elegantly stated argument ?
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Post by koneko » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:18 am

Kodama wrote:
koneko wrote:
Kodama wrote:
Just switch it on.
:roll:


It already works for non Ableton devices, and it works if you trick Ableton by using a routing utility. All they have to do is "allow" modulation to record from learned CC#'s on native devices.

Does that answer your elegantly stated argument ?
have you actually read the original post by RH? it just seemed to me that the problem lays deep in the architecture of the software. so nobody crippled it, or didnt "allow" it. it's like this with a reason.

i hear your pain though.

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Post by Kodama » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:28 am

Yes I did, but modulation and automation are 2 different things.
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Post by koneko » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:41 am

Kodama wrote:Yes I did, but modulation and automation are 2 different things.
see what you mean.. i mixed the two.. sorry

i will research the subject then :wink:

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Steim "junxion"

Post by sofalofa » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:42 pm

this can do it, amongst other things.





http://steim.org/steim/junxion_v4.html

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Re: Steim "junxion"

Post by koneko » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:22 pm

sofalofa wrote:this can do it, amongst other things.





http://steim.org/steim/junxion_v4.html
JunXion is very interesting. it's actually something i was long ago looking for.
i play with the demo and try to make live response to it (webcam > junxion > live) and it sort of jams live midi ports. not sure whats wrong. Live indicates midi trafic from JunXion but nothing reaches the track.

didnt mean to hijack the thread, just wonder if it worked for you, sofalofa

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Post by Kodama » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:25 pm

In my experience, there are always inherent usage/performance/stability issues with non-native solutions...
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Post by philipc » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:51 pm

Kodama wrote:In my experience, there are always inherent usage/performance/stability issues with non-native solutions...
So will Max For Live be native enough to make it workable dyathink?

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