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by Guest » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:43 am
Montrealbreaks---this is cobbled together from various posts, and a bit windy, but it answers a few of your questions...
My live sets have tons of key and midi assignments, and lots of effects, but they start off each night totally blank with no clips whatsoever. Then its up to me to start recording clips/loops and build up each tune one layer at a time using a 1010 foot pedal, basses, keyboards, and a midi Drumkat that I use to record beats into FL STudio which I have rewired to Live. The other member of the duo plays guitar while all this goes on, and I often loop him. Usually within 2-3 minutes I have 3-4 loops going (bass, key pad, key melody) and a full drum loop going. Then its fun time with effects, sends, and crossfades bringing things in and out and tweaking the sounds.
The 1010 I have set up to trigger recording and playback for clip slots, one of each of the 10 for 9 tracks in Live. The 10th pedal I have mapped to the delete key on the keyboard via bomes midi translator, thus allowing me to delete flubbed loops I'm recording live with a foot pedal, and keep playing my bass/guitar/keyboards. Thats all I have on the 1010 right now, I've thought about setting up some patches on another bank with the 1010's exp pedals tweaking effect parameters, but I haven't needed it yet. You could definitely use it to fire scenes, clips, as a makeshift, non-velocity sensitive kick drum sample trigger, and with bomes midi translator you can map a lot of editing commands (copy, paste, etc.) to pedals. I even use the 1010 when I'm runnig a CAD program to do complex key commands. The beauty of the 1010 is its programmability, coupled with Lives flexible midi routing and midi ox/yoke/bomes (or midipipe and some midi to keystroke translator on mac), you can accomplish almost anything you want. The 1010 can send all sorts of midi commands at once-you can do 5 program changes, 2 control change commands, two control change exp pedals, and one note on/off with a single press of one patch, so no need to translate program messages--just program the 1010 to do exactly what you want.
As far as my live Live set, I have four slots for recording my clips, one for the guitarist, and 5 tracks for drums (kicks, hats, snares, rides, percussion). That way I can effect each drum sound differently and also crossfade them in and out to strip down or build up the beat.
The guitarist uses effects so usually I record/loop him dry. Live 3 is the bomb in this category as I can drag his looping clip that is playing to another track and his sound never really stops. I've started using the DM2 controller to scratch audio I'm recording using FL's scratcher as well--the DM2 is the best $30 I've spent--the free midi software is really deep. I've had a bit of fun with dfx's scrubby as well with the DM2. The joystick rocks for Live's x-y effect screens, and you can save a bunch of DM2 scenes to have the joystick be routed to many parameters in Live. And the cross fader with transformer buttons is fun--tapping rhythms on the transormers is cool.
I'm realizing that for performance having lots of hardware control options with one hand and the mouse with the other (i use an external cordless mouse, screw the touch pad) offers a lot of real time tweaking possibilities to really sculpt the sound. I'm looking forward to getting berhingers knob box to have knobs for all my sends, pans, and faders all at my fingertips at once. The more you can get hardware that does what you do with your mouse, the faster you can flow--especially when you are two handing with hardware and mouse.
Ryan
