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thefool wrote:the most annoying thing in live: the hidden built in limiter.

mike@TrackTeam Audio wrote: To dive in a little deeper...
For each track set the Main Racks Chain Ruler to your MIDI keyboard say from C-2 to C2. Then create a chain in the main rack for each MIDI note. Here you would have 48 chains, C-2 to C2 has 48 notes. Map the macros or the main rack to the all macros of the children racks. So now when you turn macro 1 on the main rack macro 1 on all of the child racks will turn.


1. Map the Main/Parent racks macros to the 8 knobs on your controller. Now whenever you hit a note it will always bring up/select that Racks macros. All other chains macros will twist but since they are not selected via chain audio doesnt pass through them...

To use this on more tracks

1. Set up your MIDI controllers banks to output the same CCs and Notes but a different channel for all of them so:

bank/Preset 1 will send out on chan 1,
bank/Preset 2 will send out on chan 2,
bank/Preset 3 will send out on chan 3, ......


3. For each track set the parent/Main Racks chain selector and Main Macros to respond to a different channel. So, by switching banks on your MIDI controller you can now access any Macro you want

forge wrote: yeah I dont know - we discussed the issue at both camps and I certainly didn't come out any clearer as to why they cant do it - just that it was a big PITA to put it in and they might never

if you could have a button to choose between relative and absolute then you could decide whether you wanted to have it work as it does now, or have any automation played by a clip overwrite the Arranger automation
...

forge wrote: I guess you could put a copy of the rack on every track and use the ALT+down trick to select the device - Angstrom's jsut cooked up a script in Glove PIE for doing that but mac users could probably find something like Bomes for that

thanks!

mikemc wrote:

forge wrote: I guess you could put a copy of the rack on every track and use the ALT+down trick to select the device - Angstrom's jsut cooked up a script in Glove PIE for doing that but mac users could probably find something like Bomes for that

thanks!

mac users can use midistroke, and for stirring up everybody, forge should do just what he is guessing here, give it back to mike@trackteam for distribution on his website for $US 5 a pop and work out the split later .

forge wrote:

mikemc wrote:

forge wrote: I guess you could put a copy of the rack on every track and use the ALT+down trick to select the device - Angstrom's jsut cooked up a script in Glove PIE for doing that but mac users could probably find something like Bomes for that

thanks!

mac users can use midistroke, and for stirring up everybody, forge should do just what he is guessing here, give it back to mike@trackteam for distribution on his website for $US 5 a pop and work out the split later .

he he..yes Mike has taken the wind out of my sails a little with that dynamite, but I do still feel I would like the focus of Live 8 to be all about the real time stuff -I think it will, or I hope it will

the automation stuff they have confirmed is high on their radar will go a long way to helping that

If I download the first alpha/beta/whatever of Live 8 and see an absolute/relative button in the Clip envelope box I honestly worry I will cease to exist as my work on this earth will be done

sweetjesus wrote:- CUE Points within tracks... the folks at Ableton seem very unaware of how important this is and I've had the heads of Ableton personally say this is not a required feature..

hoffman2k wrote:

sweetjesus wrote:- CUE Points within tracks... the folks at Ableton seem very unaware of how important this is and I've had the heads of Ableton personally say this is not a required feature..

Funny stuff. That feature is actually in Live. It just requires a lot of hacking to make use of it. Amazing what you uncover with an API project.

sweetjesus wrote:I'm almost depressed to post these yet again but..

As a DAW:

- The ability to coehesively use dual screens

- Keyframing ... if you want to create a filter sweep.. go to where you want the sweep to start, press the "keyframe" button and set the filter to the position it should start from, press the keyframe button again so it sets it.

Then proceed to go to move the track marker to where you want the sweep to end and press the "keyframe" button. Adjust your filter to the setting you wish it to end on and press the keyframe button again for it to set the keyframe.

- Bezier curves on automation.. . . . .


As a performance tool:

- CUE Points within tracks... the folks at Ableton seem very unaware of how important this is and I've had the heads of Ableton personally say this is not a required feature..

- Buttons to select positions on a macro instead of a dial so we can have some presets which we know what they are and are able to be called upon at will

- Real-time step xox style sequencer input with parameter feedback

- Navigation of devices/contextual selection using a midi controller

davec1 wrote:I'm not happy with the way live handles this stuff either, the lack of program change support for native devices, no configureable hotkeys, very limited user scripts (8 encoders, 8 level faders, 16 sends knobs...) etc...

but here's an idea what you could do:

create lots of user scripts for control surfaces and lock them to various devices in the set....