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It's great to fall in love with 'old' Live features now and again.

i hate the resonator. if only you could play the notes.

chevthewizard wrote:i hate the resonator. if only you could play the notes.

You can set a range of notes on a keyboard to the root note...
but yeah, no chords.

I have used this to great effect in the past and I have been sleeping on it for a moment. Thanks for the reminder, I need to play with this more.

anamexis wrote:You can set a range of notes on a keyboard to the root note...
but yeah, no chords.

I love the Resonator too, but I can't get my keyboard to change the root note. D'you care to tell us more?

gibheid wrote:

anamexis wrote:You can set a range of notes on a keyboard to the root note...
but yeah, no chords.

I love the Resonator too, but I can't get my keyboard to change the root note. D'you care to tell us more?

Certainly.
1. Go into MIDI map mode, and click on the root note knob.
2. Hold down two notes on your keyboard corresponding to the range of your keyboard you want to use.
3. In the MIDI mappings editor, set the range of this mapping to correspond to the range on the keyboard. You have to input numbers to easily get exact settings. C2 = 48, C3 = 60, C4 = 72, for example.)
Voila.

Note that these keys are MIDI mapped, so they will be taken over by this mapping regardless of armed tracks or anything - to use the keys normally, you have to unmap them.

nice, I didn't know that!
is the new vocoder playable by MIDI?

anamexis wrote:Certainly.
1. Go into MIDI map mode, and click on the root note knob.
2. Hold down two notes on your keyboard corresponding to the range of your keyboard you want to use.
3. In the MIDI mappings editor, set the range of this mapping to correspond to the range on the keyboard. You have to input numbers to easily get exact settings. C2 = 48, C3 = 60, C4 = 72, for example.)
Voila.

Thanks anamaxis, I'll look into this!

SimonPHC wrote:nice, I didn't know that!
is the new vocoder playable by MIDI?

It doesn't have an onboard carrier generator that resembles a proper MIDI synth. It does have a white noise and a single tone (well, little tricker than that) and a self-modulate option.

And of course it has an external carrier option. Group tracks and this work really well together IMO. You can create a 'vocode' group with 'mod/vocode' and 'carrier' subtracks and just collapse the group when not editing parameters. This makes more sense and is much more flexible than having some underwhelming onboard synth.

I love the resonator effect. Its great when I want to have a doctor who moment. Whack a ring mod on there too and live is complete

xherv wrote:

SimonPHC wrote:nice, I didn't know that!
is the new vocoder playable by MIDI?

It doesn't have an onboard carrier generator that resembles a proper MIDI synth. It does have a white noise and a single tone (well, little tricker than that) and a self-modulate option.

And of course it has an external carrier option. Group tracks and this work really well together IMO. You can create a 'vocode' group with 'mod/vocode' and 'carrier' subtracks and just collapse the group when not editing parameters. This makes more sense and is much more flexible than having some underwhelming onboard synth.

Damn, I need to get that beta...