Automating Operator Preset to audio export.

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PitchedSineWave
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Automating Operator Preset to audio export.

Post by PitchedSineWave » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:32 pm

Hi I have created many Operator presets and I want to export them as one shot wav files triggering from C2.


Is there a way I can automate this process ? there are 300+ presets... Max for live ? any other option? I dont know any M4L, can anyone build this ? these sounds will be free soon.

any ideas thx!

TomViolenz
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Re: Automating Operator Preset to audio export.

Post by TomViolenz » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:44 pm

You have to drag and drop 300 times but beyond that it should be fairly simple.

For 128 at a time: Make a Midi track, insert Instrument rack. Open the chain view. Drop 128 presets one after the other into the Rack (selecting multiple and drag/drop doesn't work unfortunately). Go into the sel tab of the rack. Select all chains -> right click "distribute equally. Assign Chain selector to a Macro.

Make clip of the average length of your one shot. Loop it. Put a C2 note in it. Go to the envelope section and look for the macro with the ChainSelector. Make an unlinked envelope that is 128 times as long as your clip loop. And make an envelope that steps up from 1-128 over the whole range (that part will be a bit tedious, but you can reuse the envelope via copy/paste for your next 128 presets.

Now just make another Audiotrack. Turn it to receive audio from the Midi track, turn Monitor to in. And start the clip playback and recording. 8)

(if your computer can't stomach 128 Operators at the same time, you can also assign the On/off of each Operator to the range of the chain selector macro so that they only turn on when the chain they are on is selected)

PitchedSineWave
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Re: Automating Operator Preset to audio export.

Post by PitchedSineWave » Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:26 pm

Thank, that actually speeds up the process... then I would load the recorded audio into a slicer and voila!

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