Need guidence oh wise message board peeps

Needs2Know · Post by **Needs2Know** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:08 am

Ok... I still havent bought ableton Live just waiting for the money and I need to get my head around what it is I'm going to do with it. What I'm thinking might be the best approach for me is to record wav files of all types and then shape them into audio loops in Live(ready to use in live). But heres the problem, I want to use my G4 and Live to control my external groove box along with my K-Station synth and eventually Sherman filter bank and then drop in the sampled looped wav files into the mix to experiment and come up with the track. and then from there it would just be a matter of getting all the midi files and audio files lined up in the arangement view and walla! BT eat your heart out!

Question though, how much controling can a G4 with Ableton Live 5.0 do to the devices I have? On my groovebox EMX-1 the 10 drum parts are on one midi chanel while the 5 synth parts are on their own channels. I'm soo confused at how this is going to all work!

So the mother-load question that I would really appriciate some help on is:
How am I going to make my laptop the puppetier of my external devices? In other words how will I go about making midi loops? I understand the basic midi concept but im wanting to record(in midi) really complicated sessions. Live can just pull the samples from the computer, but I'm going to need 3 devices to be running at the same time and I dont have enough hands for that.

czechchap · Post by **czechchap** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:58 am

I only run a Juno and a machinedrum from Live and I've not really had any problems with it - well not once I'd set up the midi delay compensation.

Midi generally gets a bit flakey when you add more and more modules to the chain, I'd be curious to read other people's experience with this as well.

Robin

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:10 am

Read the manual of your groovebox on how to connect it midi-wise and get yourself a midi interface or souncard with midi capabilities. Easy as pie! Just read the manual!!!

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:18 pm

LIVE will have absolutely no problem doing what you want. I currently have 20+ external synths set up with a MOTU MTP USB AV. Your issues will be purchasing a midi interface (i recommend MOTU - very reliable) and learning the "ins and outs' of Midi it's very straight forward.

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:12 pm

why do you want to plays the midi files from live ?
you can just sync the box to your pc & use the sequencer of the groovebox for your paterns .