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I am coming to Ableton kind of backwards from the POV of a visuals creator, so apologies for what seem to me like pretty basic questions.

I made a little arrangement in Live that uses some beat repeat effects, and I would love to have the "repeats" trigger something in my visuals, which means I would need some kind of signal coming out of Live, like OSC or MIDI. I have two uneducated theories, but I don't really know how to achieve them:

1. I saw in some Connection Kit tutorials people using an Envelope Follower, and I thought I could combine this with an OSCSender. This seems possible, although I can't seem to figure out how to get the Envelope Follower to map to an OSC message. Also, ideally the solution would be cleaner than relying on audio analysis after the fact. I'd love to have the actual event from the beat repeat effect. Is this possible?

2. Perhaps there is some 3rd party beat repeat M4L effect that I could hijack and insert an OSC Out node into?

Second, is there any way to add arbitrary markers into clips that would trigger OSC events? I'd love to be able to mark up my percussion clips manually to send out OSC events to my visualization program.

Thanks in advance!

Hey Jeff,

You might have found out already, but for others who might have the same question:

This suite of free tools https://support.showsync.com/freetools/ ... troduction should be what you need. The AnalysisGrabber can do audio envelope following and triggering and convert to OSC.

Like you I'd be interested in mapping the beat repeat trigger directly to an OSC parameter but I couldn't find a way to do that. Let me know if you have found a way. Like you I suspect using a M4L equivalent of Beat Repeat might be the way forward here.

For adding arbitrary markers, you can use SingleNoteGrabber and map midi notes to osc events! If those midi notes don't trigger audio in your percussion clip then you're all set. If you want to map a kick to an OSC event you're also good

Cheers,

Jun