How to map Beat Repeat for Live Effect

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Philos
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How to map Beat Repeat for Live Effect

Post by Philos » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:19 pm

My goal is this: I would like to map beat repeat to a macro knob so that when I turn it, it turns on, then when I turn it down the effect stops. Using this live for quick glitches.

I've got the effect I want by mapping the knob to "device on" and setting the values to 1:0 so it immediately turns on when I turn the knob.

Unfortunately I get a click or pop when the device turns on and off and it disturbs the sound.

Any ideas on how I can map this to avoid the clicks??

Thank you so much, I've been working at this and haven't come up with a solution I like so far.
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Re: How to map Beat Repeat for Live Effect

Post by yur2die4 » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:28 pm

Other things you can map add the Chance and Repeat buttons, depending on the kind of thing you’re going for. If I recall, personally I usually used the Repeat button. But that might just be a freeze. And I don’t think you can get Chance to go between 0 and 100 within a single increment of a macro.

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Re: How to map Beat Repeat for Live Effect

Post by chapelier fou » Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:10 pm

Putting it in a rack with chain selector excluding the very first values will disable it automatically. You can add a fade in to avoid clicks if needed.
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Re: How to map Beat Repeat for Live Effect

Post by Philos » Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:11 pm

Other things you can map add the Chance and Repeat buttons, depending on the kind of thing you’re going for. If I recall, personally I usually used the Repeat button. But that might just be a freeze. And I don’t think you can get Chance to go between 0 and 100 within a single increment of a macro.
I didn't like chance but I never even considered using Repeat! Thank you so much! Going to give this a try.
Putting it in a rack with chain selector excluding the very first values will disable it automatically. You can add a fade in to avoid clicks if needed.
Oh shoot, never really spent time with chain selector so I never explored this. Thank you so much for this suggestion, I've got some playing to do!

So grateful to both of you for these suggestions, I searched and tried and couldn't come up with anything. That's why I love this forum.

Thanks again.
2017 Macbook Pro | Catalina 10.15.7 | 3.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 | 8 GB RAM
Live 11 | Focusrite 2i2 | Push 2

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