Anybody using fxpansion GURU with Ableton?

[Dibubba]

If so... have you made it output pattern information into a MIDI Track, and how?

I was just about to spend the money on it when I discovered that it doesn't seem to wanna do that!

[ToneDunce]

It can't output midi at all as far as I know. But you can take your pattern from Guru and drag it into any midi track in Live. The only prob's that its a bit buggy right now, can cause an "assertion failure" sometimes when you do that.

[Dibubba]

I tried it, just as you said, TD... and you're right - it crashes the program every time!

It's a damn shame that these developers (fxpansion, etc.) don't try this stuff before they release it. I got burned like this once before with Native Instruments (early Spektral Delay in SONAR 3), and swore never again. A few years later, it was Groove Agent in SONAR 4.

I thought that was SONAR's fault, and switched to Ableton... and now look at me! Yeesh!

[OvertoneZero]

Oh damn, good thing I read this thread, I was just about to buy Guru.

BUMMER, DUDE!!

[Dibubba]

Overtone: Glad I could help, and yep, it's a bummer.

I've since bought Battery, and it's fantastic.

The one thing that Battery won't do (that I really wanted) is to allow me to create Patterns... but Ableton can do this, so I'm working around it. The real drag with using Ableton to build patterns is that you need to remember what drum is what note. It's a pain - but damn, it sure sounds good once you invest the sweat.

If you're using a Handsonic, let me know and we can trade techniques.