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OK Now I've been told it is possible to trigger clips in live with microphones. For example I have a contact mic on the floor and a mat over the top, when someone treads on the mat the contact mic picks up the sound and it triggers a clip in ableton live. Is this possible??

Apparently you can convert sound signla to midi signal?

Any help/clues would be very appreciated.

Thanks

NR

Sure you can, but you need some sort of audio-to-midi plug for that and then either use that midi information through a loopback device to trigger clips or use it directly to trigger sounds in a plug in such as Impulse.

Try KTDrumTrigger:

http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

Thanks!!

Any other ideas?

http://www.plogue.com

bidule can do this type of stuff very well

I use Bidule to launch lighting and video clips this way. Stick the Bidule plug-in on the mic track, and use the Bidule CC creator to auto-generate a CC when sound comes through the mic. MIDI-map this CC to your audio clip, and every time the CC exceeds 63, it will fire the audio clip. By playing around with the Bidule parameters, different sounds can fire different clips.

I do what you want to do with a wireless Playstation dance mat and PS>USB adapter. The nine pads can all be keymapped to whatever you want in Live.

hambone1 wrote:I use Bidule to launch lighting and video clips this way. Stick the Bidule plug-in on the mic track, and use the Bidule CC creator to auto-generate a CC when sound comes through the mic. MIDI-map this CC to your audio clip, and every time the CC exceeds 63, it will fire the audio clip. By playing around with the Bidule parameters, different sounds can fire different clips.

I do what you want to do with a wireless Playstation dance mat and PS>USB adapter. The nine pads can all be keymapped to whatever you want in Live.

Thanks for the in depth reply. so would I need to make this CC creator in bidule? or does it come as a pre-set?

maxmsp should do it!

I remember reading a post somewhere that if you plug a mic into a foot switch input in a keyboard or whatever and make a loud enough noise then it'll trigger. Don't know if that's any help to you because what you really want is a switch that outputs a midi note. How about stripping down a cheap Casio keyboard?

did you find a solution to this? I'm trying to do a similar thing...