essential tricks i've learned

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by tricil » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:57 am

Grappadura wrote:
tricil wrote:"supatrigga crossfade" :


Assign velocity to any perimeter you can (you gotta use your ears on this one) on the instrument.


have fun.
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Great ideas in this post! But how do I assign velocity to other perimeters than the velocity itself?

THX.
it depends on the instrument... look at some of the drop down menus in simpler, operator, or impulse for starters.
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Re: Probs

Post by tricil » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:11 am

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Post by tricil » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:14 am

oh and if you want the supatrigga settings, it's default with granularity at 8, and slow probability set to 0%
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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by Trypset » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:02 pm

care to post a pic of the setup on the return channels? I can't open to .als file due to being on Live Intro. Thanks!!
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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by The Phat Conductor » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:30 pm

A simple one, but good...

Set your BPM to halftime when you play your melodies... then speed it up and have a listen...
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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by spiral » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:29 am

The Phat Conductor wrote:A simple one, but good...

Set your BPM to halftime when you play your melodies... then speed it up and have a listen...
kinda like this / half your BPM but run your drums at 3/4 or 2/4 time

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by The Phat Conductor » Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:38 pm

nope.

just slow ableton right down to halftime, play your midi, and then speed it up again and have a listen.

this technique really kicks ass, especially when combined with scale plugins :D
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Post by elektrische » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:02 am

tricil wrote:here it is
Got ur suppa trigga preset. haven't tested yet.
tell me though, why do you set up ur eq in such way?

thank you!

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by djliamtate » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:59 pm

Well I have to say, when I bought my APC40 and Ableton I knew that I was moving into the right direction. I had no idea about EFX like this though. Mind blowing. Why do so many people diss Ableton hey?

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by outershpongolia » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:18 pm

djliamtate wrote:Well I have to say, when I bought my APC40 and Ableton I knew that I was moving into the right direction. I had no idea about EFX like this though. Mind blowing. Why do so many people diss Ableton hey?

dhb
Cause they're salty that they use Fruity Loops but they don't want to admit it :lol:

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by The Phat Conductor » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:01 am

FF1 mode on the compressors doesn't click when you sidechain.

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Re: essential tricks i've learned

Post by flippo » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:15 am

that supertrigger fade is great for master FX sends!

I was using a rack on the master channel, and having midi clips to automate various mute and gain parameters in effects on the chain to achieve big master verb swells and other dramatic master FX like that, but I think this is much more elegant.

you can just have clips to change the from FX to FX and use the X-fadder for much nice control than relying on utility gain envelopes.

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