Mute and Solo automatable in impulse

amo · Post by **amo** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:11 pm

I don't know if that has been addressed before, I couldn't find it threw a search.
It would be lovely to be able to automate the mute and solo of impulse, very handy for live situation if one doesn't like to create an audio track per slot.
Don't you think ?

Regards,
amo

Omsk411 · Post by **Omsk411** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:37 am

I've been asking for the same thing for the very same reasons. It makes so much sense to have remote control over those two parameters that I'm really puzzled why the geniuses at Ableton would have missed this. They've tricked out the program so much for live performance and live composition that this is a glaring omission. Making 7 extra audio tracks in order to gain MIDI control of the mutes is not an easy or efficient workaround.

Let's keep our fingers crossed...

Soma · Post by **Soma** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:55 pm

Please let us automate impulse mute and solo!

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:26 pm

and then ofcourse multiple solo's..
that's also a thing I'am missing right now..

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:44 pm

Soma wrote:Please let us automate impulse mute and solo!

You can...
Use 8 pitch plugins in a midi rack that filter out notes.
MIDI mute

Much better then audio mute imo.

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:58 pm

hoffman2k wrote:
Soma wrote:Please let us automate impulse mute and solo!
You can...
Use 8 pitch plugins in a midi rack that filter out notes.
MIDI mute
Much better then audio mute imo.

i do respect your help and advice you've been giving us all,
but please no workarrounds for this one..

but thanks for the tip anyway..

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:05 pm

Poster wrote:
hoffman2k wrote:
Soma wrote:Please let us automate impulse mute and solo!
You can...
Use 8 pitch plugins in a midi rack that filter out notes.
MIDI mute
Much better then audio mute imo.
i do respect your help and advice you've been giving us all,
but please no workarrounds for this one..

but thanks for the tip anyway..

Fair enough

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:58 am

hoffman2k, what did you mean with "8pitch plugin in a rack" ??

you mean your precious device which is there : http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=
?

if not, i'm interested by a new solution

but if you mean that: I JUST THANK YOU ABOUT THAT!
it works fine.

I use it as a chain in another big rack for live performance.
works so fine!

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:25 am

Hi Julien,

If you look at the dates of posting, you'll notice that most of this is for Live 5.

As of Live 6, you can simply use a "Dummy Rack" to be able to control Mute/Solo by MIDI. Its part of the MIDI Effect pack we recently released, but its super simple to make.

You just create 8 chains in a midi rack with no devices on the chains. You set each chain to a note that is equal to the impulse. (C3, D3, E3....)
Now you can assign MIDI button to the Mute/Solo buttons in the rack.

In my opinion, this works better then if Ableton would actually implement it on the impulse. Because you would be cutting of the tail of your sounds. By muting the incoming midi, you can prevent that.

Cheers

- Bjorn

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:50 am

yes!
I know and use it already
my poor english wasn't enough to understand what I meant

indeed, I hope they'll implement it for the last release!!

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:57 pm

I meant I used Simpulse !
(http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=)

I made a mistake in my link before...

that I use is Simpulse!!
(thx to hoffman2k for the idea ...again!)

Palox · Post by **Palox** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:52 pm

Hey Ableton,
please automate impulse mute and solo!

Pleas, Please, Please!!! :/

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:28 pm

Yeah !!!

I don't know why they don't make that...

mr.ergonomics · Post by **mr.ergonomics** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:21 am