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Hello, Crew.

I'm wondering...


Is it possible to use the faders on the UC-33e (or any other usb controller that has faders) for note input, like a step sequencer?

I'd love to be able to select a step, use a single fader to select a note.

If Ableton doesn't allow this, does any one know of a plug in?

Thank you,
Jason D.

Plogue Bidule, I think someone here built a sequencer like that for it conny maybe?

screw bidule. If all you want is a quick and dirty monophonic step sequencer then you can do it yourself in Live - both v.4 and 5. Here's how, it's really quick.

*Set up 16 midi tracks.
*Route them all to another midi track - number 17.
*Make an empty one-bar loop in each of the top clip slots of the 16 tracks.
*In track one, do a 16th note on the first 16th. In the second track drop a 16th note on the second 16th and so on.
*play the scene. You should now see the lights running down through the 16 tracks.
*Now start dropping in lives pitch fx, one on each of the 16.
*Assign these to faders and or knobs.
*assign the on/off buttons of these tracks to either qwerty keys or midi controllers.
*if you want to, you can also drop a velocity plugin on each step. This will let you control the filter in simpler for instance.
*And of course drop a scale plugin on the "master" midi track.

EDIT: You can find the als file for this neat trick in this thread:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

oh, and the beauty of this setup is of course that you can record all these sequences as midi. Should I do a setup that demonstrates this?

Machinate,

Wow, that's a very clever solution. I appreciate your help.

THX,
Jason D.

ya welcome, mate. It's good fun, too - and it's dead-easy to grab clips and save them.

alright party people, limited time only, first come..., here's the .als.

http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IL9 ... W7ULCFZ4CG


Oh, and it's live5 beta only, sorry guys.
Andreas

Cool! I'll try that right away!

/Mikael

Andreas, could you post that file again or send it to me and I'll stick it on my serverspace?

cheers

wow, forge - cool bump!

I'll upload it in a while - I'll update it with a wicked sound I'm working on.

actually dont worry, I've sorted it...amazing thinking there ace

cool trick to play with - only I'm not sure how I'd use it, but one of those ones that is just fun little practical application.

unless you have some suggested usage??

ok..would like to hear it with a cool sound and how you use it

Alright: I'll describe my use of it before doing another upload:

I use it together with a behringer bcr2000 - it has 32 rotary encoders and 16 buttons with some kind of status indicator. I use the top two encoder rows to set the pitch of each step (by tweaking the pitch plugin on each of the tracks) and the bottom two rows I use to change the velocity of these tracks (by tweaking a vel. plugin on each track) The buttons toggle mute for each of these tracks. So I can basically have a clear view of Note on/off, pitch and velocity of 16 tracks/steps with just one preset on the bcr.
I route all the midi to a synth (most often through a scale plugin) and then I tweak until I like the pattern. I can then capture this pattern with yet another midi track, and save a series of tweaks as clips for later use. I'll add a bunch of clips to this upload as well, so you can get a feel for the types of sound that come from this. Also a couple of the covert operator clips in SoundWrecks are made like this.

Machinate wrote:Alright: I'll describe my use of it before doing another upload:

I use it together with a behringer bcr2000 - it has 32 rotary encoders and 16 buttons with some kind of status indicator. I use the top two encoder rows to set the pitch of each step (by tweaking the pitch plugin on each of the tracks) and the bottom two rows I use to change the velocity of these tracks (by tweaking a vel. plugin on each track) The buttons toggle mute for each of these tracks. So I can basically have a clear view of Note on/off, pitch and velocity of 16 tracks/steps with just one preset on the bcr.
I route all the midi to a synth (most often through a scale plugin) and then I tweak until I like the pattern. I can then capture this pattern with yet another midi track, and save a series of tweaks as clips for later use. I'll add a bunch of clips to this upload as well, so you can get a feel for the types of sound that come from this. Also a couple of the covert operator clips in SoundWrecks are made like this.

coool...sounds interesting, I was doing it with a UC-33 - I just found changing the pitch wasnt exactly an exact science - quite hard to change one semitone - but I'll try the velocity and recording to another midi clip - I didnt think of that so I suppose that makes sense for a good hands on way of writing a clip

very very clever thinking!

hey forge, definitely use a scale plugin on this, that reduces errors quite a bit. And yeah, the uc-33 makes it pretty difficult to hit exact values. Doesn't matter much with a scale plugin, everything will sound good