quandry wrote:glu wrote:
quandry this site is awesome. thanks for the link. do you know of any specific plugs that live doesn't like, or which ones Live loves?
I am running on windows... not cool like spiderman running on windows though.
anyone here for that matter using any of these plugs with Live on a PC?
I'm windows pc to the core, and all smartelectronix plugs I've ever tried have worked flawlessly in Live, except livecut (which is still in beta). My favorites (in order) are livecut, supatrigger, dfx buffer override, supaphaser..scrubby and skidder can be fun too.
FORGE--have you ever had livecut cause wierd things to happen? I've put it on my master effects chain before, and assigned a few of my controller knobs to livecut, and more than once, my other master effects settings on other effect devices (knob positions, etc.) will all jump wildly to random positions and totally eff up my sound. I can't seem to figure out why livecut would do this, but I know it is livecut--I've performed scores of gigs with this same setup without livecut, and whenever I put it in and am having a fun time messing with it, this weird behavior happens, with it seemingly effecting well over then parameters on other effects in the chain, as if it were sending midi out to the other effects in the chain or something? Ever had this happen? I haven't had this problem with livecut on tracks where it is the only effect, so it seems to happen when livecut is part of an effects chain.
Ryan
Ryan
Livecut is solid and I've played with it live with no probs
BUT - if you use the on/off button to operate it I do get probs because it might take time to get the signal then process it
the solution is the "utility trick" on the sends
create 2 return tracks and on the 2nd one put a Utility plug-in with the invert preset to phase invert
then put livecut on the 1st return and set the send of the 2nd return (with utility on it) to the one with live cut on it - so the utility is sending 100% to livecut
then on the track you want livecut to work on turn up the send to 100% to the return with utility on it
basically what this does is sends to utility which phase cancels the signal so you get silence, then sends the signal to livecut so livecut works on the inverted signal which of course sounds the same to you
then you can set the sends on the tracks you want to effect to keys on your computer keyboard so that they go from 0-100% in one button press
for example, in my live set I have 4 group tracks acting as four master channels on a DJ mixer A,B,C,D - then I have all my tracks of clips routed to one of each - in order so I know whats what
then on each of the group tracks the send that is going to the utility track I have assigned z,x,c,v so if I want to run livecut on track A then I hit z and so on.
I also have set up the same with Gltich which I've put on the same return as livecut and set B,N as their respective on/off switches so if I want to use glitch instead of livecut on the particular tune then I hit the B & N keys at the same time to turn one of and the other on, then I still use z,x,c,v on the tracks
although last night I was playing round with just assining a,s,d,f to livecut and z,x,c,v to glitch and leaving them both on - but I'm not sure yet if I prefer it that way - I kind of like not having them both switched on at the same time just for CPU and stability etc - although I havent had problems
I actually saved this setup as my template now so I can use my UC-33 straight away like I do live but for producing - so as soon as I start on a tune right away I have control via the UC-33 of volume and EQ over 4 master tracks right away.
