-------------From Jim:
I just upgraded to the REMOTE SL and dont expect to get nearly the results you do with your custom rig but I was wondering how you set the 1.)Volume Gate and the 2.) Track Repeats on the keys of the keyboard that sync up to controlling each track vs. individual clips. I downloaded your file and figured out the SCENE scrolling and the clip start button.
Just cant figure out how to get that transforming sound and the quick repeat when I am starting a track and not creating 50 clips for every single track.
It looks like it has something to do with the small track next to the track playing the clip that has the "SILENCE" clip in it.
-------------For Jim:
VOLUME GATING
The gating thing can't really be done with Ableton alone, but you can do a great fix with a free translator utility like MIDIpipe (mac) or MIDI OX (PC). The problem is that Ableton treats Note on messages as toggle commands. Try assigning a keyboard key to the mute or volume controls on Ableton's mixer and you have to hit it TWICE to turn the volume on and off. The easiest way I've found to change this toggle behavior, is to run your MIDI through one of the translator programs and simply tell it to take "Note off" messages and turn them into "Note on" messages. This way you get 2 Note On messages each time you hit a key, giving you momentary behavior instead of toggle behavior from Ableton. Make sense? You can also try to score a copy of Reaktor 5.1.2 or later and just download my fader+punch patch from controllerism.com
QUANTIZED AND NON-QUANTIZED TRIGGERING OF THE SAME CLIP
I've done this a few different ways, but here is my favorite. (it seems weird the first time you do it, but you'll get used to it) You must be familiar with the "scene control" things that show up at the top of the mixer ONLY when you are "editing key map" or "editing MIDI map". This only works in Ableton 6 or newer.
1) set global quatization to whatever you are comfortable with (I use 1-bar)
2) set up all your clips the way you want them, and set ALL their launch quantizations to "global"
3) create a silent audio clip and put one in each of the these tracks at the top of your session
4) set launch quantization for the silent clips to "none"
4) make a 2nd copy of EVERY SINGLE TRACK including EVERY SINGLE CLIP on those tracks. We'll call these new duplicate tracks "instants"
5) Select only these new instant clips and set their quantization to "none"
6) for each or the old tracks, set up one MIDI button to the track start (scene control) AND set that SAME button to hit the stop button at the bottom of the instant track. This means when you start a quantized clip, whatever is playing in the instant track stops at the appropriate time.
7) for each of the instant tracks, set up a different MIDI button to track start (scene control) AND set that SAME button to start the single silent clip in the old track. This means when you start an instant clip, the silent clip will cause whatever is playing in the old track to be silenced.
So, just to explain- the reason for the silent clip is essentially this: all stop buttons are globally quantized. To simulate a stop button that is NOT globally quantized, we just make a silent clip which can have a non-global quantization (in this example, none) and is in effect a stop button. To make more sense of this setup, I have all my instant tracks super-narrow and just to the left of the old tracks. This is a really nice way to visualize playback of the two versions of the clip. Also, it makes sense to bus the two tracks to a third track, and put your effects on that track so that you don't have 2 copies of all your effects.
Enjoy,
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