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Some great ideas floating around here, Per! I didn't think about setting up midi clip templates. Cool idea! I was just going to save my rack of instruments as a Live set, and bring it up as a default set. In order to do that, I had to expand my Delta 66, so I added a 1010. Now I can bring in each instrument to a Live track. (got that idea from you - thanks!) I'm using Live 4 built in effects on the audio input from Pioneer's 1000 mk2 DJ CD player, so it should work with the EDP. I was researching some stuff in the L-D archives, and was fascinated with all the early posts (from Kim, et al) re: DJ's and looping and sampling. I was looking for some ideas for using the Pioneer 1000 mk2 as a musical instrument within Live, and I got several, but I have to agree with one of the posts that said how amazing it is, that creative DJ's get the sounds that they do. Has anyone heard or seen DJ Shadow's latest Live CD and DVD? For my tastes, it a real masterpiece! Thanks for all the help, everyone! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Per Boysen [mailto:per@boysen.se] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 10:35 AM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Live 4 and the EDP On Aug 15, 2004, at 7:04 PM, Tom Rex wrote: > Thanks, again, Per. That got me where I wanted to go! > > What I wanted to do was trigger midi commands to the EDP via the > computer keyboard thru Live 4. > > So, based on your previous advise, I mapped some computer keys to the > midi clips within a track. I then double clicked on those midi clips, > and did a few midi sequences to push the midi virtual buttons, which > then got the lights flashing on the EDP! There is some latency, so I > hade to set the quantitize in Live to 1/32, or none. > > Wow! That's really powerful stuff! Especially for computer based > music. > > Tom > Aha, so you're actually sequencing EDP actions. Cool! I've only done that once with EDP and Repeater and then I was just playing back an improvisational performance where a computer had recorded EDP source audio together with foot controller MIDI messages. This was just a workaround because I did not have five inputs to the recording maching (1 EDP + 4 Repeater). It took some time to recreate the performance but after a while I ended up with the complete improvisation separated in Logic on five channels. I'm now designing a laptop based looping system with Live 4 as "mixer". One idea for EDP as well, as Augustus Loop AU plug-in, is to take advantage of the new midi clips of Live 4 and set up template midi clips as "dynamic fx racks" for the loopers. I once noticed that if you send volume changes (some midi cc sweeping) to the EDP when in overdub mode, this sweeps will become part of the loop on the next round. So you could in fact use midi foot pedals to launch Live midi clips with different "beat pattern tremolo effect settings" as you are looping away on the EDP. This trick has to stay on my to-do-list for a while though. Next thing to try out here is using Live 4 built in effects on the audio input from the EDP and setting up a useful scheme for FCB1010 control (got to keep reducing options all the time to keep things playable). All the best Per Boysen --- http://www.boysen.se http://www.looproom.com