Re: Mobius in Live.

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:07 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> an anyone help me finish my installation of Mobius into Live?


Try the setup below that has proven to work fine for many. It differs
a bit from your resent concept.

Follow this shortlist for how to set up Mobius as tempo master in Ableton
Live. I'm only covering settings that matter for the synchronization
here.

In Mac OS X:
1. Open "Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app"
2. "Window/Show MIDI Window"
3. Double-click the icon "IAC Driver"
4. In the window "IAC Properties", make sure at least one IAC Bus port
is enabled.
5. Close the Audio MIDI Setup.

In Ableton Live's mixer window:
1. Open Mobius plugin on an Audio Track.
2. In this Audio Track's "Audio From" slot, select "A-Return".
3. If you intend to use multiple parallel Mobius looper output tracks:
Create as many audio tracks in the Live mixer as you want to use
separate outputs of Mobius looop tracks (maximum 7, since the first
track that hosts the Mobius plugin will provide audio output from
Mobius track 1).
4. Set them all to "Monitor = In".
5. For each one of the Live Mixer tracks you have to hold down the
mouse inside the slot under the "Audio From" header and chose the
appropriate Mobius output track.
6. At the left top corner, enable the box named "EXT" to tell Live
that it is to work in slave sync mode.

In Ableton Live's Preferences:
1. In the Audio Tab, configure the physical inputs and outputs you
need.
2. In the MIDI/Sync Tab, enable "Sync" for the "IAC Bus". Click the
little triangle and make sure it is set to MIDI Clock rather than MTC
(MIDI Time Code).
3. For MIDI control inputs, enable "Remote".

In Mobius:
1. Open "Mobius/Configuration/Presets".
2. Under the "General" tab: "Mute Mode = Start", "Round Mode" enabled,
"Interface Mode = Loop".
3. Under the "Switch" tab: "Switch Quantize = Cycle".
4. Under the "Synchronization" tab: "Sync Mode = Out", "Mute Sync Mode
= Send Stop/Start stop clocks", "Out Sync Realign Mode = Retrigger
Loop".
5. Also under the "Synchronization": Set the Minumum Tempo and Maximum
Tempo to a range that covers your playing (I use Min=61 BPM, Max=120
BPM). The blessing of this is twofold:(1)  It allows you to also start
with an extremely short first loop or an extremely long first loop and
still get the calculated tempo (sent into Ableton to hook up with)
within your show's convenient tempo range and (2) no tempo dependent
effect plugins will fuck up because they can't coup with a sudden
extreme tempo.
6. Open "Mobius/Configuration/Global Parameters" and make sure
"Monitor Audio Input" is off (not ticked).
7. In "Mobius/Configuration/Track Setup", make sure all tracks fetch
signal from "Plugin Input Port 1" (you have to select first "1" at the
upper bar of eight tracks and then adjust the drop-down menu down left
at "Plugin Input Port:". This way you set all eight tracks to "Plugin
Input Port = 1").

8. Open "Mobius/Configuration/MIDI Devices":
- as "Plugin Output" chose "IAC Bus".
- as "Plugin Input Devices" chose the physical MIDI In port where your
pedal comes in, the MIDI pedal you want to use to control the looping
in Mobius (this is "direct snagging" that
side-steps Ableton's normal MIDI routing and makes Mobius work as
smoothly as a simple EDP).

You can carry out these preferences settings in Mobius standalone, if
you like. If doing it in the Mobius plug-in you open the Mobius plug-in's
menus by right-clicking, or cntrl-clicking, the Mobius GUI window.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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