Re: Echoloop VST MIDI controller

[Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com>]

yep. just frying a steak. i will eat that steak. and then i will send
on the ableton set to both of you.

r

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Phil Clevenger
> <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And Per, regarding this:
>>
>> "Instead you could set up a direct MIDI path into the Echoloop and feed 
>> it
>> directly from your external MIDI control gear. "
>>
>> Not sure what that means but it sounds damned sexy ! Can you clarify?
>
>
> Sorry, I took that for understood, as it is explained quite well in
> the manual that comes with Live and also is included within the
> application's GUI (the "Info View" box that can be kept open in the
> lower left corner. Any object you hover the mouse pointer over will be
> explained in that box)
>
> There are two ways to pipe external MIDI directly into a plugin hosted
> in Ableton Live.
>
> 1) Set up the plugin to listen to a MIDI In port.
> I'm not sure Echoloop will let you do that, so let's skip that for this 
> time.
>
> 2) Route incoming MIDI by Live's preferences settings and Live's mixer
> into the Plugin.
>
> MIDI comes in through the MIDI In port. Your MIDI interface's MIDI
> ports will be visible in Live's preferences setting's "MIDI Sync" tab.
> For piping a MIDI In port's data directly to a plugin (but through a
> Track) you need to set this MIDI In port as active for "Track" (there
> are also "Sync" and "Remote"). Then close the preferences window and
> chose a MIDI Track in Live's mixer. In this track's input slot you
> chose the appropriate MIDI In port (if you want you can filter to pass
> only one MIDI channel here). Set the track's Monitor to "In" (there
> are also "Auto" and "Off"). In the "MIDI To" slot select the MIDI
> Track where you have opened the plugin. Now, you may regard it tricky
> with an audio looping plugin hosted on a MIDI Track, how to get your
> audio input into the looper? Well, in Live the usual routing for that
> is to first use an Audio Track to fetch the signal from the physical
> audio input then send that track (by its "Audio To" slot addressing)
> to a Return Track. The good news here is that a Return Track's output
> can send to both Audio and MIDI Track's inputs.
>
> Happy looping!
>
> Per
>