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Re: Echoloop VST MIDI controller



Ricky, Per - 

All is well - Echoloop is working as it should, all commands from LG are 
heard and everything behaves wonderfully.

Very best,

Phil :)



On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Ricky Graham wrote:

> Ended up grilling it with some vegetables. A good choice.
> 
> Glad the set works.
> 
> R
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Phil Clevenger
> <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow - thanks so much Per and Ricky.
>> 
>> Ricky, your file tests well and perfectly illustrates the solution. And 
>> I
>> bet your steak was delicious :) Can't wait to get home later and do the 
>> real
>> work with incoming MIDI from the LG.
>> 
>> Per... THANK YOU ! Yes there is a reasonable explanation in the abstract
>> about MIDI routing in the manual. And in the help, rollover and 
>> panel-bound.
>> But this kind of application of MIDI command assignment is one I have 
>> not
>> come across before, so it did not occur to me that this was a *routing*
>> issue. I spent easily 8 hours poring over the old EDP assignment texts, 
>> the
>> updated Echoloop assignment texts, Ableton's assignment texts in the 
>> manual
>> and helps, searching LD and other internet forums, checking my work in 
>> the
>> Gordius, engaging in some trial and error in case the manuals were in 
>> any
>> way erroneous, trying out different MIDI pref settings, and so on. Was 
>> not
>> at all sure this was an Ableton problem anyway... (meanwhile my wife 
>> keeps
>> popping in and poking me for 'geeking out,' asking why I don;t just 
>> 'pick up
>> the guitar and play some freaking songs...lol )
>> 
>> SO you see I thought this to be an assignment or compatibility issue, 
>> rather
>> than a routing issue. I could have spent another eight hours and still 
>> not
>> found the explanation, because I was looking for the wrong solution !
>> 
>> And in the end, Per, your explanation is so much better than those in
>> Ableton... For instance, read the text for the Track/Sync/Remote prefs 
>> in
>> the rollover help, unless you are a MIDI pro they make little sense. 
>> Your
>> explanation has helped me to grok that for the first time :D  Maybe you
>> should write their manuals :)
>> 
>> So huge thanks to you folks. I am sure there are others who will also
>> benefit from this exchange here besides just me. What on earth did we 
>> ever
>> do before the interweb?
>> 
>> Phil :D
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ricky Graham 
>> <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sent
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Ricky Graham
>>> <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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