Re: Switching Echoloop VST Params Using Ableton Dummy Clips

[Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Many thanks Per. Between your comments here, your legacy stuff on LD, and this fine article: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb09/articles/livetech_0209.htm#Top , I've made a lot of progress.

Have my IAC 'patch bay' up and working.

Mapped Korg nanoPad2 pad to a MIDI clip in the MIDI track, the pad is triggering the clip. MIDI track is monitoring IN in Auto mode.

The clip is sending a number of known echoloop/edp DirectMidi notes designated in the piano roll.

MIDI track out is set to IAC bus 1, ch 1.

Loop VST is in adjoining Audio track.

What I seem to be missing somehow are these two things:

1) How is the Midi note conveyed to the plugin in teh adjacent Audio track? Because the plugin is not hearing it :)

2) Is there something I need to do withe the "Midi Ctrl' Envelopes menu for the MIDI clip in question?

So much silliness :)  I am thinking of trying that Kapture plug in, but it will only capture snapshots, not discrete changes, so I'd really prefer to get this working :D

Phil :)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Phil Clevenger
<phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote:
> One question: what is the role of the IAC bus? Ableton should let me direct
> MIDI directly to the plugin, yes?

On a Mac computer the IAC Bus is part of Core MIDI, ie the built-in
MIDI support. A "virtual MIDI patchbay", if you so like, inside the
Mac OS X. If enabled in OS X the IAC Busses show up among all other
available MIDI ports inside Live's preferences. Note that you have to
activate it also in Live for the functionality you want to use it for.
To enable the IAC Bus on the computer you need to launch "Applications
/ Utilities / Audio MIDI Setup" and look for the right box to tic.

Good luck

Per