Re: Pedalboards talking to Mac (Live)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 30 maj 2006, at 22.49, Ian Henderson wrote:

> Thanks, Per. I'll check out midiStroke - I'm being a bit lazy here,  
> because I haven't really checked out the midi implementation in  
> Live that much, but do I need to translate midi to keystrokes in  
> Live, or can one set up midi control messages to do most things you  
> need?


Depends on what things you need ;-)  ?

Recordiing audio input for static looped playback can be done, but  
you need midiStroke to get at it from MIDI foot pedals, as well as  
getting at the delete button to pull off a "undo" function.

Sound-On-Sound style overdub layering looping with feedback control  
has not been possible with Live, unless you run the excellent tape  
delay simation AU plug-in Augustus Loop as "the looper". That's  
really cool because you can also play the pitch of the loop by MIDI  
(MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar or simply sending MIDI notes from pedals).

Since Live 5 there is also the built-in Ping-Pong Delay that now  
comes with a Freeze Loop function. Look for the little "F" in the  
plug-in window and assign any MIDI event to switch the Freeze Loop on  
or off. I think you can only get two bars but feedback overdubbing is  
working fine.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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