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Re: best interface/controller for mobius/Live
On 7 aug 2006, at 07.16, mark sottilaro wrote:
> My FCB1010 is as programmed as I think I want it, but
> there are lots of times I'd like to be able to control
> aspects of Live via some knob/fader style device... my
> hopes and dreams would have it be able to display my
> perameters as I change them, but there's always my
> white electrical tape...
>
> What are people using for such things? I feel like
> I'm mousing around far too much. Has anyone tried
> NI's KORE? I know it's for VSTi's but I'll be using
> them inside of Live too.
That's an important question you bring up here. For a while I was
thinking about it a lot, trying to find out the best solution for
visible display of my looping actions. But then it suddenly hit me
that you can also take the opposite view, by only implementing those
function/actions that are already existing your active musical mind -
i.e. part of your improvisational imagination. According to this
method you should keep on viewing the tech rig as an instrument;
closely tied up with your body and instincts. And only induce new
functions as you rehears them to slowly make them part of your unique
flow. Personally I find that take more musically creative and I guess
I will stay with it.
BAck when I was using Live I tended to address your question by not
just binding the midi events directly to the graphical display of the
functions. Instead I set up a MIDI clip containing the event (or a
clip envelope) to be sent either directly, or though the IAC Bus
(yes, that was on Mac) to control the actual function. Then I kept
one scene for each controller clip and made the binding from my MIDI
controller (mostly the FCB but also others) not to the actual MIDI
clip but to the scene. Ok, "why all this?" you may ask. The point is
that the scenes are launched by activating the slots on the master
track and these slots can be explicitly named. This means whatever
pedal or button I pressed the corresponding scene would come up on
the display with my own label of the function.
Greetings from Sweden
Per Boysen
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