yepyep. i know, once again i disappeared into the void we know as the internet. ofcourse i have been busy, and you will perhaps get a post or two about it when the time is right, but until then i just wanted to say that i a: updated the blog a bit so its easier to overview (i know i should have done that a long long time ago, sorry about that) and that b: i took some shit from some racks, threw them together and made a guitar rack that sounds absolutely wonderful. since i figured that i should atleast update the blog with something of value, im including this rack here to save face *cough*.

got a pre eq in the front, a rack filled with some shit in the middle, and a multibander in the back, labeled tone control. although its not tecnically tone control, it can be used as one, hence the name.

http://nwrecords.com/storage/racks/effects/Amplifire.adg

yeah. i know i know, i havent been writing anything in ages but wth people, i too have a life (yeah right O.o).

however, some guy on the ableton forums gave me an idea for my old pre-live8 hack to get submix folder tracks. anyways, now we can group tracks and everybody is way happy about that, except a couple of users who realised that grouping tracks within tracks is just what we need. atleast this is what the feature request forums says.

well. the submix track hack still works, but now you can group it within a group. why would you want to do that?

as always the most logical reason is "why not?", but you can for example make a bunch of effect groups (banks or whathaveyou) with dummy clips with, say, a bunch of follow actions, then just place all those groups inside a group, and you can launch all of them via the grouplaunch button aswell as minimize the whole into one track only..

ofcourse you can do that while just grouping all tracks up to one group, but then you loose the organisation benefits + you loose the routing benefits.

the routing benefits? yeah, the routing benefits.

see, this way you can send audio to any chain in the rack, as opposed to the standard way of only sending to the track, which inturn sends the audio it recieves through all the chains. hardly optimal, is it?

this picture explains it all really.

as you can see, you cant route audio through a selected chain of your choice, however you can route midi like that

(or in the picture, audio via a custom plugin that just works as an audio throughputter;))

yes yes yes, i know you can do this with an audio rack and a chain ruler, but the difference is that with the chain ruler you can only have the output of the chains that are currently in the selected zone; this outputs everything as separate channels that you can route either to the group master out, or to other separate channels or whatever you want. it gets put to good use for organisational purposes but you can get very creative with it, so play around with it for a while ;)

since i recently switched to osx i played with screenflow, so heres a very cute little video of how to set it up, aswell as what you

can do with it as an example. the links to the plugins etc is at the youtube page.

did you know that you can map stuff in live to a keyrange?

no? well, its quite simple; you enter midi mapping mode, hold down the lowest note you want then the highest, and this will be your range. (note that you have to have your midi keyboard set to remote input).

why am i telling you this?

because this is what we will talk about today. you can set a keyboard range to anything that you can map in live infact.

not only that, but if you map midi clips it will change the root note of your midi sequence, keeping everything in tune; something you could have a hard time doing using a midi pitch plugin + a scale plugin. very nifty. makes transposing stuff on the fly so much easier, dont you think?

if you want to set a root note for your sequence upon clip launch you hold down the root, then the lowest in the range, then the highest. now heres the fun part: it affects audio clips aswell. not only that but you can map the actual clip launch/clip stop to a keyboard range so you can have a couple of clips as a follow action and then you can repitch them as you go. which brings us back to the sexy granular stuffs post a couple of weeks ago, because this technique can ofcourse be applied here aswell.

theres nothing much to say about this really. videos works better. heres me playing a bassline (and some other crap) using follow actions and the cliplaunch/clip stop range mapped to c-1 to c-2. i have quite some latency so its pretty messed up in the beginning (and lagging at that -.-) but what the f*ck, its just a demo anyways. as you can see, this can be quite expressive and not only fun to play around with but also more as a live approach then most of the other stuff weve talked about:

ofcourse, you could also use it to glitch things up and resample the glitches (or whatever) like this for example; mapped the master tempo (from 20 bpm to 999) to the same range as the beat sample, and set the beat to texture mode while mousing around on the grain (as we talked about in that sexy granular stuffs post).this is great for just general sounds and whatnots and perhaps not so great for beats and shit like in this video but id rather be less subtle then not when demonstrating shit ;) well, that was fun. now go make some noise damn you. - gbsr.