Comments on: Two Crazy Ableton Live Sets, with Mario and Animation; Send Us Yours! http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:22:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sah http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527942 Sah Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:35:29 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527942 nice! i'm still trying to learn more about music production, never really thought it is possible to create animation with ableton! nice! i’m still trying to learn more about music production, never really thought it is possible to create animation with ableton!

]]> By: Bjorn Vayner http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527318 Bjorn Vayner Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:25:59 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527318 I posted part 4 of the creation process of my set yesterday: http://www.covops.org/index.php/The-CovOps-Blog/The-Live-Set-Part-4.html It comes with a video that shows an experimental application I wrote to get more sense and use out my BCR. The cool thing is that I may be able to adapt this app to be suitable with most MIDI controllers out there. Parameter Feedback is only useful on controllers like the BCR, but I guess the labels will come in handy when there are some familiar layouts to work on. 16 pads + 8 knobs comes to mind. Most audio software has 'soft takeover" these days, so it might be fun to play from other controllers too. So I am now mainly focusing on how I will control my set. This application is an interesting side project, because it started out as a solution to a totally different problem which I've also solved now. Here's the scenario: You're about halfway thru your set, you improvised a bit and realize that the current values of parameters in your set are messy. This may mess up some songs. An often requested feature is the ability to store and send "snapshots" with values for specific songs to Live. An "initialize song" button if you will. The BCR application is built upon the mechanism that collects snapshots from Live. Which is as simple as a [ctlin] connected to a [jit.matrix 16 128]. Fun fact: when you load a Live Set (or turn MIDI Learn on/off), Live sends out all the values of all the currently assigned parameters out of the remote output. - Bjorn I posted part 4 of the creation process of my set yesterday: http://www.covops.org/index.php/The-CovOps-Blog/The-Live-Set-Part-4.html

It comes with a video that shows an experimental application I wrote to get more sense and use out my BCR.
The cool thing is that I may be able to adapt this app to be suitable with most MIDI controllers out there.
Parameter Feedback is only useful on controllers like the BCR, but I guess the labels will come in handy when there are some familiar layouts to work on. 16 pads + 8 knobs comes to mind.
Most audio software has ’soft takeover” these days, so it might be fun to play from other controllers too.

So I am now mainly focusing on how I will control my set. This application is an interesting side project, because it started out as a solution to a totally different problem which I’ve also solved now.

Here’s the scenario: You’re about halfway thru your set, you improvised a bit and realize that the current values of parameters in your set are messy. This may mess up some songs.
An often requested feature is the ability to store and send “snapshots” with values for specific songs to Live. An “initialize song” button if you will.

The BCR application is built upon the mechanism that collects snapshots from Live. Which is as simple as a [ctlin] connected to a [jit.matrix 16 128].

Fun fact: when you load a Live Set (or turn MIDI Learn on/off), Live sends out all the values of all the currently assigned parameters out of the remote output.

- Bjorn

]]> By: rhowaldt http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527255 rhowaldt Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:42:51 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527255 the mario/space invaders one is about as brilliant as it gets. employing a high-end software DAW with lots and lots of capabilities for playing and composing all sorts of music, to create another picture of Super Mario in pixelart. a bit (haha) like using a Vaio for making a campfire. isn't that what true life is all about? the mario/space invaders one is about as brilliant as it gets. employing a high-end software DAW with lots and lots of capabilities for playing and composing all sorts of music, to create another picture of Super Mario in pixelart. a bit (haha) like using a Vaio for making a campfire. isn’t that what true life is all about?

]]> By: Captain Howdy http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527220 Captain Howdy Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:49:31 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-527220 The Mario/Space Invaders one is about as stupid as it gets. The visuals are completely arbitrary, in that they are obviously not even triggering the music that is being played. The Mario/Space Invaders one is about as stupid as it gets. The visuals are completely arbitrary, in that they are obviously not even triggering the music that is being played.

]]> By: manuel http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-526803 manuel Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:54:18 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/22/two-crazy-ableton-live-sets-with-mario-and-animation-send-us-yours/#comment-526803 Hello. This is a work in progress, the idea is, in the same computer, perform image and music in real time, but with no need to monitor both. The same (midi) controls are modifying music and image variables. If you can make music with Ableton, the visuals would perform as well. Hello. This is a work in progress, the idea is, in the same computer, perform image and music in real time, but with no need to monitor both. The same (midi) controls are modifying music and image variables. If you can make music with Ableton, the visuals would perform as well.

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