OS2 using audio track locators for live fun.

legs mechanical wrote:imagine being able to set the amount of time in bars/beats before the locator makes the jump after you press the pad. itd be all abletoney.

abletons awesome like that, its so simple and even saves the computer cpu some resources! all the while giving the user a tight onbeat way of cueing samples.......

its lik ethe old days of radio, where they'd have 'carts' with idents n jingles.......i used to abuse 'on the air studio' (mac os app - for radio 'cart' use.... before ableton was even a twinkle in the eyes of the guys who wrote that 'live') for this very purpose.

"ah them wert'dayz", now of course everything piss easy.

i'm not sure recording it as midi data would be possible b/c the data would be stored inside the song that you're doing the jumping around in. would create a wicked feedback loop or just keep stepping back after the first move i'd imagine.

legs mechanical wrote:i'm not sure recording it as midi data would be possible b/c the data would be stored inside the song that you're doing the jumping around in. would create a wicked feedback loop or just keep stepping back after the first move i'd imagine.

thats what i meant before when i said.....

" the mpc couldn't 'use' a 'play' event from a recorded pad event if its stopped. but i sure could use a 'stop' pad event when its playing."

--------------
thats what i meant before when i said.....

" the mpc couldn't 'use' a 'play' event from a recorded pad event if its stopped. but i sure could use a 'stop' pad event when its playing."
-------------

heheh.. right on.. i spent a good five minutes trying to parse that statement out and just gave up..

legs mechanical wrote:--------------
thats what i meant before when i said.....

" the mpc couldn't 'use' a 'play' event from a recorded pad event if its stopped. but i sure could use a 'stop' pad event when its playing."
-------------

heheh.. right on.. i spent a good five minutes trying to parse that statement out and just gave up..

yah yah - all these word things, theyre all the fkin same!

legs mechanical wrote:i don't know if this has been covered, but i've been getting some interesting results creating a dummy audio track (just record nothing for the length of the sequence) and putting locate points in different spots (usually like 1 and 4 [a kick and a snare] or whatever...) to do some very interesting live stuff by just popping in and out of different points in my entire sequence (since everything goes to the locator point instantly). its like having the jumping around functionality in seq change but WITHIN a sequence. thought someone might find this of use.

edit: turns out you don't even need to record a dummy track, just put points in the empty audio grid.

that's amazing shizz! thanks.

now i would really feel for note repeat possibility to retrig the locations in same sync with the sequence itself.

peace

Mesak wrote:now i would really feel for note repeat possibility to retrig the locations in same sync with the sequence itself.

excellent idea!

we should request this.

slave synced machines don't seem to stay in sync, which was not very suprising tho disappointing...

what 's the problem? ive got my mpc slaved to logic and digital performer in the past with no hitches.

but there often needs to be a tweak to your setup, what u using generally?

rB)

i think i was unclear:

i meant MPC master, other stuff slave. then slave machines just go on while you tap the location pads. tempo actually in slave jumps up a bit if you hit MPC pads rapidly.

would be sweet if MPC would sent start/location when you hit them pads... or am i being stupid? feels utopic.