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My need is to "reconfigure the footswitch in
real-time as (I) perform". I use Ableton Live as the patch librarian (and
executor, and legal counsel). I've now got a workaround that meets my need - e.g., having
a few different controls available on many different tracks in Ableton Live
while performing. Here’s an example of what it can do: ·
Assume you’re playing/recording on Track 1,
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4 or 5 of the 13 available pedals do things at
the “track-level” to help control the Ableton track behavior. o
But, you’d like to jump onto another track
(or perhaps 2 or 5 or 10 in succession) and have the same pedal controls on
each of them o
Clearly, you can’t support that with 13
pedals. You run out of pedals pretty fast. ·
My setup allows me to step on the “Next”
pedal with a single click, and Ableton then automagically… o
Disarms Track 1 o
Arms Track 2 o
Now “hears” the track-level foot
controller commands on the new track o
(in my case, it switches from a pair of tracks -
one for audio & one for midi – to the next pair of tracks) If anyone is interested, here's a synopsis of the
workaround. ·
Foot controller sends controller messages, which
I convert to note messages using MIDI-OX, on the way to Ableton Live. ·
I map track controls in Ableton… o
…to the foot controller “notes”
(e.g., “D” is “Arm”, “E” is “Launch”
etc) o
…where each track has it’s own octave
– e.g., D-2 (two octaves down from middle D) is track 1, D-1 is track 2,
etc. ·
I’ve set up a track in Ableton that has a
set of MIDI Pitch Shifters o
All are set to +12 – e.g., go up an octave o
All have their “Device On” mapped to
a MIDI note (e.g., A#), each in a given octave ·
Set up 2 clips in Ableton, one as “Next”,
one as “Back”, which “play” the note – A# - to trigger
the Device On of the Pitch Shifter ·
Two pedals on my foot controller are programmed with
Controllers to trigger the Next & Back clips ·
Then, for instance, if I’m recording on
Track 1, and I step on the “Next” pedal, it: o
Disarms Track 1 (e.g., the Next clip plays the
D-2 note, which toggles “arm”) o
Triggers the “Next” clip to turn on a
+12 pitch shift (e.g., the clip plays A#-2) o
Arms Track 2 (e.g., plays D-2 note, which is now
transposed to D-1, to toggle “arm” on the new track) o
And, when subsequent track-level pedals are
clicked – e.g., Launch, monitor, etc. – they are transposed up an
octave to the current Track. § E.g.,
the Foot Controller says D-2, but this MIDI note command is routed through a
pitch shift and becomes D-1, which Track 2 can “hear”. § So,
this is using the fact that MIDI notes can be transformed by MIDI effects, and
that there are a lot of octaves, to enable “patch changing” on the
fly. This is better than using different patches in MIDI-OX
(which also works) because it’s more flexible, can change more on the fly
and doesn’t require loading a a new set of patches to MIDI-OX every time
I tweak the setup. But, a patch changeable programmable foot controller might
also be a good approach, with a lot less of the MIDI spaghetti required to get the
above scenario working. If there’s more interest, I can put a diagram up on
a webpage somewhere. dh
-----Original Message----- > Do any of these controllers have remotely changeable
patches? The FCB and GCP support sysex messages to completely
change patches. I don't know if you can send them something that will
make them change banks though. Out of curiosity, what are you trying to
accomplish? Are you interested in making a patch librarian, or do you
want to reconfigure the footswitch in real-time as you
perform. Jeff |