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man, what a great thread, this is giving me so many ideas... thanks
everyone.
Sylvain
On 6/5/09, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote:
> At 9:57 AM +0100 6/5/09, Simeon Harris wrote:
> >
> > so is it possible to play a midi clip by sending it a pc message?
> >
>
> Eyup! :)
>
> > i see you can either loop the clip or have a one shot....one step at a
> time, i guess!
> >
>
> Yeah, I was saving all that for the last part of the configuration.
>
> First, get the MIDI clip working the way you want it to work.
>
> Next step is easy. Just assign a MIDI message (e.g. program change
> perhaps?) to fire the clip, the same way as you'd fire an Audio clip from
> such a message.
>
> Select the MIDI Bindings button again. This time, click on the MIDI clip
> you wish to fire. Now send the program change you want to use to trigger
> that clip. A new binding should now appear on the left side screen,
> reflecting the connection between your PC and firing the MIDI clip.
>
> So when you now exit the MIDI Bindings mode, you should be able to fire
>the
> clip merely by sending that specific PC message on its specific MIDI
> channel.
>
> Some other thoughts, caveats:
>
> Don't forget that the clips (usually) fire according to the quantize
>value.
> That means that if the quantize is set for one bar, the clip will wait
>until
> the bar boundary to fire. This may be useful (stack up a bunch of
> individual clips that wait and then all fire off at the start of a bar,
>for
> instance) or not ("why doesn't this @#$! button work right when I press
> it"). If you want to turn this behavior off, you could set the quantize
> value to "None". This might cause problems with other clips, since that
> value is global, but you should be able to change the quantize value of
>an
> individual clip within its edit pane.
>
> If you're working in Session view, you can only have one clip playing in
> each vertical column at a time. However, you can have multiple clips
> playing in a left-right row. As a matter of fact, if you click one of
>the
> clip slots under the Master track, it will fire every clip in that row at
> the next quantize boundary. You should also be able to bind those Master
> slots to a MIDI command, so you could conceivably use a single PC
>command to
> initiate a half-dozen MIDI clips simultaneously.
>
> If you wished, you could change the clips you're using on the fly by
>merely
> moving them in and out of different rows (while binding your Program
>Change
> to the row clip, rather than individual MIDI clips). This is especially
>nice
> while composing, since you can try different combinations of MIDI clips
> without having to redo their MIDI bindings, or mess around with
> reconfiguring your foot controller. Just swap different clips in or out
>of a
> row and fire it.
>
> Okay, there's a little more food for thought. Hope that helps a bit!
>
>
> --m.
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